TY - JOUR
T1 - The Transnational Patriot
T2 - Celebrating Cultural Diversity between Nation-States while Promoting Hostility Toward Diversity within Nation-States
AU - Nightingale, Alastair
AU - Muldoon, Orla
AU - Quayle, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - 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 nationstates. 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.
AB - 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 nationstates. 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.
KW - Transnational populism
KW - cross national diffusion
KW - ethno-pluralism
KW - political identity
KW - political mobilization
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U2 - 10.1027/1016-9040/a000416
DO - 10.1027/1016-9040/a000416
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85102563453
SN - 1016-9040
VL - 26
SP - 45
EP - 54
JO - European Psychologist
JF - European Psychologist
IS - 1
ER -