Ethnopopulism frames elites as colluding with ethnic others to justify hardline measures.
Evidence
Populist governments claim to subvert elites and empower ordinary people. Ethnopopu list leaders make the additional claim that elites are working in cahoots with national others to destroy the nation. They conclude, therefore, that extraordinary measures are needed to prevent the ‘replacement’ of the core nation-people with national others. This means establishing control over state institutions and mass media, organising pro-govern ment counterprotests at opposition rallies, and advocating immigration control or even mass deportations to save the nation-people from sovereign penetration. — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 41
Categorization
- DEFINE: Concisely lays out the defining rhetorical structure that distinguishes ethnopopulism from plain populism.
- XREF: Provides the genus in which the Rwandan case (construction of ‘national others’ as internal enemies) should be classed; connects to The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s suspicion of elite-managed narratives. — connects to: Ethnopopulists frame internal minorities as foreign fifth columns to justify their exclusion. — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 30; Racism reproduction is concentrated in elites with access to public discourse.; Essentialist notions of group difference get appropriated by elites to sustain domination. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 291 (+10 more)
Related
- Ethnopopulists frame internal minorities as foreign fifth columns to justify their exclusion. (similarity 0.84)
- Elite discourse reproduces racism by shaping shared mental models of minorities (similarity 0.84)
- Symbolic elites drive the reproduction of racism (similarity 0.81)
- Contemporary racism is most damagingly reproduced through elite discourse (similarity 0.80)
- Essentialist notions of group difference get appropriated by elites to sustain domination. (similarity 0.80)
- Elite public discourse is central to reproducing racism across society (similarity 0.80)
- Ethnonationalism frames politics as ingroup versus outgroup needing exclusion. (similarity 0.79)
- Elites deliberately mobilize prejudice to enforce majority social order and transform people’s worth. (similarity 0.79)
- Elite ideological battles can pass almost unwitnessed by mass publics (similarity 0.79)
- Elite public discourses share structures because aims and social representations converge. (similarity 0.78)
- Prejudice is deliberately mobilized by elites for strategic gain, not merely implicit cognition (similarity 0.78)
- Authoritarian-era rhetoric norms constrain whether elites can later mobilize voters through ethnic hostility. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Prejudice is deliberately mobilized by elites for strategic gain, not merely implicit cognition
#exemplifies(0.85) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 414 - Racism reproduction is concentrated in elites with access to public discourse.
#corroborates(0.82) - Anti-Muslim prejudice was deliberately deployed by elites at specific political moments.
#exemplifies(0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 25 - Ethnonationalism frames politics as ingroup versus outgroup needing exclusion.
#complicates(0.80) — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 11 - Elite discourse reproduces racism by shaping shared mental models of minorities
#expands(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1121 - Elite public discourse is central to reproducing racism across society
#corroborates(0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 647 - Media access structurally favors elites against out-groups whose problems get defined for them
#corroborates(0.78) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 851 - Essentialist notions of group difference get appropriated by elites to sustain domination.
#corroborates(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 291 - Elites deliberately mobilize prejudice to enforce majority social order and transform people’s worth.
#corroborates(0.75) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 463 - Authoritarian-era rhetoric norms constrain whether elites can later mobilize voters through ethnic hostility.
#qualifies(0.75) — Johan Brosché and Hanne Fjelde and Kristine Höglund, Electoral violence and the legacy of…, 97 - Emphasizing a dominant ethnic identity exacerbates conflicts with minority groups.
#complicates(0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3476