Special Issue Article
They Called a War, and Someone Came: The communicative politics of Breivik’s ideoscape
Author:
Gavan Titley
Centre for Media Studies, National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM), IE
Abstract
This article examines the intensely mediated debate on the relationship between ideological affinity and political implication that followed the documenting of the ‘citational ecology’ of Breivik’s 2083 compendium. Focusing on the recurring trope of war in counter-jihad blog posts and mainstream media comment, it argues that the invocation of ‘war’ is important beyond limiting debates on incitement and ‘moral responsibility’. Following Butler (2009), it examines this ‘frame of war’ and its poetics as the condition of counter-jihad networks and as the licence for mainstream polemics on the ‘failed experiment’ of multiculturalism.
How to Cite:
Titley, G., 2013. They Called a War, and Someone Came: The communicative politics of Breivik’s ideoscape. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 3(4), pp.216–224. DOI: http://doi.org/10.2478/njmr-2013-0014
Published on
01 Dec 2013.
Peer Reviewed
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