Overview
- Analyzes key popular culture artifacts linked with United States’ far-right extremism
- Explains the back and forth moves between mainstream politics and the far-right of ideas and issues
- Illustrates processes by which racialized subjects are produced and violence justified
Part of the book series: Global Political Sociology (GLPOSO)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book analyzes key popular culture artifacts linked with United States’ far-right extremism to illustrate how extremists use various narrative strategies to legitimate their interests and goals and to justify violent actions. Recognizing these narrative strategies and how they are used partly explains the back and forth moves between mainstream politics and the far-right of ideas and issues that used to remain within far-right circles. The main objective of this book is to utilize theoretical approaches that centralize processes of racialization to analyze and explain how far-right extremists utilize recognizable narratives to mainstream and communicate their ideas. The book will illustrate processes by which racialized subjects are produced and violence justified. In order to do so, the book concentrates on popular culture as sources of how the far-right constitutes their identities and goals. It first develops a methodological plan to study popular culture artifacts that is drawn from scholarship on race and discourse analysis in International Relations (IR). It then analyzes far-right use of key popular culture artifacts, such as magazines, memes, and manifestos, to note how extremist identities and interests are produced, publicly communicated, and mainstreamed. This will contribute to Security Studies and IR’s understanding of far-right extremism, especially how they utilize similar narrative strategies as used in mainstream contexts to justify their calls for violence.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Priya Dixit is Associate Professor of Politics in the Political Science Department at Virginia Tech University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Race, Popular Culture, and Far-right Extremism in the United States
Authors: Priya Dixit
Series Title: Global Political Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10820-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-10819-8Published: 26 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-10822-8Published: 26 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-10820-4Published: 25 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-5559
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5567
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 230
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations Theory, Comparative Politics, Political Sociology