This article explores how Europe’s border crises in the post refugee ‘crisis’ years were discussed micro-blog Twitter, through an in-depth analysis of boundary making. Our focus is on tweets top influencers hashtag #IStandWithGreece who strategically promoted ideologies ranging from white supremacism to Greek nationalism, glued together by antimigrant stance during a at periphery. network intol...

Thus, the present article aims at answering question whether there exists an anti-soft power, both as ideology and practice, which could be efficient enough for state to protect itself from impact of external informational cultural influence. The theory soft power is based on idea that its object accepts normative subordination. Consequently, such should not pursue major political ambitions, re...

The rise of anti-immigrant racism over the past two decades has taken place through multiple mechanisms and processes, including resurgence welfare racism, which been re-functionalized towards refugees asylum seekers. As a key weapon today’s sovereignism white supremacism, “return” is intrinsic to neo-liberal an integral part global process erosion social rights, weakening citizenship, dismantl...

The debate between ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ research approaches continues in the IS field, but with little prospect of resolution. The debate is typically characterised by tendentious arguments as advocates from each approach offer a somewhat one-sided condemnation of the counterpart from the inimical research tradition. This paper begins by relating two fictitious tales which serve to highlight the f...

Throughout the Trump administration, media coverage of extremist factions American right grew considerably, as did actual membership and numbers those factions. Included among these factions, operating on a spectrum that ranges from center-to-fringe right, are white supremacist, Christian nationalist, militia/patriot/sovereign citizen (broadly termed constitutionalist) movements. While is heter...

This study set out to check the addressing behavior within men’s and women’s talk in the written conversations in English language textbook series titled ‘New Interchange book’ by Richards, Hull and Proctor, (1998) from Cambridge University Press. In line with this aim, the present researchers initially prepared descriptive tables for both formal and informal contexts in three theme categories ...

There has been mounting concern among social scientists that conclusions from studies conducted on highly educated populations from affluent European cultures may have limited applicability to human behavior in general (Henrich et al., 2010). Similar reservations have also been voiced in the fields of language (Evans and Levinson, 2009) and literacy (Share, 2008a; Frost, 2012). Reading research...

Postliberal Politics, by Pabst, Adrian. Polity. 160 pp. £14.99 Words matter, especially new ones. They slip into the mainstream, often unnoticed with their origins unexplained. Such is case postliberalism. It has seeped political discussion over last few years, initially pushed David Goodhart. Now Adrian Pabst written a book which defines concept and uses it to identify discontents of age offer...