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This new book in Critical Discourse Studies uses detailed and systematic analysis of the discursive construction of Austrian identities across a period of 20 years – from 1995 to 2015 – to trace the re-emergence of nationalism in the media, popular culture and politics, and the normalization of far-right nativist ideologies and attitudes. Contradictory and intertwined tendencies towards renationalization and transnationalization have always framed debates about European identities, but in the course of the so-called refugee crisis of 2015, the debates became polarized. During the COVID-19 pandemic, nation-states first reacted by closing borders, while symbols of banal nationalism proliferated. The data, drawn from a variety of empirical studies, suggest that changes in memory politics – the way past events are remembered – are caused by a range of factors, including: the growth of migrant societies; the influence of financial and climate crises; evolving gender politics; and a new transnational European politics of the past. The authors assess the challenges to liberal democracies and to fundamental human and constitutional rights, and analyse how the pandemic contributes to a new renationalization across Europe and beyond. |
