Journal
POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE
Volume 7, Issue 3, Pages 165-178Publisher
COGITATIO PRESS
DOI: 10.17645/pag.v7i3.2131
Keywords
discourse; media critique; misrepresentation; radical right; representative claims; Schild & Vrienden
Categories
Funding
- Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek-Vlaanderen (FWO) [G062917N]
- VUB Strategic Research Programme: Evaluating Democratic Governance in Europe (2018-2022)
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Criticizing mainstream media for their 'lies' or 'fake news' has become a common political practice on the radical right. Further empirical research is needed to better understand the intricacies of these attacks on media, in particular for the way they relate to criticism of the political system as a whole and to matters of political representation. How do radical right actors construct a sense of political misrepresentation through their critique of media, and how does this allow them to make representative claims? This is what we explore in this article through a discourse analysis of the Flemish radical right youth movement Schild & Vrienden. Drawing inspiration from constructivist theories of representation, we explore the entanglement in empirical practice between two dimensions of representation: 1) between its literal meaning (as 'portrayal') and its political meaning (as standing or speaking for), and 2) between representation and misrepresentation. With our analysis, we shed light on the increasing politicization of the media as a non-electoral space of representation and misrepresentation, and on the role played by media criticism in the radical right's broader (meta)political strategies.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available