Instrumentalization of emotions and emotion norms: migration issue in European Right-Wing Populist Discourse

Özer, Yonca; AŞCI, Fatmanur KAÇAR

doi:10.1080/23340460.2021.1944261

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“…Existing research finds that witnessing narratives produced by vulnerable populations, such as forced migrants in alternative digital spaces may serve to confront and transform the immobility imposed upon them: physical segregation, socio-political exclusion, and discursive stigmatization (Witteborn, 2012). Aptly naming themselves "Covid-19 refugees", the Chinese international students striving to return to China during the global pandemic experience a similar matrix of immobility brought by their transnational movement, which is perceived as a burden and threat in the populist discourse (Özer & Aşcı, 2021). Building on the existing scholarship on the affordance of digital witnessing accounts of marginalized groups, we outline four layers of witnessing that Douyin, as a mobile media platform, affords in the context of crises and stigmas.…”

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“…It is equally likely to bring disaligned communities and witness the affective tensions between connected groups and the clash of their respective emotion norms. Özer and Aşcı ( 2021 ), for instance, examine how emotions such as fear, anxiety, anger, and contempt are performed in the right-wing populist discourse against refugees circulated on social media.…”

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(Im)mobility and performance of emotions: Chinese international students’ difficult journeys to home during the COVID-19 pandemic

Zhang

2022

Mobile Media & Communication

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This article examines mediated performances of emotions by Chinese international students in their transnational journeys returning to China during the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on the role of mobile media in helping students cope with their cross-border (im)mobility and symbolic immobility. By thematically analyzing 36 self-representational videos produced by returning Chinese students on a burgeoning mobile media platform Douyin, we identify 5 overarching themes of emotional performance: fear, pride, gratitude, shame, and solidarity. We propose that mobile media has the potential to create a hybrid space that witnesses and elicits empathy for the hardship experienced by marginalized mobile groups during the global pandemic. Mobile media, by enabling simultaneous communication, amplifies the sensation of belonging in times of isolation and ambiguity and offers dialogic venues for disparate groups across geographical and socioemotional distances. Our findings suggest the vulnerability of mobile communities in the event of a global pandemic, and the affordances of mobile media in confronting and resolving such precarity. We call attention to the intersections of mobile communities and mobile media amid the global pandemic, particularlyon the experiences and performances of emotions in hybrid spaces.

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(Im)mobility and performance of emotions: Chinese international students’ difficult journeys to home during the COVID-19 pandemic

Zhang

2022

Mobile Media & Communication

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“…During this process, denigrating and impersonating adjectives and labels have been used for them and moreover, they are defined in terms of their undesired existence in Germany, their associations with violent crimes and any other evil act which threats the Germans. Moreover, their assumed threat to Germany has been permanently underlined under various themes both in domestic politics and international politics (Özer and Kaçar-Aşcı, 2021). At this point, Paik's (2016) concept of "epistemological violence" can be referred in which it is stated that "in the name of politicising their case, marginalised groups are inevitably entangled with Western practices and discourses that ultimately perpetuate their own exclusion" (Chouliaraki and Stolic, 2017: 9).…”

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Migrants as Floating Signifiers in and Through Right-Wing Populist Political Style: The Case of the Afd

AŞCI

2021

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This article focuses on how and in which ways migrants are taken into the right-wing populist agendas, specifically analysing how migrants are represented in the right-populist style of Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) Party. At a time when populism studies have increased gradually and attained maturity, the impact and contribution of the populist actors by means of their discourse and style on the representation of certain groups should not be neglected. In addition to this, the ways migrants have been represented by the populist actors can be ranked among the subjects which need to be investigated not only for Turkey which hosts millions of migrants and people with Turkish heritage living in Europe but also for the Turkey-European Union (EU) relations in the long-term. The relevant literature suggests that migrants are represented in Europe within negative frameworks rather than positive. This study is designed to ascertain the contributions of the right-wing populist parties to the existent discourses and representations, accordingly, analysed how and through which representation strategies migrants have been in the right-wing populist style. For this study, the AfD and its representation strategies concerning migrants have been chosen and the party campaign visuals of the AfD posted between 2013-2021 have been considered and the ones which are overtly related to the migrants have been focused on to reach the argument of the article with primary coding for an initial analysis. The key findings of the article suggest that negative representation of migrants has been sustained by the right-wing populist party AfD and the existent pejorative representations have been reinforced, moreover migrants have been constructed as floating signifiers in and through right-wing populist style with strategic usages.

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“…All of the European radical right parties have many features in common, such as nationalism, welfare chauvinism (Mudde, 2007), and especially mobilisation against minorities (Buštíková, 2018). Political discourses of Marine Le Pen, Matteo Salvini, Giorgia Meloni, or top politicians of Alternative for Germany (AfD) are employing the emotional language, typically addressing negative emotions vis-à-vis the migrants, and mixing populism with wide use of negative emotions (Özer and Fatmanur, 2021;Bonansinga, 2022;Martella and Bracciale, 2022). Still, CEE party systems reveal certain specificities, based on a historical context remarkable for the lack of liberalism and the specific role of nationalism compared with Western European mainstream (Minkenberg, 2002(Minkenberg, , 2017Pirro, 2014Pirro, , 2015Pytlas, 2016).…”

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Emotions of fear and anger as a discursive tool of radical right leaders in Central Eastern Europe

Hloušek,

Meislová,

Havlík

2024

Front. Polit. Sci.

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The paper examines how the radical right parties´ leaders work with emotions while addressing their voters and sympathizers on Twitter/X social media. We focus on the “supply side” on the level of leaders´ discourses. The goal is to demonstrate how they work with emotions, especially those of fear and anger. The context represents Russian aggression against Ukraine, because, typically, circumstances of a crisis bolster the ability of radical right leaders to use emotional rhetoric devices. Czechia, Hungary, and Slovakia represent three particularly relevant and distinctive cases among the CEE countries according to the relevance, relative strength, and stability of radical right parties. We examined social media, particularly Twitter, since it is one of the most prominent tools of political communication today, especially for populists. We collected the data of all Tweets between February 24, 2022 and February 24, 2023. We combined a systematic quantitative content analysis with a more in-depth qualitative analysis of the key characteristics of the discursive construction of the two most salient emotions: anger and fear. We did not confirm the assumption that they would utilise the war in Ukraine since most tweets addressed issues related to domestic politics. The research, however, confirmed that despite differences, anger and fear play a substantial role in the emotional repertoire and represent necessary rhetorical devices. Our findings concur with the literature on radical right populism and its employment of emotional discourse. We found that even a crisis in international politics has been reframed primarily as a domestic issue and integrated into classical discursive practices.

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Instrumentalization of emotions and emotion norms: migration issue in European Right-Wing Populist Discourse

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

(Im)mobility and performance of emotions: Chinese international students’ difficult journeys to home during the COVID-19 pandemic

(Im)mobility and performance of emotions: Chinese international students’ difficult journeys to home during the COVID-19 pandemic

Migrants as Floating Signifiers in and Through Right-Wing Populist Political Style: The Case of the Afd

Emotions of fear and anger as a discursive tool of radical right leaders in Central Eastern Europe

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