TY  - JOUR
AU  - Salazar, Philippe-Joseph
JF  - Javnost-The Public
TI  - The Alt-Right as a Community of Discourse
VL  - 25
IS  - 1
PY  - 2018
SN  - 1854-8377
PB  - EURICOM
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2018.1423947
N2  - This paper suggests ways to examine the American Alt-Right as a community of discourse. It relies on Michel Foucault’s notion that discourse is marked by external procedures of prohibition, division and will to truth, and it shows how the Alt-Right owes its powerful emergence in the public sphere to these procedures. It concludes with a brief recall that internal procedures also shape a community of discourse, by giving its actors access to commentary, providing the community with a sense of shared authorship and leading to a “fellowship” of discourse. This paper was researched and written before the Charlottesville fracas (12 August 2017) that propelled the Alt-Right into the limelight, and further obscured its discursive construction.
U1  - Print ISSN: 1318-3222
ER  -