Kevan A Feshami: Imagining Community in White Nationalism's Mediated Network, Gebunden

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In Imagining Community in White Nationalism's Mediated Network, author Kevan A. Feshami illustrates how white nationalism emerged and maintained itself as a global movement in the years after the Second World War, contending that its international scope was made possible by a network of individuals and groups who largely relied on media to communicate with each other.

By establishing and maintaining mediated networks, Feshami posits, members of the movement were able to more persuasively communicate not only their ideas and worldview, but also-perhaps more compellingly-the personal emotions, narratives, and experiences which have encouraged them to construct and understand their identities as part of a national community fighting for its survival. To that end, Feshami analyzes a variety of archival white nationalist media artifacts, utilizing them as case studies to demonstrate how white nationalists have historically utilized media to construct and foster an identity grounded in flawed ideologies of racial purity, victimhood, and perceived threats from external forces.

As white nationalists continue their attempt to shift cultural attitudes and draw a larger audience toward their vision of a globally united white nation, Feshami's work positions these networks as mediated spaces that form a social architecture in which participants are encouraged to form new and warped understandings of the self, one's relationship to others, and one's place in the larger world.