Donald Trump and the white-male dissonance machine

Page, Sam; Dittmer, Jason

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.07.003

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“…Boy, did we get it wrong. In our previous editorial (Page and Dittmer 2016) we asserted that Trump would not win the election. Other predictionssuch as our hope that the rise and eventual fall of Trump would provide an opportunity to reconfigure the sclerotic political gridlock that has come to characterize U.S. politicsseem increasingly distant.…”

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“…Bleeding women! ), he positioned himself as the embodiment of white masculine resurgence, enacted what Page and Dittmer (2016) have called a "white-male dissonance machine," and blithely evaded the obvious questions: could a millionaire with a history of not paying workers save the (white) working class? In the year since, the dissonance has become only more uncanny as not only Trump but his entire family and team took the stage in epic performances of whiteness.…”

Section: Banu Gökariksel and Sara Smithmentioning

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Reassessing the Trump presidency, one year on

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Reassessing the Trump presidency, one year on

Steinberg

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Dittmer

et al. 2018

Political Geography

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“…Such a concern with emotion in electoral politics resonates beyond Latin America, into many spaces in America, Europe and beyond (cf. Page & Dittmer, 2016; Steinberg et al, 2018). This can be seen as part of what Dittmer (2017: 6) calls the ‘New Statecraft’, a focus ‘principally concerned with the everyday crafting of the state’.…”

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Using ethnography and assemblage theory in political geography

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2020

Geography Compass

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“…The future of US geopolitical subjectivity relies on a past narrative that sites like the TMM respond to and seek to perpetuate in certain ways. Such sites are made perhaps even more “real” in the current geopolitical climate, whereby fear of an enemy bent on US destruction lurks in every corner (see Gökarıksel & Smith, ; Ingram, ; Page & Dittmer, ). In the following section, we explore the theoretical resources necessary for grasping the embodied geopolitics of negative simulation.…”

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Negative simulation, spectacle and the embodied geopolitics of tourism

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Casino

2018

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper builds on recent work on the embodied geopolitics of tourism to investigate the Titan Missile Museum (TMM), a Cold War‐era underground nuclear missile silo and command bunker in the southwest USA. In examining how visitors are not only persuaded to adopt certain attitudes towards the weaponry, but are enrolled in an embodied experience that is active in the formation of subjectivity that emerges from such an encounter, the paper draws on the philosophy of Jean Baudrillard and other non‐representational theorists to argue that this tourism encounter is a negative simulation that can be informed by a better understanding of “hyperreal” spectacle. This spectacle, however, does not simply fall in the realm of representation but is one that engages affect and emotion as important for the emergence of geopolitical subjectivity. While the TMM works to produce what Baudrillard might call a “non‐event” out of nuclear geopolitics, it also takes the risk of getting too close to the bomb by simulating its launch. These dynamics are encapsulated in the highlight of the standard one‐hour tour: the simulation of a missile launch, something that never took place. Drawing on our experience at the TMM and visitor comments left online at Yelp.com, as well as the broader archive of journalism and scholarship on the site, we also sense the possibility of something else emerging out of the embodied and performative materialities that constitute this site of “dark tourism.”

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Donald Trump and the white-male dissonance machine

Cited by 16 publications

References 5 publications

Reassessing the Trump presidency, one year on

Reassessing the Trump presidency, one year on

Using ethnography and assemblage theory in political geography

Negative simulation, spectacle and the embodied geopolitics of tourism

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