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The Transnational Patriot: Celebrating Cultural Diversity Between Nation-States While Promoting Hostility Toward Diversity Within Nation-States
Ist Teil von
European psychologist, 2021, Vol.26 (1), p.45-54
Ort / Verlag
Hogrefe Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This article explores how the populist radical right
manage identity talk on an international stage. Speeches from the Europe of
Nations and Freedom conference held in Koblenz, Germany, on January 21, 2017,
were analyzed using a rhetorical and critical discursive psychology approach.
This occasion was a celebratory public display of international solidarity
between political actors who privilege national interests, advocate stronger
immigration control and are Eurosceptic. Results highlight two interdependent
rhetorical strategies that construct an inclusive diverse transnational
political community, built on the core shared ideology of exclusionary
nationalist nativism. Firstly, "Constructing the Transnational
Patriot" works up a superordinate political category often labeled the
"patriots" that transcends individual nation-states. Temporal and
spatial boundary work was done to construct the political collective as
extensive, expanding and enduring. This capacity for the speakers to position
themselves as prototypical members of a transnational political community
facilitates and demands the second rhetorical strategy, "Ambivalent
Diversity." Here speakers acknowledge and celebrate the cultural
diversity of their political collective through a precious "national
diversity" between nation-states while simultaneously displaying
hostility to cultural diversity within nation-states. Speakers present
themselves, and their political collective, as courageous protectors of the
segregated national diversity against the threatening collusion between the
violent oppressive political "elite" and exploitative immigrants.
The speakers hijack the liberal understanding of diversity and reconfigure it in
support of an argument defending the victimized majority and national cultural
homogeneity.