[ecrea] CFP: Communication, Culture, & Critique Special Issue: Media and the Extreme Right

Special Issue:* Media and the Extreme Right*

Edited by Laurie Ouellette and Sarah Banet-Weiser

Abstracts Due: March 15, 2017


The past few years have seen the increased visibility of misogyny, 
racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, nativism, and white 
nationalism on a global scale. Often mobilized by populist rhetoric and 
sentiment, this rightward political turn has been folded into policy, 
law, and infrastructure. The UK voted to leave the European Union in 
“Brexit” on an anti-immigration platform.  The United States elected 
Donald Trump as President, a candidate who ran on a platform of racism, 
misogyny and xenophobia, and in his first week as President signed an 
executive order banning citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries from 
entering the US.  France has seen rising support for the National Front 
party, led by Marine Le Pen, who advocates for stopping free movement at 
the French border and protectionist economic policies to put “France 
first,” and the ultra-conservative Alternative for Germany (AfD), and 
the Party for Freedom Party (PVV) in the Netherlands have also gained 
currency in recent years.


Contemporary media and communication platforms are crucial to the growth 
and operations of today’s extreme right movements. From the 
proliferation of “fake news,” to the suppression of government agencies 
and journalists, to the use of social media platforms such as Twitter by 
politicians to “brand” themselves as populists and reach mass 
constituents, to openly partisan media channels like Fox News, the 
current media conjecture plays a complicated and sometimes contradictory 
role in truth-making and political mobilization.   We cannot understand 
the spectacular visibility and political affectivity of the extreme 
right without addressing the place of media, from cable networks to 
interactive social media platforms.


This special issue examines the role of old and new media in extreme 
right politics from a critical perspective, asking how rightwing 
movements have gained traction in an increasingly censorial, but also 
interactive and politically branded media culture in which resistance is 
often linked to media participation and fandom and citizenship are 
increasingly intertwined. We seek to place these questions within a 
global context, and welcome scholarship that looks beyond the United 
States to the particularities of extreme right media culture worldwide.


Topics for analysis include (but are not limited to):


• The ways gender and sexuality are articulated, shaped, distorted, and 
transformed by extreme right media and the gendering of media platforms 
and channels


• Intersections of gender, race, class, nationalism and sexuality in the 
mediation and branding of extreme right politicians and movements


• The media’s role in defining and mobilizing populism, and the 
difference between the ‘popular’ and populist extreme right movements


• The role of increasingly fragmented and branded media forms and 
platforms in the production and circulation of extreme right politicians 
and political culture


• Blurring boundaries between media consumption and political belonging 
and participation


• The role of media (including digital media platforms) in new forms of 
resistance to the extreme right


• The role of affect in extreme right political discourse and media culture

We plan to include articles of *6,500-7,000 words *(including 
references) for this special issue. Individuals or co-authors should 
submit abstracts (up to 500 words) by March 15^th to both Laurie 
Ouellette ((ouell031 /at/ umn.edu)) <mailto:(ouell031 /at/ umn.edu))> and Sarah 
Banet-Weiser ((sbanet /at/ usc.edu)) <mailto:(sbanet /at/ usc.edu))>.  Full 
manuscripts will be due by *July 1 2017*. All contributions will be 
subjected to double blind peer review and the style guidelines of the 
journal.

About the Journal: 
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1753-9137/homepage/ProductInformation.html


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