{"id":1165,"date":"2020-02-03T15:05:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T15:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/factor\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2020-02-03T15:23:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T15:23:23","slug":"barber-the-reframing-of-rape-in-extremist-online-discourses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/factor\/2020\/02\/03\/barber-the-reframing-of-rape-in-extremist-online-discourses\/","title":{"rendered":"Barber – The Reframing of Rape in Extremist Online Discourses"},"content":{"rendered":"

The FORGE is delighted to announce our external guest speaker: Kate Barber<\/a> (T<\/a>) (Cardiff University). Details of her talk are below:<\/p>\n

TITLE<\/em><\/strong>
\nThe reframing of rape in extremist online discourses<\/strong><\/p>\n

NOTES<\/em><\/strong>
\nTHIS TALK IS ON A TOPIC, AND WILL CONTAIN EXTRACTS OF DATA, THAT SOME MAY FIND DISTRESSING.<\/p>\n

DISCRETION IS STRONGLY ADVISED.<\/p>\n

ABSTRACT<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Linguistic analyses of far-right discourses have traditionally focused on nationalist rhetoric or racist and ethnoreligious-based invective. The explicit anti-feminist stance held by some far-right groups, specifically in relation to sexual offences against women, remains underexplored. This paper outlines initial findings from an ongoing corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of 100 blog posts on sites identifying as belonging to the Alternative Right (Alt-Right) or the right-wing men\u2019s activist movement known as the Manosphere. While these factions can be distinguished by their primary concerns towards racial diversity (Alt-Right), and men\u2019s rights (Manosphere), this study aims to highlight how their discourses converge in their portrayal of victims and perpetrators of sexual violence against women.<\/p>\n

This paper outlines preliminary findings from the second and third year of my PhD research. Using corpus linguistics and a discourse analytical framework based largely on van Dijk\u2019s (1984) and Koller\u2019s (2012) sociocognitive approach to discourse studies and collective identity analysis, the paper discusses how inhabited and ascribed identities promote white male victimhood and portray the mainstream concept of rape culture as a \u2018feminist-produced moral panic\u2019 (Gotell & Dutton 2016, p. 65). The presentation includes details of the network analysis I undertook in order to locate the online websites and blogs from which I selected my data; corpora construction; and a comparative analysis of racist and misogynistic constructions of identity in narrative and non-narrative discourses. Finally, some of the ongoing challenges this research has presented will be discussed along with the importance of applying linguistic analyses to develop inoculation narratives (Braddock 2019) and other counter-extremism measures.<\/p>\n

References
\nBraddock, K. (2019). Vaccinating Against Hate: Using Attitudinal Inoculation to Confer Resistance to Persuasion by Extremist Propaganda. Terrorism and Political Violence<\/em>. DOI: 10.1080\/09546553.2019.1693370
\nGotell, L. & Dutton, E. (2016). Sexual Violence in the \u2018Manosphere\u2019: Antifeminist Men\u2019s Rights Discourses on Rape. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy<\/em>. 5(2), 65-80.
\nKoller, V. (2012). How to Analyse Collective Identity in Discourse \u2013 Textual and Contextual Parameters. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines<\/em>. 5(2), 19-38.
\nvan Dijk, T.A. (1984). Prejudice and Discourse<\/em>. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.<\/p>\n

The talk will be approximately 30-40 minutes in total, with around 10-20 minutes at the end for Q&A.<\/p>\n

TIME & PLACE<\/em><\/strong>
\n1400-1500, Thu 13th Feb, County South D72.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All are welcome to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FORGE is delighted to announce our external guest speaker: Kate Barber (T) (Cardiff University). Details of her talk are below: TITLE The reframing of rape in extremist online discourses NOTES THIS TALK IS ON A TOPIC, AND WILL CONTAIN EXTRACTS OF DATA, THAT SOME MAY FIND DISTRESSING. DISCRETION IS STRONGLY ADVISED. ABSTRACT Linguistic analyses […]","protected":false},"author":932,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"episode_featured_image":false,"episode_player_image":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/factor\/files\/2018\/11\/cover_2000.png?fit=2000%2C2000&ssl=1","download_link":"","player_link":"","audio_player":false,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/factor\/feed\/podcast\/the-forge","embedCode":"

Barber – The Reframing of Rape in Extremist Online Discourses<\/a><\/blockquote>