Populism Versus Anti-populism in the Greek Press: Post-Structuralist Discourse Theory Meets Corpus Linguistics

Nikisianis, Nikos; Siomos, Thomas; Stavrakakis, Yannis; Markou, Grigoris; Dimitroulia, Titika

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-94123-3_12

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“…A growing body of literature has highlighted the benefits of combining CDS with CL (Baker et al, 2008; Baker and Levon, 2015; Mautner, 2009), noting the capacity of each approach to mitigate some of the limitations associated with the other, and there have been some excellent examples of such analysis (see Gabrielatos and Baker, 2008; Hunt, 2015). Some works combining DT and CL have also recently started to emerge (Nikisianis et al, 2019: 280), indicating great potential for a mutually beneficial fusion. Critically, with its capacity for automated analysis on large corpora, CL is able to offer greater breadth than is possible with in-depth, qualitative discourse studies.…”

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Populism, the media, and the mainstreaming of the far right: The Guardian’s coverage of populism as a case study

Brown

Mondon

2020

Politics

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Populism seems to define our current political age. The term is splashed across the headlines, brandished in political speeches and commentaries, and applied extensively in numerous academic publications and conferences. This pervasive usage, or populist hype, has serious implications for our understanding of the meaning of populism itself and for our interpretation of the phenomena to which it is applied. In particular, we argue that its common conflation with far-right politics, as well as its breadth of application to other phenomena, has contributed to the mainstreaming of the far right in three main ways: (1) agenda-setting power and deflection, (2) euphemisation and trivialisation, and (3) amplification. Through a mixed-methods approach to discourse analysis, this article uses The Guardian newspaper as a case study to explore the development of the populist hype and the detrimental effects of the logics that it has pushed in public discourse.

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Section: Case Study and Methodologymentioning

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Populism, the media, and the mainstreaming of the far right: The Guardian’s coverage of populism as a case study

Brown

Mondon

2020

Politics

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“…It also marks the field of the media. Using qualitative and lexicometric methods, we have surveyed a series of corpora constructed on the basis of a total of 17,363 articles to which we had access, published in the Greek printed press between 1 June 2014 and 31 May 2015 (Nikisianis, Siomos, Stavrakakis and Dimitroulia, 2016). What emerges from this analysis is, once more, a clear division between ostensibly 'anti-populist' and 'pro-populist' media.…”

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Populism, anti-populism and crisis

Stavrakakis

Katsambekis

Kioupkiolis

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Contemp Polit Theory

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This article focuses on two issues involved in the formation and political trajectory of populist representations within political antagonism. First, it explores the role of crisis in the articulation of populist discourse. This problematic is far from new within theories of populism but has recently taken a new turn. We thus purport to reconsider the way populism and crisis are related, mapping the different modalities this relation can take and advancing further their theorization from the point of view of a discursive theory of the political, drawing primarily on the Essex School perspective initially developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Second, this will involve focusing on the antagonistic language games developed around populist representations, something that has not attracted equal attention. Highlighting the need to study anti-populism together with populism, focusing on their mutual constitution, we will test the ensuing theoretical framework in an analysis of SYRIZA, a recent and, as a result, under-researched example of egalitarian, inclusionary populism emerging within the European crisis landscape.

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“…Postfoundationalism can be distinguished into two categories: theories emphasizing discourse analysis and theories of radical democracy. Whereas, the former has mostly been interested in critically analyzing various political organizations and media landscapes in postfoundational terms (Palonen, 2012;Marttila, 2015;Nikisianis et al, 2019), the latter type has sought to develop a democratic theory out of postfoundationalism's main principles (Devenney, 2020;Marchart, 2021). Such a democratic theory and its normative interpretation can already be discovered in the seminal contribution to postfoundational theory, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy by Laclau and Mouffe, in which they establish the programmatic thesis that "the task of the left .…”

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Depoliticization of politics and power: Mouffe and the conservative disposition in postfoundational political theory

Brunila

2022

Front. Polit. Sci.

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Postfoundational political theory has been criticized for being incapable of establishing a normative basis for politics. This is because postfoundationalism's conception of the “political” as a radical contingency disproves the existence of an objective ground that would make it possible to evaluate political movements from a neutral position. In this article, I counter this critique by distinguishing between Chantal Mouffe's political theory and other postfoundational theories based on their respective normative implications. This is done by explicating how Mouffe's way of conceptualizing the political implies a conservative political disposition. In order to accomplish this, I develop an understanding of the conservative political disposition, which refers to the normative idea that police power is necessary for producing and upholding a social order. Through an analysis of Carl Schmitt's theory, I elaborate that the conservative disposition is an attempt to justify the depoliticization of social relations. On the basis of this idea that some political theories have normative implications that are in line with the conservative disposition, I examine postfoundationalism. My argument is that while Mouffe's theory does imply the idea that police power is necessary, this is not the case with other postfoundational theories. On the contrary, other postfoundational democratic theories categorically deny that a form of power, namely police power, would be necessary.

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Populism Versus Anti-populism in the Greek Press: Post-Structuralist Discourse Theory Meets Corpus Linguistics

Cited by 18 publications

References 13 publications

Populism, the media, and the mainstreaming of the far right: The Guardian’s coverage of populism as a case study

Populism, the media, and the mainstreaming of the far right: The Guardian’s coverage of populism as a case study

Populism, anti-populism and crisis

Depoliticization of politics and power: Mouffe and the conservative disposition in postfoundational political theory

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