Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism
In between antiracist and racist discourse
Editors
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).
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 341] 2024. viii, 294 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. Antiracist and racist discourse as antagonistic and overlappingArgiris Archakis and Villy Tsakona | pp. 1–40
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Chapter 2. Racist discourses of discrimination and assimilation in an antiracist corpusRania Karachaliou, Vasia Tsami, Alexis Lazanas and Argiris Archakis | pp. 41–70
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Chapter 3. Normalizing assimilation in antiracist (con)texts and (re)producing liquid racism: Argumentative inferences in Greek right- and left‑wing political discoursesDimitris Serafis | pp. 71–92
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Chapter 4. What culture? Supranational cultural norms in the construction of the cultural adaptation of refugee children by employees in an NGO for unaccompanied refugee childrenAntonis Sapountzis and Evangelia Zarmakoupi | pp. 93–117
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Chapter 5. Liquid racism, metaphor and the visual modalityStavros Assimakopoulos and Anna Piata | pp. 118–142
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Chapter 6. Migrant voices in ‘antiracist’ video clips in Greece: Eliteness as a form of liquid racismAnastasia G. Stamou and Konstantina Katrana | pp. 143–180
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Chapter 7. “The EU gave us a new beginning”: Liquid racism and affect in a curated migrant storyKorina Giaxoglou and Tereza Spilioti | pp. 181–201
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Chapter 8. “Wouldn’t it be better for me to earn my own money and pay taxes?”: Liquid racism and the ‘ideal’ refugee in UK charity representations of migrant storiesSofia Lampropoulou and Paige Johnson | pp. 202–224
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Chapter 9. A migrant’s public apology as an instance of internalized racism: A Greek case studyArgiris Archakis and Villy Tsakona | pp. 225–252
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Chapter 10. Racist and antiracist discourse in Greek migrant/refugee jokes: A multiliteracies teaching proposal about liquid racismVasia Tsami, Eirini Skoura and Argiris Archakis | pp. 253–276
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Chapter 11. EpilogueSofia Lampropoulou | pp. 277–282
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Notes on contributors | pp. 283–287
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Name index | pp. 289–291
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Subject index | pp. 293–294
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009030: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics