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Staged Dissent – »Change My Mind« as a Vehicle of Instrumental Deliberation within the Identitäre Bewegung Österreich

Contribution

Jonas Trochemowitz & Lara Herford

2024

In this paper Jonas Trochemowitz and Lara Herford aim to analyze the talking format of Change my Mind by Steven Crowder and its adaptation by the former spokesperson of the right-wing extremist group Identitäre Bewegung in Austria. By employing the concept of ›genre of dissent‹ we ask the question how democratic values of deliberation are strategically used to gain legitimacy for far right positions in discourse. A key aspect is how these strategies relate to practices of self-marginalisation in the sense of mimicry of marginality. As a model for dismantling and criticising these practices we suggest the concept of instrumental deliberation.

Trochemowitz, Jonas & Lara Herford. 2024. Staged Dissent. »Change My Mind« as a Vehicle of Instrumental Deliberation within the Identitäre Bewegung Österreich. Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung 2023 (2). S. 163–186.

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ISSN: 2195-867X

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DOI: 10.3262/ZFD2302163

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