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The rhetorical use of the threat of the far-right in the UK Brexit debate. [PDF]

Br J Soc Psychol, 2021
While attention has been given to understanding support for the far‐right, there is a lack of focus on the way in which a threat of the far‐right can be used for political ends. This paper addresses this using the UK Brexit debate as an illustration. The question therefore is: What is talk about the far‐right used to do in discussions about Brexit?
Goodman S.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Exposure to hate in online and traditional media: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of this exposure on individuals and communities. [PDF]

Campbell Syst Rev
Abstract The Problem People use social media platforms to chat, search, and share information, express their opinions, and connect with others. But these platforms also facilitate the posting of divisive, harmful, and hateful messages, targeting groups and individuals, based on their race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or political views.
Madriaza P, Hassan G, Brouillette-Alarie S, Mounchingam AN, Durocher-Corfa L, Borokhovski E, Pickup D, Paillé S.   +7 more
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A higher bar: Institutional impediments to hate crime prosecution

Law &Society Review, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 489-507, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Why are hate crime cases so rarely prosecuted? Most states and the federal government have hate crime laws on their books, yet available data indicate few prosecutions in most jurisdictions. Drawing on case files and interviews with police and prosecutors in one jurisdiction, three institutional impediments to hate crime prosecution are ...
Ryan D. King, Besiki L. Kutateladze
wiley   +1 more source

Commemorations and outreach: Shi‘i leaders of metro Detroit take on the COVID‐19 pandemic

Journal for the Anthropology of North America, Volume 26, Issue 1-2, Page 21-40, Fall 2023., 2023
Abstract On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus (COVID‐19) outbreak a global pandemic, spurring dramatic changes in public health policies, travel between countries, and (trans)national economies, as well as in religious and political institutions.
Rose Wellman, Islam Jaffal
wiley   +1 more source

Divergent Pathways: How Pre‐Orientation Programs Can Shape the Transition to College for First‐Generation, Low‐Income Students1

Sociological Forum, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 660-683, September 2023., 2023
First‐generation, low‐income (FGLI) students attend college at historically high rates in the United States. However, FGLI students continue to struggle in transitioning to college, particularly in elite universities. In this article, we engage with interview and supplemental survey data from 40 FGLI students at an elite university to demonstrate how ...
Lauren M. Beard, Kristen Schilt, Patrick Jagoda   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multiple interfaces

American Ethnologist, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 247-259, May 2023., 2023
Abstract In India and its diaspora in the UK, online activities of various sorts—tweeting, blogging, messaging, trolling, and tagging—have become central to tensions surrounding religion's presence in public life and the stakes of belonging to the nation.
Sahana Udupa, Max Kramer
wiley   +1 more source

PROTOCOL: Hate online and in traditional media: A systematic review of the evidence for associations or impacts on individuals, audiences, and communities

Campbell Systematic Reviews, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2022., 2022
Abstract This is the protocol for a Campbell systematic review: The objectives are as follows: (1) to critically and systematically synthesize the empirical evidence on the effects or impacts of exposure to or consumption, active search, or promotion of hate content online or in traditional media; (2) to describe how the characteristics of hate (e.g ...
Ghayda Hassan, Jihan Rabah, Pablo Madriaza, Sebastien Brouillette‐Alarie, Eugene Borokhovski, David Pickup, Wynnpaul Varela, Melina Girard, Loïc Durocher‐Corfa, Emmanuel Danis   +9 more
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Hate Crimes and Gender Imbalances: Fears over Mate Competition and Violence against Refugees

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 501-515, April 2022., 2022
Abstract As the number of refugees rises across the world, anti‐refugee violence has become a pressing concern. What explains the incidence and support of such hate crime? We argue that fears among native men that refugees pose a threat in the competition for female partners are a critical but understudied factor driving hate crime.
Rafaela Dancygier, Naoki Egami, Amaney Jamal, Ramona Rischke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From cyberfascism to terrorism: On 4chan/pol/ culture and the transnational production of memetic violence

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 286-301, January 2022., 2022
Abstract This article examines the fascists imaginaries that are produced and circulated at 4chan /pol/. Based on analysis of memes and posts collected during a 6‐month period in 2019, it explores the diagnoses given by anonymous users to the imagining of the ultra‐nation and dehumanized others, and the prescriptions for the remedies needed to bring ...
Cathrine Thorleifsson
wiley   +1 more source

In, out, or somewhere else entirely: Going beyond binary constructions of the closet in the lives of LGBTQ people from a Muslim background living in Brussels

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 435-448, June 2021., 2021
This paper analyses and critically discusses experiences and narratives of sexuality disclosure and concealment of LGBTQ people from a Muslim background living in Brussels. It does so by presenting data collected over a year of ethnographic research in the city.
Alessandro Boussalem
wiley   +1 more source