'Swallowing the red pill': the coronavirus pandemic and the political imaginary of stigmatized knowledge in the discourse of the far-right
| Autor: | Alexis Chapelan |
|---|---|
| Přispěvatelé: | École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Centre d’études en sciences sociales du religieux (CéSor ), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universitatea din Bucuresti (UB), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
History
Discourse analysis media_common.quotation_subject 050801 communication & media studies 050905 science studies Security studies [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences Politics Critical discourse analysis Extremism 0508 media and communications Political science Far-right The Imaginary ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS media_common Insurgency Conspiracy theory 05 social sciences Stigmatized knowledge 16. Peace & justice Political economy Political Science and International Relations Political history Original Article Ideology 0509 other social sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Transatlantic Studies Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 2021, 19 (3), pp.282-312. ⟨10.1057/s42738-021-00073-2⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1479-4012 |
| DOI: | 10.1057/s42738-021-00073-2⟩ |
| Popis: | Pandemic disease is not merely a biological reality but also a cognitive and socially constructed phenomenon which intensely mobilizes a multiplicity of political frames. Far-right political entrepreneurs are, despite their remoteness from actual decision-making processes, active stakeholders in the current crisis. Existential threats to societies breed a sense of urgency and heightened cultural warfare that is a hotbed for extremism. Our study seeks to map, compare and contrast the symbolic responses to the Coronavirus crisis articulated by various far-right actors in two established democracies in the transatlantic area: The United States and France. We aim to shed light on how entrenched far-right mythologies and tropes—which appear increasingly transatlantic—are channeled into a new synthesis as part of an “alternative” political epistemology. Infused with the mythos of resistance and insurgency, resolutely anti-systemic, this alternative epistemology can better be described, following Michael Barkun, as a form of “stigmatized knowledge”. Our study will employ a Critical Discourse Analysis framework to bring into focus, in the response of the Euro-American far-right to the COVID-19 crisis, the ideological semiotics of the current “infodemic”. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|
Full text from SpringerLink