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Abstract Death (or Death Personified) Abstract Death (or Death Personified)
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Specific Death (or Death of an Individual) Specific Death (or Death of an Individual)
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Collective Death, or the Death of a Way of Life or Imagined Civilization Collective Death, or the Death of a Way of Life or Imagined Civilization
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Why Death Appeals to Far Right Youth Why Death Appeals to Far Right Youth
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Death and Its Contexts: Humor and the Limits of Acceptability Death and Its Contexts: Humor and the Limits of Acceptability
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Conclusion Conclusion
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4 Dying for a Cause, Causing Death: The Threat of Violence
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Published:November 2019
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Abstract
This chapter examines historical and contemporary far right wing symbols that directly depict, reference, or evoke death or dying through reference to historical myths and legends as well as contemporary acts of violence. It traces three ways in which the far right deploys symbols of death: abstract death, specific deaths and death threats, and reference to the death of a civilization or entire way of life. The chapter argues that the iconography of death helps evoke fear and produce anxiety among viewers, in part by breaching societal taboos that deem death unspeakable and by evoking death and violence in the name of the nation. By linking depictions of weapons that can cause death; illustrations or references to blood, war, physical fighting or confrontation; or violence to a particular vision of the nation, the chapter argues that such iconography makes coded or oblique references to contemporary immigration and diversity in ways that indirectly or directly threaten members of minority and nonwhite groups. Symbols of death are thus a performative strategy to demonstrate fearlessness and suggest violence as a means to achieve nationalist or extremist goals.
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