Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives hero image.
Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives

In a political context that has resulted in a resurgence of openly xenophobic discourses about migration, where narratives about the refugee crisis arising from the war in Syria, discourses of national sovereignty, and criticisms of freedom of movement in the EU have become intertwined in mass media contexts, this special collection shows how the online activities of the right are contributing to the normalization of more extreme racialized discourses.

Populist politics, however, has not gone unchallenged. Despite digital media being criticised for their political limitations (due to economic and structural factors), they have nonetheless been seen as a site for the formation of counter-narratives. With a focus on the frictions surrounding these media platforms, this special collection delineates some of the tensions associated with counter-narrative formation. As well as exploring key instances of the formation of counter-narratives, and the conditions that facilitate their emergence and circulation, this collection shows some of the difficulties in contesting right-wing discourses about race and in doing so resists a reductive analysis. While each article builds up a multi-layered picture of a media environment in which xenophobic sentiment has become increasingly visible, as a whole the special collection also offers a clearer sense of the possibilities for critique and intervention.

This Special Collection is edited by Dr Elizabeth Poole (Keele) and Dr Eva Giraud (Keele).

Photo by Jon Tyson unsplash-logoJon Tyson on Unsplash


Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives

Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives Special Collection
Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives Special Collection

Elizabeth Poole and Eva Giraud

2019-04-18 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2019 • 31

Also a part of:

Special Collection: Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives

Voices of White Resistance: Democratic Theory and the Task of Contending with White Nationalist Voice
Voices of White Resistance: Democratic Theory and the Task of Contending with White Nationalist Voice

Kevan A. Feshami

2018-11-30 Volume 4 • Issue 2 • 2018 • 39

Also a part of:

Special Collection: Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives

‘Liberation Begins with Stating the Facts’: Framing Statistics and Information Bricolage in Geert Wilders’ Twitter Practice
‘Liberation Begins with Stating the Facts’: Framing Statistics and Information Bricolage in Geert Wilders’ Twitter Practice

Iris Muis, Gerwin van Schie, Maranke Wieringa and Tim de Winkel

2019-01-03 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2019 • 1

Also a part of:

Special Collection: Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives

Contesting #StopIslam: The Dynamics of a Counter-narrative Against Right-wing Populism
Contesting #StopIslam: The Dynamics of a Counter-narrative Against Right-wing Populism

Elizabeth Poole, Eva Giraud and Ed de Quincey

2019-01-18 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2019 • 5

Also a part of:

Special Collection: Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives

Organised and Ambient Digital Racism: Multidirectional Flows in the Irish Digital Sphere
Organised and Ambient Digital Racism: Multidirectional Flows in the Irish Digital Sphere

Eugenia Siapera

2019-02-08 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2019 • 13

Also a part of:

Special Collection: Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives

Some Human’s Rights: Neocolonial Discourses of Otherness in the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis
Some Human’s Rights: Neocolonial Discourses of Otherness in the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis

Siobhan Holohan

2019-04-05 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2019 • 27

Also a part of:

Special Collection: Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives

  • 1 

Special Collections