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).

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction1 Far-Right Populist Authoritarianism1 Far-Right Authoritarian Populism, Fascism, New Fascism, Trumpism1 Introduction2 A New Fascism?3 Fascism, Neofascism, Far Right and Trumpism4 Conclusion2 One-Dimensional Discourse, Authoritarianism and Social Media: A Theoretical Framework1 Introduction2 What Is One-Dimensional Discourse?3 Features of One-Dimensional Discourse4 (Social) Media5 From Mediatization to (Social) Mediatization6 Conclusion3 From Twitter to Capitol Hill: One-Dimensional Discursive Extremism and the Language of Digital Aggressiveness1 Introduction2 Critical Discourse Analysis/Studies (CDA/S) and the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA)3 From Twitter to Capitol Hill4 Trump’s Speech at the Ellipse-Save America Rally5 One-Dimensional Discourse and The Language of Total Administration6 Discursive Themes/Argumentative Constructions7 Conclusion4 Against Critical Pedagogy: For a Critical Pedagogy with a Radical Political Project1 Introduction2 Historical Roots and Main Concepts of Critical Pedagogy: Making the Pedagogical Political3 Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Today?4 Moving Forward5 Emergency Time as a Pedagogical Project: Historical Thinking and Critical Consciousness1 ‘Actions Committed in the Past’2 Emergency Time: Unsettled Accounts with History3 History: A Critical Public Pedagogy Project of Recontextualization4 Making the Pedagogical Historical and the Historical PedagogicalAppendix A: Trump’s Last Two Tweets on January 8th, 2021Appendix B: Twitter Blog Post on the Permanent Suspension of Donald Trump’s Account, January 8th, 2021Appendix C: Donald Trump Talking to Reporters after the Charlottesville RallyIndex