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The Radical Right versus the Media: from Media Critique to Claims of (Mis)Representation
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Abstract Criticizing mainstream media for their ‘lies’ or ‘fake news’ has become a common political practice on the radical right. Further empirical research is needed to better understand the intricacies of these attacks on media, in particular for the way they relate to criticism of the political system as... mehr
Criticizing mainstream media for their ‘lies’ or ‘fake news’ has become a common political practice on the radical right. Further empirical research is needed to better understand the intricacies of these attacks on media, in particular for the way they relate to criticism of the political system as a whole and to matters of political representation. How do radical right actors construct a sense of political misrepresentation through their critique of media, and how does this allow them to make representative claims? This is what we explore in this article through a discourse analysis of the Flemish radical right youth movement Schild & Vrienden. Drawing inspiration from constructivist theories of representation, we explore the entanglement in empirical practice between two dimensions of representation: 1) between its literal meaning (as ‘portrayal’) and its political meaning (as standing or speaking for), and 2) between representation and misrepresentation. With our analysis, we shed light on the increasing politicization of the media as a non-electoral space of representation and misrepresentation, and on the role played by media criticism in the radical right’s broader (meta)political strategies.... weniger
Klassifikation
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
Schild & Vrienden; discourse; media critique; misrepresentation; radical right; representative claims
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 165-178
Zeitschriftentitel
Politics and Governance, 7 (2019) 3
Heftthema
Rethinking Representation: Representative Claims in Global Perspective
ISSN
2183-2463
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)