On the proximity of the far right and the misuses of the ‘mainstreaming’ metaphor.
"Pitfalls of the mainstreaming explanation for contemporary far-right political violence."
"Liberalism’s arc of self-narration: To keep the unnamed political system unnamed, and its unspoken grammar silent."
L. Gillespie argues that "the mainstreaming explanation of far-right violence purports to acknowledge the existence, scope and severity of racism and white supremacy, that nevertheless, when drawn upon carelessly it can paradoxically work to temporalize and circumscribe the far right by portraying it as an aberration of the liberal multicultural nation, rather than an expression of its foundational logics. "
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Gillespie, L. (2024). On the proximity of the far right and the misuses of the ‘mainstreaming’ metaphor. Identities, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2024.2442197
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