Enemy Images

This book offers a detailed understanding of 'enemy images', which are used in political rhetoric to dehumanize adversaries for various purposes, such as to legitimate violent conflicts.

Autorentext

Kristian Steiner is Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies at Malmö University, Sweden. He has authored numerous articles in peace and conflict studies and political science. His research revolves around the usage of religious language to justify violence. He co-edited Expressions of Radicalization: Global Politics, Processes and Practices (with Andreas Önnerfors, 2018).

Andreas Jahrehorn Önnerfors is Full Professor in Intellectual History and works as a project manager at Fojo Media Institute at Linnaeus University, Sweden. He has specialized in contemporary radicalization, populist mobilization, and conspiratorial meaning-making. In 2021, he co-edited Europe: Continent of Conspiracies. Conspiracy Theories in and about Europe (with André Krouwel).

Klappentext

This book offers a detailed understanding of 'enemy images', which are used in political rhetoric to dehumanize adversaries for various purposes, such as to legitimate violent conflicts.

Inhalt

1. ****Why study enemy images?: An introduction

2. What is an enemy image?: Concepts and ideal types

3. How to make enemy images persuasive: Senders, messages and discursive consistency

4. Why are enemy images accepted?: Individual and structural factors

5. Who is targeted by enemy images?:Socio-psychological and cognitive drivers

6. How to counteract enemy images: Interventions and measures

7 . Expressions of enemy images: Media and manipulation

Index