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Introduction: A Discourse Analytical Approach to Researching Mediated Political Communication Read chapter Read first chapter

2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

11. The Performances of Right-Wing Populism: Populist Discourse‚ Embodied Styles and Forms of News Reporting

Authors : Mats Ekström, Andrew Morton

Published in: The Mediated Politics of Europe

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The 2014 European Parliament elections defined a key ‘moment in time’ in European politics, a moment in time marked principally by the rise of right-wing populist parties. In this chapter, Ekström and Morton analyse the mediated performances of populist leaders to ask two questions. Firstly, what constitutes the performances and the appeal to the people articulated in television news and current affairs across countries? Secondly, how has television news journalism responded to the challenges of reporting on an increasingly prominent political populism? The study shows general features of populist discourse, rhetorical strategies and claims of exclusively representing ‘the people’. It also presents significant differences in the embodied styles of individual politicians and how the performed cultural identities of the populist politicians resonate myths and stereotypes in the specific national contexts. Finally, the comparative analyses demonstrate the ambivalence of a journalism exposing populist politicians for extraordinary critical interrogations and providing favourable environments for the performances of populism.

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Footnotes
1
Colloquial term for a kitchen apron.
 
2
This came after an incident where a Golden Dawn MP slapped a former female journalist and current MP of the Greek communist party on the face on air during a live morning TV talk show on 7 June 2012.
 
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Metadata
Title
The Performances of Right-Wing Populism: Populist Discourse‚ Embodied Styles and Forms of News Reporting
Authors
Mats Ekström
Andrew Morton
Copyright Year
2017
Book
The Mediated Politics of Europe

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-56628-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-56629-0

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56629-0_11