The Politics of Fear: What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean 1st Edition by Ruth Wodak (Author)
The Politics of Fear: What Right-Wing Populist Discourses Mean 1st Edition by Ruth Wodak (Author)
English | October 29, 2015 | ISBN: 1446247007 | 309 Pages | PDF | 4.0 MB
English | October 29, 2015 | ISBN: 1446247007 | 309 Pages | PDF | 4.0 MB
In this book Ruth Wodak traces the trajectories of such parties from the margins of the political landscape to its centre, to understand and explain how they are transforming from fringe voices to persuasive political actors who set the agenda and frame media debates. Laying bare the normalization of nationalistic, xenophobic, racist and antisemitic rhetoric, she builds a new framework for this ‘politics of fear’ that is entrenching new social divides of nation, gender and body.
The result reveals the micro-politics of right-wing populism: how discourses, genres, images and texts are performed and manipulated in both formal and also everyday contexts with profound consequences. This book is a must-read for scholars and students of linguistics, media and politics wishing to understand these dynamics that are re-shaping our political space.