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Poppi, Fabio I.M. and Pietro Castelli Gattinara. 2018. Aliud pro alio. Context and narratives within a neo-Nazi community of practice. Journal of Language and Politics 17 (4) : 552–572.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Journal DOI
10.1075/jlp

Annotation

This article explores how narratives create connections between the micro-context and the macro-context, focusing on the narratives produced by a neo-Nazi group within ‘Blood and Honor’, a neo-Nazi gathering in Italy. The analysis presents a series of thematic narratives that describe how the neo-Nazi members see themselves in daily life, with their private and family sphere and how they aim to impact the political and cultural world. From these narratives, it is possible to understand how the neo-Nazi group sees society and justify the marginal role that they occupy in modern society. From this perspective, narratives operate as symbolic practice of identity creation in which members of the group negotiate new images of themselves and of their political and cultural movement. As this article shows, the neo-Nazi members aim to obtain legitimation and recognition in order to express a greater symbolic and social power.