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This timely intervention exposes the euphemized language of the extreme right as a deceptive attempt to secure greater influence over public policy. Since the end of World War II, the extreme right...
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This timely intervention exposes the euphemized language of the extreme right as a deceptive attempt to secure greater influence over public policy. Since the end of World War II, the extreme right has made strategic use of "doublespeak," which apes the language of liberal democracy. Attentive observation and accurate recognition of these tactics means taking the extreme right's deliberately crafted slogans, symbols, and themes seriously. These essays investigate the extreme right's attempts at "repackaging" contemporary ultranationalism to make it more palatable to mainstream European and American tastes.
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Pages: 336
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Imprint: Ibidem Press
Series: Explorations of the Far Right
Publication Date: 01 March 2014
Trim Size: 8.27 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783838205540
Format: Paperback
BISACs: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Social History
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Interesting books address relevant issues, study largely neglected cases, or provoke further research by raising new questions with its answers to old ones. Doublespeak does all of this and more, making it an important contribution to the literature on the far right for scholars and students from a broad variety of academic disciplines.

Matthew Feldman is a reader in contemporary history at Teesside University, a senior research fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway, and a senior researcher with the Cantemir Institute, University of Oxford.

Paul Jackson is coeditor of Wiley-Blackwell's online journal Compass: Political Religions, an editor of the Mapping the Far Right book series, and an associate editor of the Historicising Modernism book series.

Introduction, by Matthew Feldman and Paul Jackson
Part 1. Manipulation of the Masses
1. 'Lingua Quarti Imperii': The Euphemistic in the Extreme Right, by Roger Griffin
2. Toxic Rhetoric: The Language of The Turner Diaries: A Novel, by Janet Wilson
3. 2083—a European Declaration of Independence: A License to Kill, by Paul Jackson
4. The Strategy of Discursive Provocation: A Discourse-Historical Analysis of the FPÖ's Discriminatory Rhetoric, by Ruth Wodak
Part 2. Western Europe and the USA
5. 'Teaching the Truth to the Harcore': The Public and Private Presentation of BNP Ideology, by Graham Macklin
6. Wavering Between Radical and Moderate: The Discourse of the Vlaams Belang in Flanders (Belgium), by Hilde Coffé and Jeroen Dewulf
7. Defending Dutch Freedom: The Far Right in the Netherlands: 1932–2012, by Koen Vossen
8. Far Right Rhetoric in the United States: A Carnival of Buncombe, by Leonard Weinberg
Part 3. Central, Southern, and Eastern Europe
9. A Cast Study of Anti-Semitism in the Language and Politics of the Contemporary Far Right in Germany, by Gideon Botsch and Christoph Kopke
10. 'Fascism for the Third Millennium': An Overview of Language and Ideology in Italy's CasaPound Movement, by Anna Castriota and Matthew Feldman
11. Anti-Semitism on the Curriculum: MAUP—the Interregional Assumbly for Personnel Management, by Per Anders Rudling
12. Language of Authorities and Radical Nationalists, by Alexander Verkhovsky
Part 4. Afterword
12. Heroes Know Which Villains to Kill: How Coded Rhetoric Incites Scripted Violence, by Chip Berlet
Index