The Media and the Normalisation of Right-Wing Violence in the Age of Brexit and Trump
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2020-10
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Rowman & Littlefield
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Abstract
This chapter examines the media and the normalisation of far-right violence following President Trump's rise to power, along with the UK's vote to leave the European Union in 2016. Right-wing movements allied to modernity and postmodernity are analysed, with theorists such as Emmanuel Levinas employed, and countries like Holland and Turkey gauged. This position recognises the power of social media in spreading violence but also maintains that extreme forms of far-right ideological belief have been been at the fringes of culture and society but at their core.
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activism, protest, media, Trump, Brexit, violence, far-right, BBC, postmodernity, CNN, The Sun, The Daily Mail, social media, UKIP, terrorism, John Gray, post-capitalism, KKK, Nazism, neo-Nazism, film, media, technology, social media, Trump, alt-right, Boris Johnson, Channel 4
Citation
Lee, J. (2020) The Media and the Normalisation of Right-Wing Violence in the Age of Brexit and Trump. In: Resist! Protest Media and Popular Culture in the Brexit-Trump Era, eds. Giuliana Monteverde and Victoria McCollum, pp. 139-162
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