2024/01/01 by Kathleen M. Blee, Robert Futrell, Pete Simi · 1 voice · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
paper · doi:10.17813/1086-671x-28-4-435
openalex publication_date 2024/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/27
Reflecting on long-term intensive ethnographic fieldwork, we sketch a “constellation” framework for understanding U.S. extremist white supremacy. Rather than tracing fluctuating people and organizations to explain the persistence of white supremacist extremism, we suggest that focusing on a core set of practices, ideas, and emotions offers a more complex, nuanced, and useful interpretation. We contrast our constellation framework with more typical “bucket” approaches that tend to compartmentalize a complex reality into categories that do not sufficiently match extremism’s dynamism.