ECHO
MEDIA, CULTURE AND POLITICS
ECHO is devoted to the study of meaning across media, culture and politics, and their intersections. The group is home to an international group of scholars working on how meaning circulates, fluctuates, and resonates in society. Echo's aim is to produce a critical and nuanced understanding of how the reproduction and contestation of meaning contributes to social, cultural and political change and continuity.
Latest Publications
Book chapter: The populist hype
Jana Goyvaerts, Katy Brown, Aurelien Mondon, Jason Glynos, and Benjamin De Cleen Going beyond an exclusive focus on populist politics, attention to the signifier ‘populism’ helps elucidate the character and effects of discourses about populism. The aim of this chapter is three-fold.Transphobic Truth Markets: Comparing Trans-hostile Discourses in British Trans-exclusionary Radical Feminist and US Right-wing Movements
Briar Dickey British “Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist” (TERF) discourse has often been contextualised in fringe radical feminist thought, but its similarities to and alliances with right-wing trans-exclusionary movements in the US are notable (McClean, 2020).
News & Events
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Reel Borders launches webdoc and petition
The ABCeuta web documentary is created as part of the ERC project 'Reel Borders' and showcases 26 short essay films. Along with the webdoc, the team launched a petition in support of domestic workers in Ceuta who are forced to live in precarious conditions. - Practical info-
Call for abstracts – Special issue on ‘The Far Right and Audiovisual Fiction’
This research seminar discusses discourse as a social practice and focuses on discourse analysis, authoritarian populism, and the news media.