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The empirical research documented in this volume examines the increasing threats to multiculturalism in Nordic countries from the rising tide of nationalism and far-right extremism. As recent political events in the US and elsewhere have shown, the rapidly changing landscape of digital media has made this a pressing international concern that warrants innovative and sustained scholarly attention. This book makes a significant contribution to this endeavour by detailing innovative critical discursive approaches that integrate linguistic, visual, and affective modes of analysis to understand how competing discourses of cultural diversity are produced and communicated in various settings. It is concluded that liberal egalitarianism and discourses of tolerance, while critical in defending social democratic values, can themselves be deployed in the service of justifying and legitimating social exclusion. Thus, there is more to be done in future discursive research analysing how effective pro multicultural rhetoric works in situ.
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Augoustinos, M. (2022). Concluding Remarks: The Future of Multiculturalism?. In: Pettersson, K., Nortio, E. (eds) The Far-Right Discourse of Multiculturalism in Intergroup Interactions. Palgrave Studies in Discursive Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89066-7_10
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