The Institutionalization of Hatred Politics in the Mediterranean: Studying Corpora of Online News Portals During the European 'Refugee Crisis'.

IF 1.3 2区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

TOPOI-AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-02-08 DOI:10.1007/s11245-023-09890-w

Dimitris Serafis, Franco Zappettini, Stavros Assimakopoulos

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Abstract

This paper aims to study the argumentative basis on which the prevention of migration is justified and hatred politics is institutionalised in three Mediterranean settings, namely Greece, Malta, and Italy, that were at the centre of the so-called 'refugee crisis' in 2015-2017. Following the rubric of corpus-assisted Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), we trace (a) the main meaningful patterns, and (b) discursive and argumentation strategies (topoi) in three balanced corpora of mainstream news portals aligned with centre-right and centre-left political views. Among our main findings, the mobilisation of migrant populations is construed as an extremely polarised issue both in national and EU contexts and claims in favour of its prevention are justified on topoi of danger/threat, numbers and burdening/weighing down.

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地中海地区仇恨政治的制度化：研究欧洲 "难民危机 "期间在线新闻门户网站的内容。

本文旨在研究2015-2017年所谓 "难民危机 "中心的三个地中海地区，即希腊、马耳他和意大利，防止移民的合理性和仇恨政治制度化的论证基础。按照批判性话语研究（Critical Discourse Studies，CDS）的语料库辅助话语史方法（Discourse-Historical Approach，DHA），我们追溯了（a）主要的有意义模式，以及（b）与中右和中左政治观点一致的主流新闻门户网站的三个平衡语料库中的话语和论证策略（toppoi）。我们的主要发现包括：在国家和欧盟背景下，移民人口的动员被视为一个极度两极分化的问题，而支持防止移民人口动员的主张则以危险/威胁、人数和负担/沉重为论题。

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期刊介绍： Topoi''s main assumption is that philosophy is a lively, provocative, delightful activity, which constantly challenges our received views, relentlessly questions our inherited habits, painstakingly elaborates on how things could be different, in other stories, in counterfactual situations, in alternative possible worlds. Whatever its ideology, whether with the intent of uncovering a truer structure of reality or of soothing our anxiety, of exposing myths or of following them through, the outcome of philosophical activity is always the destabilizing, unsettling generation of doubts, of objections, of criticisms. It follows that this activity is intrinsically a ''dialogue'', that philosophy is first and foremost philosophical discussion, that it requires bringing out conflicting points of view, paying careful, sympathetic attention to their structure, and using this dialectic to articulate one''s approach, to make it richer, more thoughtful, more open to variation and play. And it follows that the spirit which one brings to this activity must be one of tolerance, of always suspecting one''s own blindness and consequently looking with unbiased eye in every corner, without fearing to pass a (fallible) judgment on what is there but also without failing to show interest and respect. Topoi''s structure is a direct expression of this view. To maximize discussion, we devote most or all of this issue to a single topic. And, since discussion is only interesting when it is conducted seriously and responsibly, we usually request the collaboration of a guest-editor, an expert who will identify contributors and interact with them in a constructive way. Because we do not feel tied to any definite philosophical theme (or set of them), we choose the topic with absolute freedom, looking for what is blossoming and thriving, occasionally betting on what might - partly through our attention - ''begin'' to blossom and thrive. And because we do not want our structur e to become our own straightjacket, we are open to contributions not fitting the ''topos'', and do not rule out in principle the possibility of topic-less issues.