Beschreibung
This book illustrates the conservative right’s strategies – termed structural mechanisms – through four cases: PC discourse; a cultural politic of economic resentment; and the two parallel struggles over the authority to define reality pivoting around academic freedom and global warming.
Autorenportrait
Marlia Banning (PhD, the University of Utah) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has published articles in
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Inhalt
Contents: When All That Is Public Melts into Air – Consolidating Power through the Discourse of Political Correctness – The Cultural Politic of Resentment – Knowledge Production and Reduction: The Battle of Ideas and Academic Freedom – While the World Warms.
