From Twitter to Capitol Hill

Panayota Gounari, Ph.D. (2004), Pennslylvania State University, is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has published extensively on authoritarian and neoliberal discourses and critical pedagogy. Her most recent book is Liberatory and Critical Education in Greece: Historical Trajectories and Perspectives (co-authored with G. Grollios; Gutenberg, 2016).

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Figures



Introduction

 1 Far-Right Populist Authoritarianism



1 Far-Right Authoritarian Populism, Fascism, New Fascism, Trumpism

 1 Introduction

 2 A New Fascism?

 3 Fascism, Neofascism, Far Right and Trumpism

 4 Conclusion



2 One-Dimensional Discourse, Authoritarianism and Social Media: A Theoretical Framework

 1 Introduction

 2 What Is One-Dimensional Discourse?

 3 Features of One-Dimensional Discourse

 4 (Social) Media

 5 From Mediatization to (Social) Mediatization

 6 Conclusion



3 From Twitter to Capitol Hill: One-Dimensional Discursive Extremism and the Language of Digital Aggressiveness

 1 Introduction

 2 Critical Discourse Analysis/Studies (CDA/S) and the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA)

 3 From Twitter to Capitol Hill

 4 Trump’s Speech at the Ellipse-Save America Rally

 5 One-Dimensional Discourse and The Language of Total Administration

 6 Discursive Themes/Argumentative Constructions

 7 Conclusion



4 Against Critical Pedagogy: For a Critical Pedagogy with a Radical Political Project

 1 Introduction

 2 Historical Roots and Main Concepts of Critical Pedagogy: Making the Pedagogical Political

 3 Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Today?

 4 Moving Forward



5 Emergency Time as a Pedagogical Project: Historical Thinking and Critical Consciousness

 1 ‘Actions Committed in the Past’

 2 Emergency Time: Unsettled Accounts with History

 3 History: A Critical Public Pedagogy Project of Recontextualization

 4 Making the Pedagogical Historical and the Historical Pedagogical



Appendix A: Trump’s Last Two Tweets on January 8th, 2021

Appendix B: Twitter Blog Post on the Permanent Suspension of Donald Trump’s Account, January 8th, 2021

Appendix C: Donald Trump Talking to Reporters after the Charlottesville Rally

Index