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Politics of Fear

What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean

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ID6529051
AuthorsRuth Wodak
Year2015
Pages256
Publication date2015-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byThe politics of fear: What right-wing populist discourses mean, Senem Aydın-Düzgit, 2016
VenuePolitics of Fear (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherSAGE Publications, Limited (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4135/9781446270073
ISBN9781446270073
Open LibraryOL28569595M
LanguageEN
Citations received1,055

"Populist right-wing politics is moving centre-stage, with some parties reaching the very top of the electoral ladder: but do we know why, and why now? In this book the author traces the trajectories of such parties from the margins of the political landscape to its centre, to understand and explain how they are transforming from fringe voices to persuasive political actors who set the agenda and frame media debates. Laying bare the normalization of nationalistic, xenophobic, racist and antisemitic rhetoric, she builds a new framework for this 'politics of fear' that is entrenching new social divides of nation, gender and body. The result reveals the micro-politics of right-wing populism: how discourses, genres, images and texts are performed and manipulated in both formal and also everyday contexts with profound consequences. This book is a must-read for scholars and students of linguistics, media and politics wishing to understand these dynamics that are re-shaping our political space."--Publisher

Conservatism · Discourse analysis · Conservatisme · Partis politiques · Political aspects · Political parties · Political Parties · Political science · Politique raciale · Populism · Populisme · Xénophobie

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