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- Krzyzanowski, Michal, 1977-, et al.
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Uncivility, racism, and populism : Discourses and interactive practices in anti- & post-democratic communication
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Ingår i: Nordicom Review. - : Walter de Gruyter GmbH. - 1403-1108 .- 2001-5119. ; 42:1, s. 3-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This Special Issue of Nordicom Review discusses interactive practices of articulating and communicating uncivility in the context of recent wider anti- and post-democratic change. We consider that change as a cross-national phenomenon that has been taking place in the Nordic countries, Europe, and indeed elsewhere since the late 1990s and early 2000s, and one that has significantly accelerated with the global rise of the “anxious politics” (Albertson & Gadarian, 2015) of right-wing populism and the far-right (Moffitt, 2016; Mudde, 2019) in recent decades. While our collection joins an ongoing and growing body of research on both un- and incivility – which we describe and to some extent disentangle conceptually in detail below – it carries a few pronounced aims which characterise its contribution to the wider research on mediated and political communication in the context of a crisis of liberal democracy and the rise of nativism and far-right populism.
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- Gardell, Mattias, 1959-
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Lone Wolf Race Warriors and White Genocide
- 2021
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- When Brenton Tarrant live-streamed his massacre of 51 Muslims in Christchurch, NZ, in March 2019, he was but one in a series of lone-acting white men committing violent crime to further the radical white nationalist aim to save the white race from extinction and establish a white ethnostate. From where did white nationalists get the notion of an ongoing white genocide? Why should “resistance” against a perceived invasion of “white” territory be launched by individual “lone wolves” massacring non-combatants they had no prior relation to? How could slaughtering children be construed as a heroic act that a perpetrator wants to broadcast to the world? Based on a collection of interviews with lone wolves, their victims, and supporters, and a close reading of lone wolf, fascist, and radical nationalist material and communication, this Element provides answers to these and adjacent questions of importance.
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- Gardell, Mattias, 1959-
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‘The Girl Who Was Chased by Fire’ : Violence and Passion in Contemporary Swedish Fascist Fiction
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Ingår i: Fascism. - : Brill. - 2211-6249 .- 2211-6257. ; 10:1, s. 166-185
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Fascism invites its adherents to be part of something greater than themselves, invoking their longing for honor and glory, passion and heroism. An important avenue for articulating its affective dimension is cultural production. This article investigates the role of violence and passion in contemporary Swedish-language fascist fiction. The protagonist is typically a young white man or woman who wakes up to the realities of the ongoing white genocide through being exposed to violent crime committed by racialized aliens protected by the System. Seeking revenge, the protagonist learns how to be a man or meets her hero, and is introduced to fascist ideology and the art of killing. Fascist literature identifies aggression and ethnical cleansing as altruistic acts of love. With its passionate celebration of violence, fascism hails the productivity of destructivity, and the life-bequeathing aspects of death, which is at the core of fascism’s urge for national rebirth.
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- Larsson, Ernils, 1986-
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Rituals of a Secular Nation : Shinto Normativity and the Separation of Religion and State in Postwar Japan
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis explores how the concept of “religion” has been interpreted and negotiated in postwar Japanese courts of law, with a particular focus on its relationship to the adjacent concept “Shinto.” Particular attention is given to the landmark rulings by the Supreme Court on the Tsu Groundbreaking Ceremony case in 1977 and the Ehime Tamagushiryō case in 1997. The central questions discussed in this work relate to how postwar courts have handled the strict separation of religion from the state as established in the 1947 constitution, originally drafted by American servicemen during the occupation of Japan with the aim of preventing a return of “State Shinto.” The study emphasizes the political and ideological questions at the center of lawsuits on state-religion relations in Japan, arguing that these lawsuits must be understood within the greater framework of a hegemonic struggle over postwar national identity. Often filed by plaintiffs representing various “minority” positions, the lawsuits are read as a challenge against what I refer to as a Shinto normative order of discourse, according to which many aspects of Shrine Shinto are considered to be in accordance with common sense and integral to Japanese ethnic and national identity; what it means to be Japanese. Whereas this Shinto normative order of discourse in many ways mirrors prewar ideas about the Japanese national character, it is challenged in courts by liberals, socialists, and religious minorities. Central to this struggle is the question of how religion is to be understood in court. To the opponents of Shinto normativity, religion is understood as a concept which includes Shinto in all its forms, putting Shinto on equal footing with other religions. Proponents of Shinto normativity, on the other hand, argue that while in some ways similar to religion, Shinto is still essentially different from other religions, in particular as it focuses on the public rather than the private. This thesis critically examines both of these positions and how they have been evaluated by postwar courts of law, while also emphasizing the problems in legislating religion caused by the inherent ambiguity of the concept itself.
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