Fascism to the Nouvelle Droite: The Dream of Pan-European Empire

Bar-On, Tamir

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“…In European democracies, the far right is believed to have intensified its efforts to create a common opposition against the weakening of nationstates resulting from processes such as globalization and European integration. Although nativist and nationalist, in the last century the far right has been concerned with the establishment of connections with like-minded organizations beyond state borders (see Bar-On 2008;Zuquete 2015). More recently, the Internet constitutes a precious tool for the facilitation of exchanges and easing the construction of crossborder collective identities and interpretative frames (Caiani et al 2012).…”

Section: Far Right Politics Transnationalism and The Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

The transnationalisation of far right discourse on Twitter

2018

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How transnational are the audiences of far right parties and movements on Twitter? While an increasing number of contributions addresses the topic of transnationalism in far right politics, few systematic investigations exist on the actors and discourses favored in transnational exchanges on social media. Building on the literature on the far right, social movements, transnationalism and the Internet, the paper addresses this gap by studying the initiators and the issues that are favored in online exchanges between audiences of far right organizations, e.g. political parties and movements across France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. We use a new dataset on the activities of far right Twitter users that is analyzed through a mixed methods approach. Using social network analysis, we detect transnational links between far right organizations across countries based on retweets from audiences of far right Twitter users. Retweets are qualitatively coded for content and compared to the content retweeted within national communities. Finally, using a logistic regression, we quantify the level to which specific issues and organizations enjoy high levels of attention across borders. Subsequently, we use discourse analysis to qualitatively reconstruct the interpretative frames accompanying these patterns. We find that although social media are often ascribed much power in favoring transnational exchanges between far right organizations, there is little evidence of this. Only a few issues (anti-immigration and nativist interpretations of the economy) garner transnational far right audiences on Twitter. In addition, we find that more than movements, political parties play a prominent role in the construction of a transnational far right discourse.

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Section: Far Right Politics Transnationalism and The Internetmentioning

confidence: 99%

The transnationalisation of far right discourse on Twitter

2018

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“…While the idea of another 'Europe des Nations' is offered, it is really only a shell that promises little else than a federation of consangine nations. As these digital publics narrate European identity under threat by migrants and Muslims, they participate in a political movement of racist, exclusionary politics that reproduces strains of post-war fascism in Europe (Griffin 2000;Bar-On 2008).…”

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A “Europe des Nations”: far right imaginative geographies and the politicization of cultural crisis on Twitter in Western Europe

Ganesh

Froio

2020

Journal of European Integration

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Contestation over European integration has been widely studied in the rhetoric of parties, leaders, and movements on the far right in a variety of media. Focusing on Twitter use by far right actors in Western Europe, we apply corpus-aided discourse analysis to explore how imaginative geographies are used to politicize Europe among their digital publics. We find that the idea of a crisis of cultural identity pervades imaginaries of Europe amongst far right digital publics. While Europe is presented as facing a crisis of cultural identity, we find that the far right articulates an aspirational imaginary of Europe, the 'Europe des Nations' that rejects liberal-democratic pluralism in the EU and the 'establishment'. We find that the contestation of Europe in far right digital publics relies on a crisis of cultural identity, representing a translation of Nouvelle Droite imaginaries of Europe into the social media space.

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“…Important insights for the study of British Euroskepticism can be drawn from studies of right-wing populism in Europe since the 1990s (see Wodak, Khosravinik, and Mral 2013;Bustikova 2009;Mudde 2007;Hainsworth 2008;Bar-on 2008;Ignazi 2006;Betz 1994). At the same time, the application of the critical logics approach to the study of British Euroskepticism highlights the potential insights which may be gained from this approach to studying analogous political movements elsewhere.…”

Section: British Euroskepticism and Right-wing Populismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fantasies of subjugation: a discourse theoretical account of British policy on the European Union

Hawkins

2014

Critical Policy Studies

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The decision by the UK government to hold a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union (EU) marks an important development in policy towards the EU. Policy changes of this kind must be understood in the historical and political context in which they occur. This includes the framing of the policy issues within public discourse. In the UK, policies are formed in a discursive environment which is overwhelmingly hostile towards the EU. Debates are structured by a predominantly Euroskeptic discourse which emphasizes the UK's separation and heterogeneity from the rest of the EU. Drawing on the logics of critical explanation, this article examines the structure and affective power of Euroskeptic discourses which dictate the terms of the EU debate. It presents a case study of the recent EU treaty revision process, culminating in the Treaty of Lisbon. In so doing, it enables a deeper understanding of recent policy developments.

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Fascism to the Nouvelle Droite: The Dream of Pan-European Empire

Cited by 37 publications

References 14 publications

The transnationalisation of far right discourse on Twitter

The transnationalisation of far right discourse on Twitter

A “Europe des Nations”: far right imaginative geographies and the politicization of cultural crisis on Twitter in Western Europe

Fantasies of subjugation: a discourse theoretical account of British policy on the European Union

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