Monstrosity, Abjection and Europe in the War on Terror

Giuliani, Gaia

doi:10.1080/10455752.2016.1192212

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“…By othering, we mean a process of homogenizing groups and the hierarchization and exclusion of groups/cultures through discourse (Krumer-Nevo & Sidi, 2012). Thus, when the 'other' is present in our 'space' it becomes a threat and a security problem (Giuliani, 2016;Santos el al., 2018).…”

Section: Gendering and Racializing Nations: Protecting 'Us' From 'Others'mentioning

confidence: 99%

The populist far-right and the intersection of antiimmigration and antifeminist agendas: the Portuguese case

Santos

Roque

2021

DiGeSt - Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies

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This article aims to discuss the intersections of the anti-feminist and anti-immigration agendas in the Portuguese far-right through critical discourse analysis of the PNR and Chega’s positions. These political actors convey nationalist, racist and anti-multiculturalist messages at the same time that they show their hostility towards gender equality policies, using racial, cisgender and heteronormative categories as criteria to define whose citizens are worthy of defense/protection. Recently, they have also co-opted gender equality agendas to justify anti-immigration positions, specifically opposing the hosting of refugees, depicted as a potential threat to the imagined Portuguese and European white and Christian community. The latter representation, apparently disruptive of their own conservative ideology based on protecting the traditional family/nation, is thus re-oriented in order to simultaneously attack “gender ideology”. The article shows how the mobilization of gendered and racialized tropes in the construction of Europe and Portugal as at risk from ‘external’ forces re-inscribes racist and xenhophobic securitarian discourses in the political sphere.

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Section: Gendering and Racializing Nations: Protecting 'Us' From 'Others'mentioning

confidence: 99%

The populist far-right and the intersection of antiimmigration and antifeminist agendas: the Portuguese case

Santos

Roque

2021

DiGeSt - Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies

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“…The general public's censure and blame of the criminals establish a common adversary through which citizens can consolidate their sense of social solidarity. The "faces" of the criminals matched that of the violent man, normally perceived as "rebellious", "violent" and "monstrous" offenders and, therefore, strongly associated with sexual crimes (see Naylor 2001;Greer 2003: 128;Carrington and Scott 2008;Jewkes 2011;Ellis et al 2013;Guiliani 2016). Through the conception of gender roles, the media is capable of identifying the male offenders and female victims through "stylization (…) of the gendered self" (Butler 1988: 519).…”

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confidence: 99%

The “Men Who Kill” Through the Lenses of the Media: Performing Images of Criminal Suspects

Martins¹

2021

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The media plays an important role in producing narratives and representations of transnational male criminals in crime news stories. The sample examined here includes historical analysis of news published in European newspapers in 2014-2016 related to the coverage of certain highprofile criminal cases. Relatively few studies have focused on media analysis of offenders in general, and even fewer have examined how the media portrays "men who kill" within a specific transnational context. I argue that different newspapers use convergent approaches based on a moral view of gender, guided by the ideology of criminal practices related to masculinities. I conclude that the press, through its style, treatment, and tenor, tends to (re)produce biased, sensationalised, and stereotypical portraits of the behaviour of male criminals, performing them as "monsters", "insane", and "ancestral". This also often occurs by attributing different notions of "otherness" when focusing excessively on "migrant criminals" associated with particularly marginalised populations such as male sexual predators.

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“…The insistence on toxic narratives that regurgitate colonial archives, Malthusian nightmares and racialized imaginaries (Baldwin, 2016a;Giuliani, 2016;Telford, 2018) can be seen as an escape from the difficulty to envision (or embrace) different futures and ways to be (im)mobile. Seen as a symptom of climate change and the Anthropocene (Bettini, 2019), climate migration becomes a question that signifies a "crisis of humanism" (Baldwin, 2017a), a profound rupture in the civilisation that has produced climate change.…”

Section: The Human Face Of the Anthropocene?mentioning

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About Time! The Abyss of the Future and End(s) of Subjectivity in (Climate) Dystopias

Bettini¹

2019

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As the climate emergency becomes tangible, its intractability within current paradigms suggests the need to envision and enact new "worlds" and forms of subjectivity. This has proven difficult, also in popular culture. In literature and film, dystopia and catastrophe are a frequent resort to narrate a post-climate crisis world. Building on scholarship critical of this tendency, the article zooms in on two dystopian novels, The Water Knife (Bacigalupi, 2015) and La galassia dei dementi (Cavazzoni, 2018), and contrasts the subjective positions these two "nightmares" project onto a future disasterbased on a melancholic mourning of loss, and on a shared condition of lack, respectively. The article argues that, while the former risks resuscitating established ways of "being human"part of the crises that climate change symptomatizes-, the latter can facilitate imagining new and more just socio-ecological constellations.

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Monstrosity, Abjection and Europe in the War on Terror

Cited by 15 publications

References 39 publications

The populist far-right and the intersection of antiimmigration and antifeminist agendas: the Portuguese case

The populist far-right and the intersection of antiimmigration and antifeminist agendas: the Portuguese case

The “Men Who Kill” Through the Lenses of the Media: Performing Images of Criminal Suspects

About Time! The Abyss of the Future and End(s) of Subjectivity in (Climate) Dystopias

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