Free Spaces, Collective Identity, and the Persistence of U.S. White Power Activism

“It is just SICKENING”: Emotions and discourse in an anti-immigrant discussion forum

“…Secondly, the Internet is a way for right wing organizations to recruit members across geographic spaces (Burris, Smith, and Strahm 2000;Gerstenfeld, Grant, and Chiang 2003). Further, the global nature of the Internet leads right wing individuals to feel connected to something bigger and more important, because the movement is not operating on just the local, but the national level (Futrell and Simi 2004). This in turn reinforces the belief that their ideology is widespread and not radical, as they can find Web sites and other people who share their ideas (Futrell and Simi 2004;Gerstenfeld, Grant and Chiang 2003).…”

“…First, the Internet provides a space where right wing organizations can disseminate their ideology when mainstream media refuse to do so (Adams and Roscigno 2005;Futrell and Simi 2004;Sohoni 2006). Secondly, the Internet is a way for right wing organizations to recruit members across geographic spaces (Burris, Smith, and Strahm 2000;Gerstenfeld, Grant, and Chiang 2003).…”

“…Further, the global nature of the Internet leads right wing individuals to feel connected to something bigger and more important, because the movement is not operating on just the local, but the national level (Futrell and Simi 2004). This in turn reinforces the belief that their ideology is widespread and not radical, as they can find Web sites and other people who share their ideas (Futrell and Simi 2004;Gerstenfeld, Grant and Chiang 2003). Social media becomes a place where people can form collective identities, where belonging to the group reinforces perceptions of having moral virtual selves.…”

Camouflaged Collectives: Managing Stigma and Identity at Gun Events

“…For these organizations, complete social acceptance is an impossibility. Examples of core stigmatized organizations identified in the academic literature include men's bathhouses (Hudson, 2008;Elwood, Greene & Carter, 2003), brothels (Blithe & Wolfe, 2016;Wolfe & Blithe, 2015), or white power organizations (Dobratz, 2001;Futrell & Simi, 2004;Simi & Futrell, 2009). The very nature of these organizations induces outside stigma.…”

Collective Agency and Community Resilience: A Theoretical Framework to Understand Agricultural Resistance

“…Prefigurative politics refers to the construction of alternative political systems that are democratic and include processes of self-reflection. Also referred to as "everyday utopias" (Cooper, 2009), placebased alternative practices (Escobar & Harcourt, 2005), and alternative experiments in everyday living (Futrell & Simi, 2004;Polletta, 1999), these political systems involve several progressive components, including free spaces and democratic representation.…”