Whiteness, populism and the racialisation of the working class in the United Kingdom and the United States

Mondon, Aurélien; Winter, Aaron

doi:10.1080/1070289x.2018.1552440

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“…It is also impossible to separate this loss of status from the story of a 'white backlash' in waves from the civil rights movement, individualism and colour-blindness in the Reagan/Thatcher era, anti-Obama birtherism, and the sense that whites are in a zero-sum game with others (Hewitt 2005, Longazel 2013, Hughey 2014, p. 723, Anderson 2016, Garner 2017. The sense that white privilege has collapsed points to an identity crisis that resonates far beyond the narrow construction of the 'white working class left behind' as the support base for the populist radical right (Mondon and Winter 2019).…”

Section: Thymos and White Entitlementmentioning

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Weaponizing white thymos: flows of rage in the online audiences of the alt-right

Ganesh

2020

Cultural Studies

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The alt-right is a growing radical right-wing network that is particularly effective at mobilizing emotion through digital communications. Introducing 'white thymos' as a framework to theorize the role of rage, anger, and indignation in alt-right communications, this study argues that emotive communication connects alt-right users and mobilizes white thymos to the benefit of populist radical right politics. By combining linguistic, computational, and interpretive techniques on data collected from Twitter, this study demonstrates that the alt-right weaponizes white thymos in three ways: visual documentation of white victimization, processes of legitimization of racialized pride, and reinforcement of the rectitude of rage and indignation. The weaponization of white thymos is then shown to be central to the culture of the alt-right and its connectivity with populist radical right politics. KEYWORDS Alt-right; populist radical right; white nationalism; social media; affect; Twitter The recent increase of research into the alt-right has uncovered much of the structure and ideology of this movement. However, how the alt-right captures the attention of its audiences and the forms of affect and emotion that it mobilizes are aspects of this movement that are not well understood. While the 'alt-right is unlike any racist movement we have ever seen. It is atomized, amorphous, predominantly online, and mostly anonymous' (Hawley 2017, p. 3), it is a product of decades of white supremacist organizing in the United States and far right ideology and narratives in Europe and North America. Moreover, the term alt-right is challenging to define, but it can be understood as an umbrella term for a set of radical right social movements active primarily (but not exclusively) in Anglophone countries. It has come to be understood in the literature as a contingent coalition of activists, usually networked online, that span online troll cultures, misogynists in the manosphere, neofascists, ultranationalists, identitarians, and white

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Section: Thymos and White Entitlementmentioning

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Weaponizing white thymos: flows of rage in the online audiences of the alt-right

Ganesh

2020

Cultural Studies

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“…Many studies have shown that recent voting behavior in the USA and Europe has been tied to racism and xenophobia. For example, Mondon and Winter (, p. 510) find that in the 2016 Brexit and USA presidential elections, ‘the re‐assertion of white identity as a legitimate political category … legitimised, mainstreamed and normalised racism and the far right’. These issues will continue to be a challenge to democratic values as ‘white’ populations become the minority as a result of demographic change.…”

Section: The Comparative Politics Of Immigrationmentioning

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Immigration, Race and the Radical Right: Politics and Policy from Colonialism to Brexit

Givens¹

2020

J of Common Market Studies

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I began studying the radical right and immigration policy in Europe in the mid-1990s and when conducting my research, I have been acutely aware of the impact of my background and personal experiences on my perspectives on these issues. As an African American, first-generation college graduate, I am unusual in my knowledge of French and German, let alone the fact that I study immigration and radical right parties in Europe. In fact, given that my name is gender neutral and non-ethnic sounding, many who meet me are surprised that I am the Terri Givens who wrote the classic book, Voting Radical Right in Western Europe. However, I believe that it is important for a diversity of voices to reflect on and conduct research into these topics.

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“…Frustrations at this starvation could reasonably contribute to public feelings of disenfranchisement and elitism. Such feelings were key among Brexit and Trump voters (Mondon & Winter, ; Prentoulis et al, ). Alongside decades of difficulty in disseminating scientific knowledge to publics (see Callon, ; Callon et al, ; Stilgoe, Lock, & Wilsdon, ), and in the “shaping of publics as markets” (Thorpe & Gregory, , p. 273) to be sold to rather than necessarily reflecting their interests, these institutions must therefore share at least some responsibility for their current challenges.…”

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Experimenting with institutions in a 21st century age of “post‐truth”

Walker

2020

Geography Compass

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This paper contributes to experimental geographies in the context of scientific, research‐based institutions. This focus is under‐explored but increasingly under siege in a “post‐truth”, “alternative facts” and “fake news” era in the US and UK. I respond to the current cultural, political and social challenges presented to institutions against this backdrop, arguing for a solution to these challenges: experimenting with institutions. The paper first outlines how experiments have recently become used in experimental geographies. The paper then applies these understandings of experiments to the context of institutions, arguing for engaging with new, key situations rather than necessarily with key “experts”. The paper lastly explores one example of such experiments, termed “artist‐led institutions”, and their merits for addressing the challenges outlined. I argue these artist‐led institutions demonstrate potential solutions to current institutional difficulties through expanding engagements to include more practitioners and groups rather than just “experts”, as part of a turn towards recognising more forms of expertise, and their value for wider conversations. By engaging with wider groups assembled around key situations rather than “experts”, artist‐led institutions open up the value of conversations as part of the process of knowledge‐making, rather than solely focusing on the production of outputs in pursuit of certified expertise characteristic of scientific, research‐based institutions. In doing so, the paper contributes to a discussion involving experimental geographies and institutions which may yet become increasingly audible in an age of uncertainty, as 21st Century challenges unfold.

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Whiteness, populism and the racialisation of the working class in the United Kingdom and the United States

Cited by 64 publications

References 19 publications

Weaponizing white thymos: flows of rage in the online audiences of the alt-right

Weaponizing white thymos: flows of rage in the online audiences of the alt-right

Immigration, Race and the Radical Right: Politics and Policy from Colonialism to Brexit

Experimenting with institutions in a 21st century age of “post‐truth”

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