The rhetoric of Islamophobia: an analysis of the means of persuasion in Hege Storhaug’s writings on Islam and Muslims
| Autor: | Frode Helland, Sindre Bangstad |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Cultural Studies
Persuasion Sociology and Political Science Islamophobia media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Media studies Islam Racism 0506 political science Politics Framing (social sciences) Anthropology Political science Rhetoric 050602 political science & public administration 050703 geography media_common |
| ISSN: | 0141-9870 |
| Popis: | Few actors have had a greater impact on the “framing of Muslims” as a social and political “problem” in Norway since 2001 than Hege Storhaug of the government- and corporate billionaire funded civil society organization Human Rights Service (HRS). Using the methodological tools of the “rhetorical branch” of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and applying the Aristotelian concepts of ethos, logos and pathos, we analyze the bestselling popular title on Islam and Muslims ever published in Norway, namely Storhaug’s self-published 2015 title “Islam – The Eleventh Plague”. We argue that Storhaug’s popular success must be understood in light of her rhetorical appeals to femonationalism, the critique of religion and “Enlightenment” values. We show how she in her writings incites fear of the Muslim “Other” through specific rhetorical devices and a positioning of herself as a defender of the “nation” and the “people” – against national and international “elites”. |
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