Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism In between antiracist and racist discourse Edited by Argiris Archakis and Villy Tsakona

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Archakis, Argiris, editor.

Tsakona, Villy, editor.

Series:

Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 0922-842X 341

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse studies.

Pragmatics.

Local Subjects:

Discourse studies.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 294 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024

Summary:

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). Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Antiracist and racist discourse as antagonistic and overlapping / Argiris Archakis and Villy Tsakona

Chapter 2. Racist discourses of discrimination and assimilation in an antiracist corpus / Rania Karachaliou, Vasia Tsami, Alexis Lazanas and Argiris Archakis

Chapter 3. Normalizing assimilation in antiracist (con)texts and (re)producing liquid racism / Dimitris Serafis

Chapter 4. What culture? / Antonis Sapountzis and Evangelia Zarmakoupi

Chapter 5. Liquid racism, metaphor and the visual modality / Stavros Assimakopoulos and Anna Piata

Chapter 6. Migrant voices in 'antiracist' video clips in Greece / Anastasia G. Stamou and Konstantina Katrana

Chapter 7. "The EU gave us a new beginning" / Korina Giaxoglou and Tereza Spilioti

Chapter 8. "Wouldn't it be better for me to earn my own money and pay taxes?" / Sofia Lampropoulou and Paige Johnson

Chapter 9. A migrant's public apology as an instance of internalized racism / Argiris Archakis and Villy Tsakona

Chapter 10. Racist and antiracist discourse in Greek migrant/refugee jokes / Vasia Tsami, Eirini Skoura and Argiris Archakis

Chapter 11. Epilogue / Sofia Lampropoulou

Notes on contributors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Hardbound version:

ISBN:

9789027247230

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.