Comparative local and global discursive strategies of the Suidlanders: How right-wing extremist factions use discursive strategies to construct identities
Srovnávací místní a globální diskurzivní strategie Suidlanders: Jak pravicové extremistické frakce používají k vytváření identit diskurzivní strategie
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Referee
Střítecký, Vít
Faculty / Institute
Faculty of Social Sciences
Discipline
International Master in Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies (IMSISS)
Department
Department of Security Studies
Date of defense
15. 9. 2021
Publisher
Univerzita Karlova, Fakulta sociálních vědLanguage
English
Grade
Excellent
Francis de Satgé Charles University 50698138 Abstract Right-wing extremism, nationalism and populism are increasingly prominent in the global political landscape (Toscano, 2019: 1). This dissertation argues that these phenomena are partial products of discursively constructed identities conveyed to audiences using a variety of strategies. It critically examines how the South African Christian survivalist right-wing extremist organization, the Suidlanders, uses political communication to discursively construct identities. Using the discourse-historical approach (Wodak, 2015; Reisigl & Wodak, 2017) to analyse the 2018 and 2019 YouTube videos of the Suidlanders' spokesperson, Simon Roche, the argument is made that his discursive constructions of difference and sameness are the product of the complex socio-political history of the Afrikaner nation in South Africa as well as of contemporary transnational constructions of far-right identity. In Roche's construction of in-groups and out- groups, he conceives the Afrikaner in-group as deeply fractured by political difference, and the black South African Other as one component of a larger, transnational Other - the globalists. Departing from the history of nationalist identity in South Africa, the Suidlanders find "belonging" in a loosely defined transnational...