Underdogs Shepherding the Flock—Discursive Outgrouping of ‘the Internal Enemy’ in Online Discussions

Bauvois, Gwenaëlle; Pyrhönen, Niko; Pyysiäinen, Jarkko

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“…In the course of the discussion, this contrast is used to work up to the position of the majority Finnish underdog (cf. Bauvois, Pyrhönen & Pyysiäinen 2022), who, after a lifetime of being a hardworking, taxpaying, effortful citizen (Gibson 2009), gets significantly less social security benefits than immigrants. Together, the participants work up a narrative in which immigrants drive expensive cars at the expense of the Finnish government, while the majority of Finns are deprived of their bikes in order to be able to buy food.…”

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“…Presenting immigrants and/or their supporters as a threat to the 'people' is a common feature in political (e.g. Hogan & Haltinner 2015;Sakki & Pettersson 2016) and lay (Bauvois et al 2022) anti-immigration rhetoric. However, mobilising the myth of privileged immigrants and the figure of the Finnish underdog enables the threat scenario to be taken further, to question or reverse the power relations between the Finnish majority and immigrants.…”

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‘They Actually do Get More Money’: Using Myths in Justifying Hierarchies in Ethnic Relations

Ryynänen,

Nortio,

Varjonen

2024

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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This article analyses myths as a societal and discursive mechanism for maintaining and reproducing hierarchical ethnic relations. Theoretically, we rely on Paulo Freire and discursive social psychology (DSP) in conceptualising myths as false perceptions that act as counterforces to a critically informed understanding of reality and end up discursively reproducing the societal status quo with its unequal power relations. The data was produced as part of an artistic-scientific process between 2017 and 2019, which consisted of migration-themed events relying on participatory theatre. The events took place mainly in suburban bars but also in libraries and nursing homes around Finland. In our analysis, we identify three myths regarding ethnic relations: a myth of immigrants as profoundly different from majority Finns, a myth that discrimination or racism is a minor problem, and a myth of privileged immigrants. We also exemplify how myths are employed, co-constructed and actively used in producing versions of reality and for opposing equality measures and the politics of anti-racism. We argue that conceptualising a certain type of account as myth and combining Freirean theorisations with DSP to analyse them, adds to understanding of the ways in which social hierarchies and power relations are constructed, maintained and reproduced.

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‘They Actually do Get More Money’: Using Myths in Justifying Hierarchies in Ethnic Relations

Ryynänen,

Nortio,

Varjonen

2024

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

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“…Indeed, instead of consistently voicing explicit hostility and criticism against their 'enemies' (Bauvois et al, 2022), the radical right can also strategically piggyback on the journalistic media's legitimacy. By being highly selective with which passages they quote and paraphrase, the radical right can effectively hijack the news cycle with the alleged support from 'unexpected allies' in the mainstream media.…”

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In Search for Unexpected Allies? Radical Right Remediation of ‘the 2015 Refugee Crisis’ on Social Media

Bauvois

Pyrhönen

2022

Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology

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This chapter analyses the remediation of the mainstream news cycle on the ‘refugee crisis’ to the social media audiences of two Finnish anti-immigration groups, namely ‘Close the Borders!’ and ‘Finland First’. The analysis focuses on the post-truth tropes employed by these groups as practices for subverting information and interpretations originally sourced to epistemic authorities. In doing so, the chapter provides a more nuanced approach to the post-truth tropes where the generation of ‘fake news’ and explicit disinformation is only the tip of the iceberg. The results show that by harnessing careful and context-sensitive remediation practices, the radical right is effectively able to hijack the news cycle with the alleged support from ‘unlikely allies’ among epistemic authorities.

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Protecting the future ‘Us’: a rhetoric-performative multimodal analysis of the polarising far-right YouTube campaign videos in Finland

Salojärvi,

Palonen,

Horsmanheimo

et al. 2023

Visual Studies

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Underdogs Shepherding the Flock—Discursive Outgrouping of ‘the Internal Enemy’ in Online Discussions

Cited by 3 publications

References 46 publications

‘They Actually do Get More Money’: Using Myths in Justifying Hierarchies in Ethnic Relations

‘They Actually do Get More Money’: Using Myths in Justifying Hierarchies in Ethnic Relations

In Search for Unexpected Allies? Radical Right Remediation of ‘the 2015 Refugee Crisis’ on Social Media

Protecting the future ‘Us’: a rhetoric-performative multimodal analysis of the polarising far-right YouTube campaign videos in Finland

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