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Krzyzanowski, MichalORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0003-4073-2831
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Krzyzanowski, M. (2020). Discursive shifts and the normalisation of racism: imaginaries of immigration, moral panics and the discourse of contemporary right-wing populism. Social Semiotics, 30(4), 503-527
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Discursive shifts and the normalisation of racism: imaginaries of immigration, moral panics and the discourse of contemporary right-wing populism
2020 (English)In: Social Semiotics, ISSN 1035-0330, E-ISSN 1470-1219, Vol. 30, no 4, p. 503-527Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Looking at mediated, political and wider public discourses on immigration in Poland since 2015 and exploring these in the context of the country's right-wing populist politics, the paper develops a multi-step normalisation model which allows analysing how radical or often blatantly racist discourse can not only be strategically introduced into the public domain but also evolve into an acceptable and legitimate perspective inperceptions of immigrants and refugees. The paper highlights the strategic as well as opportunistic introduction of anti-immigration rhetoric in/by the political mainstream in Poland in recent years, often on the back of the so-called post-2014 European "Refugee Crisis". It explores normalisation as part and parcel of a wider multistep process of strategically orchestrated discursive shifts wherein discourses characterised by extreme positions have been enacted, gradated/perpetuated and eventually normalisedas an integral part of pronounced right-wing populist agenda. The paperfurthers a view that normalisation entails the creation and sustainment of a peculiar borderline discourse wherein unmitigated radical statements are often married with seemingly civil and apparently politically correct language and argumentation. The latter are used to pre-/legitimise uncivil or even outright radical positions and ideologies by rationalising them and making them into acceptable elements of public discourse.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2020
Keywords
Normalisation, discursive shifts, right-wing populism, immigration, racism
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-84512 (URN)10.1080/10350330.2020.1766199 (DOI)000542433900001 ()2-s2.0-85084612176 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2016-05464 2019-03354
Available from: 2020-08-13 Created: 2020-08-13 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Krzyzanowski, M. (2019). Brexit and the imaginary of ‘crisis’: a discourse-conceptual analysis of European news media. Critical Discourse Studies, 16(4), 465-490
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Brexit and the imaginary of ‘crisis’: a discourse-conceptual analysis of European news media
2019 (English)In: Critical Discourse Studies, ISSN 1740-5904, E-ISSN 1740-5912, Vol. 16, no 4, p. 465-490Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article explores the discourse-conceptual linkages between ‘Brexit’ and ‘crisis’ in European news media reporting about the UK referendum on leaving the European Union of 23 June 2016. The study examines media discourse about the Brexit vote in Austria, Germany, Poland and Sweden at the transformative moment in between the pre/after vote period. The conceptuallyoriented critical discourse analysis shows how Brexit was not only constructed as an imaginary or a future crisis but also how its mediated visions were made real by recontextualising elements of various past social/political/economic crises. As is shown, such a strategy of discursively amalgamating the real and the imaginary, as well as the experienced/past and the expected/future, often allowed constructing Brexit as one of the most significant, critical occurrences of post-War Europe. Through the analysis, the article aims to show how wide and diverse the importance of ‘Brexit as crisis’ has been for European news media discourse. It also emphasises that while in the UK itself – including huge part of the UK traditional media – the critical nature of Brexit was often strategically downplayed, the wider European discourse would see it as a multifaceted ‘crisis’ of huge significance to both the present and the future of the EU, wider Europe and the world.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2019
Keywords
Discourse-conceptual analysis, nems media, recontextualisation, imaginary, Brexit, crisis
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-74802 (URN)10.1080/17405904.2019.1592001 (DOI)000474308500007 ()2-s2.0-85062948159 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2019-06-26 Created: 2019-06-26 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Zappettini, F. & Krzyzanowski, M. (Eds.). (2019). “Brexit" as a Social & Political Crisis: Discourses in Media & Politics. London: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>“Brexit" as a Social & Political Crisis: Discourses in Media & Politics
2019 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Routledge, 2019
Series
Critical Discourse Studies, ISSN 1740-5904, E-ISSN 1740-5912 ; 16:4
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-74806 (URN)
Available from: 2019-06-26 Created: 2019-06-26 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Zappettini, F. & Krzyzanowski, M. (2019). The critical juncture of Brexit in media & political discourses: from national-populist imaginary to cross-national social and political crisis. Critical Discourse Studies, 16(4), 381-388
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The critical juncture of Brexit in media & political discourses: from national-populist imaginary to cross-national social and political crisis
2019 (English)In: Critical Discourse Studies, ISSN 1740-5904, E-ISSN 1740-5912, Vol. 16, no 4, p. 381-388Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2019
Keywords
Brexit, critical juncture, crisis, critical discourse analysis, mediatisation, politicisation
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-74805 (URN)10.1080/17405904.2019.1592767 (DOI)000474308500001 ()2-s2.0-85062971595 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2019-06-26 Created: 2019-06-26 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Krzyzanowska, N. & Krzyzanowski, M. (2018). "Crisis' and Migration in Poland: Discursive Shifts, Anti-Pluralism and the Politicisation of Exclusion. Sociology, 52(3), 612-618
Open this publication in new window or tab >>"Crisis' and Migration in Poland: Discursive Shifts, Anti-Pluralism and the Politicisation of Exclusion
2018 (English)In: Sociology, ISSN 0038-0385, E-ISSN 1469-8684, Vol. 52, no 3, p. 612-618Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This essay illustrates the extent to which crisis has had an impact on public perceptions and discourses of contemporary migration in Poland. We focus on the actual moment of the coming together' between crisis- and immigration-related discourses and argue that this connection has arisen as part of the recent political strategies of Poland's right-wing populist government Law and Justice' (PiS) party. The strong anti-immigration and anti-refugee rhetoric orchestrated by PiS across the Polish public sphere has also played a pivotal role in countenancing xenophobic as well as outright racist sentiments in wider Polish public discourse and society.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2018
Keywords
Anti-refugee rhetoric, crisis, discursive shifts, migration, Poland, public sphere
National Category
Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology) Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-67333 (URN)10.1177/0038038518757952 (DOI)000434187000013 ()2-s2.0-85048019144 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2018-06-20 Created: 2018-06-20 Last updated: 2025-01-31Bibliographically approved
Krzyzanowski, M. & Machin, D. (2018). Critical approaches: Media analysis in/and critical discourse studies. In: Colleen Cotter, Daniel Perrin (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of language and media: (pp. 62-76). New York: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Critical approaches: Media analysis in/and critical discourse studies
2018 (English)In: The Routledge handbook of language and media / [ed] Colleen Cotter, Daniel Perrin, New York: Routledge, 2018, p. 62-76Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
New York: Routledge, 2018
Series
Routledge handbooks in linguistics
National Category
General Language Studies and Linguistics Media and Communication Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-62853 (URN)9781138014176 (ISBN)9781315673134 (ISBN)
Available from: 2017-11-27 Created: 2017-11-27 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved
Krzyzanowski, M. (2018). Discursive Shifts in Ethno-Nationalist Politics: On Politicization and Mediatization of the “Refugee Crisis” in Poland. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 16(1-2), 76-96
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Discursive Shifts in Ethno-Nationalist Politics: On Politicization and Mediatization of the “Refugee Crisis” in Poland
2018 (English)In: Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, ISSN 1556-2948, E-ISSN 1556-2956, Vol. 16, no 1-2, p. 76-96Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This paper analyzes politicization and mediatization of immigration in Poland in the context of the recent European "refugee crisis." Although largely absent from Polish political discourse after 1989, anti-refugee and anti-immigration rhetoric has recently become extremely politically potent in Poland. The analysis shows that, soon taken over by other political groups, the new anti-immigration discourses have been enacted in Poland's public sphere by the right-wing populist party PiS (Law and Justice). Its discourse in offline and online media has drawn on discursive patterns including Islamophobia, Euro-scepticism, anti-internationalism, and historical patterns and templates of discrimination such as anti-Semitism.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2018
Keywords
"Refugee crisis", Poland, anti-immigration rhetoric, critical discourse studies, right-wing populism, politicization, mediatization
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-68953 (URN)10.1080/15562948.2017.1317897 (DOI)000431213700005 ()2-s2.0-85030549306 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 21-2013-1498
Available from: 2018-09-17 Created: 2018-09-17 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Krzyzanowski, M. (2018). Ethnography and Critical Discourse Studies. In: John Flowerdew and John E. Richardson (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of critical discourse studies: (pp. 179-195). London: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Ethnography and Critical Discourse Studies
2018 (English)In: The Routledge handbook of critical discourse studies / [ed] John Flowerdew and John E. Richardson, London: Routledge, 2018, p. 179-195Chapter in book (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Routledge, 2018
National Category
Media and Communications General Language Studies and Linguistics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-62138 (URN)9781138826403 (ISBN)9781315739342 (ISBN)
Available from: 2017-11-05 Created: 2017-11-05 Last updated: 2025-01-31Bibliographically approved
Krzyzanowski, M., Triandafyllidou, A. & Wodak, R. (Eds.). (2018). Mediatization and Politicization of Refugee Crisis in Europe. London: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Mediatization and Politicization of Refugee Crisis in Europe
2018 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Routledge, 2018. p. 216
Series
Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, ISSN 1556-2948, E-ISSN 1556-2956 ; 16(1-2)
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-71403 (URN)10.1080/15562948.2017.1353189 (DOI)000431213700001 ()2-s2.0-85043508820 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2019-01-11 Created: 2019-01-11 Last updated: 2025-02-07Bibliographically approved
Krzyzanowski, M. & Tucker, J. A. (Eds.). (2018). Re/constructing Politics Through Social & Online Media: Discourses, Ideologies, and Mediated Political Practices. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Re/constructing Politics Through Social & Online Media: Discourses, Ideologies, and Mediated Political Practices
2018 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018. p. 202
Series
Journal of Language and Politics, ISSN 1569-2159, E-ISSN 1569-9862 ; 17:2
National Category
Media and Communications Political Science
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-71055 (URN)
Available from: 2018-12-28 Created: 2018-12-28 Last updated: 2025-01-31Bibliographically approved
Projects
Immigration and the Normalization of Racism: Discursive Shifts in Swedish Politics and Media 2010-22 [2019-03354_VR]; Uppsala UniversityResearch Network on Digital Politics; Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Center for Integrated Research on Culture and Society (CIRCUS)
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