Identity Politics Past and Present by Ruth Wodak

Identity Politics Past and Present by Ruth Wodak

This book traces the re-emergence of nationalism in the media, popular culture and politics, and the normalization of far-right nativist ideologies and attitudes in Austria between 1995 and 2015, within the framework of Critical Discourse Studies. In doing so, it brings together a range of theoretical and empirical approaches to identity politics, contemporary popular culture, far-right populism and commemoration. While contradictory yet intertwined tendencies towards renationalization and transnationalization have often framed debates about European identities, the so-called refugee crisis of 2015 intensified and polarized these debates. The COVID-19 pandemic, as another major crisis, saw nation-states react by closing borders, while symbols of banal nationalism proliferated. The data under discussion here, drawn from a variety of empirical studies, suggest that changes in memory politics-the way past events are collectively remembered and tied into current political discourses-are also linked to the dynamics of migration; the influence of financial and climate crises; changing gender politics; and a new transnational European politics of the past. Accordingly, the authors assess current challenges to liberal democracies, as well as fundamental human and constitutional rights, in relation to new trends of renationalization across Europe and beyond.

Ruth Wodak is an internationally renowned expert in sociolinguistics and discourse studies. She is Emerita Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University, UK, and affiliated to the University of Vienna. She was awarded honorary doctorates from Örebro University (2008) and Warwick University (2020). She is a fellow of the Academia Europaea and the British Academy of Social Sciences. Her research interests and publications span a range of fields such as political and media communication; identity and gender politics; racism, antisemitism and xenophobia; discourse studies; far-right populism; and organizational communication. Her most recent monograph is The Politics of Fear: The Shameless Normalization of Far-Right Discourse (2021).

Markus Rheindorf teaches applied linguistics at the University of Vienna and Central European University, and specializes in critical discourse studies and academic writing. He has received fellowships from the International Centre for Cultural Studies and the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. His recent publications include Revisiting the Toolbox of Discourse Studies: New Trajectories in Methodology, Open Data and Visualization (2019).

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ISBN 13	9781905816804
ISBN 10	1905816804
Title	Identity Politics Past and Present
Author	Ruth Wodak
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University of Exeter Press
Year published	2022-03-15
Number of pages	350
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