Donald Trump's discursive field

A juncture of stigma contests over race, gender, religion, and democracy

Bibliographic Data

ID12912928
AuthorsEric O Silva (0000-0001-7308-1073, Georgia Southern University, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume13
Issue12
Publication date2019-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-9020 • E-ISSN: 1751-9020
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soc4.12757
OpenAlexW2991964460
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited72

Donald Trump's election to the U.S. Presidency in 2016 qualifies as one of the more shocking events in American political history. This article reviews the literature on the social construction of Donald Trump's political career. It finds prominent ideological laminations over racism, Islamophobia, nativism, sexism, Christianity, and right‐wing populism in Trump's discursive field. This article argues that Trump's discursive field comprises a juncture of stigma contests over the moral worth of numerous collective identities including men, women, racial minorities, immigrants, Muslims, Christians, and the middle class. Such stigma contests likely exacerbate recognition gaps created by neoliberal policies. This review suggests that scholars should continue to examine the connection between Trump's political career and stigmatization. Moreover, cultural sociologists should ready themselves to track the dialectical response to Trump and to assess the lasting impact on the American normative order

Christian right · Ideology · Immigration · Islamophobia · Political science · Politics · Populism · Psychological nativism · Racism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements · Religion and Society Interactions · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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