Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism
In between antiracist and racist discourse
1st Edition
Published on 15. February 2024
302 pages
978-90-272-4723-0 (ISBN)
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The ongoing migration 'crisis' in European countries (2015 to date) has fostered different stances and practices within European nation-states, ranging from xenophobia to solidarity. In this context, two contradictory discourses seem to coexist: the national racist discourse and the humanitarian, antiracist one. This volume brings together studies investigating diverse semiotic strategies through which liquid racism emerges, which consists of ambiguities and contradictory interpretations due to the fact that racist views infiltrate discourse intended as antiracist. The volume includes critical and pragmatic analyses of texts coming from various sources, such as news articles, parliamentary discourse, political cartoons, video clips, advertising campaigns based on personal stories, and jokes. It is an outcome of the research project "TRACE: Tracing Racism in Anti-raCist discoursE: A critical approach to European public speech on the migrant and refugee crisis" (HFRI-FM17-42, HFRI 2019-2022, Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation).
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Content
- Intro
- Chapter 1 Antiracist and racist discourse as antagonistic and overlapping
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Discourse3
- 3. Racist discourse
- 4. Antiracist discourse
- 5. The interplay among silent racism, everyday racism, and institutional racism
- 6. From contemporary racism to racist assimilation and internalized racism
- 7. Liquid racism in antiracist discourse
- 8. Project description and overview of the chapters
- 9. Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 2 Racist discourses of discrimination and assimilation in an antiracist corpus
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Approaching racist and antiracist discourse
- 3. The Greek antiracist corpus
- 4. Methodological tools for critical analysis
- 5. Racist categories in the antiracist corpus
- 5.1 Discrimination
- 5.1.1 References to Others as a problem
- 5.1.2 References to illegal/legal Others
- 5.1.3 References to anonymous Others
- 5.1.4 References to temporary Others
- 5.1.5 References to inactive Others
- 5.1.6 References to Others as victims
- 5.1.7 References to Others as recipients of help
- 5.2 Assimilation
- 5.2.1 (General) references to integration/inclusion practices
- 5.2.2 References to mitigated racism denouncements
- 5.2.3 References to learning Greek as an L2
- 5.2.4 References to migrants' positive stance towards practices of integration
- 6. The quantitative analysis of liquid racism in the antiracist corpus
- 7. Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 3 Normalizing assimilation in antiracist (con)texts and (re)producing liquid racism
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theoretical premises
- 3. Methodological considerations
- 3.1 Studying representational meaning(s)
- 3.2 Zooming in on argumentative inference(s)
- 4. Data analysis
- 4.1 Kyriakos Mitsotakis on migration
- 4.2 Alexis Tsipras on migration
- 5. Discussion and conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 4 What culture?
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Berry's model of acculturation
- 3. Liquid racism and ambivalence
- 4. Method
- 4.1 The context of the study
- 4.2 Participants and interviewing
- 4.3 Coding and analytical method
- 5. Analysis
- 5.1 Greece as an exemplar country of law and order
- 5.2 Adaptation to the European culture
- 5.3 Creating cultural distance through the role of women in Muslim societies
- 5.4 Banal10 culture and cultural adaptation
- 6. Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 5 Liquid racism, metaphor and the visual modality
- 1. Liquid racism
- 2. The critical study of discourse
- 3. Metaphor and the discursive (re)production of racism
- 4. Metaphor, liquid racism's ambivalence, and the visual modality
- 5. Visual metaphor in Greek political cartoons on the refugee 'crisis'
- 5.1 Criticizing the authorities
- 5.2 Inducing sympathy towards migrants
- 6. Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 6 Migrant voices in 'antiracist' video clips in Greece
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Discursive constructions and shifts for the preservation of national homogenization
- 3. The Greek national homogenizing discourse and the refugee 'crisis'
- 4. Methodology
- 4.1 Textual material
- 4.2 Analytical framework
- 5. Analysis
- 5.1 The discursive strategy of positionality
- 5.2 The discursive strategy of relationality
- 5.3 The discursive strategy of perspectivization
- 6. Conclusions
- References
- Appendix 1. Video transcripts
- Video 1. "Greece
- Video 2. "Taha's story"
- Video 3. "Advice from refugees in Greece to other refugees and displaced around the World" (CRS/Caritas Greece 2020)
- Appendix 2. Synopsis of the analysis of positionality
- Appendix 3. Synopsis of the analysis of relationality
- Chapter 7 "The EU gave us a new beginning"
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Mediated storytelling and migration
- 3. Narratives as practices
- 4. The EU Protects campaign, data, research questions and methods
- 5. Analysis
- 5.1 Emergence of the story "The journey of an asylum seeker"
- 5.2 Wholeness
- 5.3 Embedding
- 6. Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 8 "Wouldn't it be better for me to earn my own money and pay taxes?"
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Racism
- 3. 'The nation and its people'
- 4. Identity and narrative positioning
- 5. The data of the study2
- 6. Analysis
- 6.1 Fulfillment identities
- 6.2 Deviant identities
- 7. Discussion and final remarks
- References
- Chapter 9 A migrant's public apology as an instance of internalized racism
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Macro-level
- 2.1 The racio-national discourse
- 2.2 How racio-national discourse becomes covert and internalized
- 2.3 Migrants' internalization of racism within the Greek context
- 3. The data of the case study
- 4. Micro-level
- 4.1 The genre of public apologies
- 4.2 Data analysis
- 5. Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 10 Racist and antiracist discourse in Greek migrant/refugee jokes
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theoretical framework
- 2.1 Racist and antiracist discourse
- 2.2 Humor and liquid racism
- 3. A multiliteracies teaching proposal
- 3.1 Jokes, liquid racism, and critical literacy
- 3.2 The multiliteracies model
- 4. Multiliteracies and jokes with liquid racism
- 4.1 Experiencing
- 4.1.1 Experiencing the known
- 4.1.2 Experiencing the new
- 4.2 Conceptualizing
- 4.2.1 Conceptualizing by naming
- 4.2.2 Conceptualizing with theory
- 4.3 Analyzing
- 4.3.1 Analyzing functionally
- 4.3.2 Analyzing critically
- 4.4 Applying
- 4.4.1 Applying appropriately
- 4.4.2 Applying creatively
- 5. Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Chapter 11 Epilogue
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Liquid racism and its operationalizations
- 3. Reflections
- References
- Notes on contributors
- Name index
- Subject index
