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<p>Contemporary France is a prolific arena for post-fascist actors, parties, and movements. Self-proclaimed alternative news outlets and publishing houses serve as forums for information and mobilisation, through various strategies, to resist an alleged onslaught by the enemies of the nation and its people: multiculturalism, feminism, political correctness, political corruption, and civilisational decay. In this article, I explore uncivility as a discursive logic within the French post-fascist media-ecology, focusing on the conspicuous use of irony and discursive displacement. More specifically, I discuss how sardonic irony as an uncivil discursive strategy is employed to navigate the legal boundaries of free speech and how discursive displacement, coupled with irony, is used as an affective identificatory technique in post-fascist discourse.</p>
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Contemporary France is a prolific arena for post-fascist actors, parties, and movements. Self-proclaimed alternative news outlets and publishing houses serve as forums for information and mobilisation, through various strategies, to resist an alleged onslaught by the enemies of the nation and its people: multiculturalism, feminism, political correctness, political corruption, and civilisational decay. In this article, I explore uncivility as a discursive logic within the French post-fascist media-ecology, focusing on the conspicuous use of irony and discursive displacement. More specifically, I discuss how sardonic irony as an uncivil discursive strategy is employed to navigate the legal boundaries of free speech and how discursive displacement, coupled with irony, is used as an affective identificatory technique in post-fascist discourse.

“The new extreme right”: Uncivility, irony, and displacement in the French re-information sphere

Nordicom Review

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Contemporary France is a prolific arena for post-fascist actors, parties, and movements. Self-proclaimed alternative news outlets and publishing houses serve...

“The new extreme right”: Uncivility, irony, and displacement in the French re-information sphere

Published Online: Mar 03, 2021

Page range: 89 - 102

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0008

Keywords
discourse, France, post-fascism, racism, uncivility

© 2021 Per-Erik Nilsson, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

“The new extreme right”: Uncivility, irony, and displacement in the French re-information sphere

Published Online: Mar 03, 2021

Page range: 89 - 102

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0008

Keywordsdiscourse, France, post-fascism, racism, uncivility

© 2021 Per-Erik Nilsson, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
discourse, France, post-fascism, racism, uncivility