The Identitarian movement or Identitarianism is a pan-European nationalist, ethno-nationalist, far-right political ideology asserting the right of the European ethnic groups and white peoples to Western culture and territories exclusively. Originating in France as Les Identitaires, with its youth wing Generation Identity (GI), the movement expanded to other European countries during the early 21st century. Its ideology was formulated from the 1960s onward by essayists such as Alain de Benoist, Dominique Venner, Guillaume Faye and Renaud Camus, who are considered the main ideological sources of the movement.
Austrian Identitarians demonstrating in Vienna
Martin Sellner (2019)
Richard B. Spencer identifies himself as a leading member of the American Identitarian movement.
Alain de Benoist, also known as Fabrice Laroche, Robert de Herte, David Barney, and other pen names, is a French political philosopher and journalist, a founding member of the Nouvelle Droite, and the leader of the ethno-nationalist think tank GRECE.
Aged 16 at the time, de Benoist began his career as a journalist in Henry Coston's magazine Lectures Française.
Ian Smith, then the president of Rhodesia, prefaced de Benoist's 1965 book Rhodésie, pays des lions fidèles.
De Benoist (centre) at the Delta Foundation symposium of Antwerp in 2011
Oswald Spengler and the Conservative Revolution have had a strong influence on de Benoist's thought.