Never let a good crisis go to waste: Pauline Hanson’s exploitation of COVID-19 on Facebook

This brief contribution explores how the 2020 COVID-19 crisis has been exploited by Australian populist radical right politician, Pauline Hanson. In particular, I discuss how Hanson, through her political communication on Facebook, has used the COVID-19 crisis to prosecute her longstanding nativist...

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Autor principal: Sengul, Kurt
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Extraordinary Issue: Australia’s First Wave
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8263379/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878X20953521
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description This brief contribution explores how the 2020 COVID-19 crisis has been exploited by Australian populist radical right politician, Pauline Hanson. In particular, I discuss how Hanson, through her political communication on Facebook, has used the COVID-19 crisis to prosecute her longstanding nativist policies on issues like immigration. I further discuss how Hanson’s anti-Asian and Sinophobic rhetoric has occurred alongside an increase in anti-Asian racism in Australia throughout the COVID-19 crisis. I conclude by discussing the implications of this as well as foreshadowing future empirical work on this topic.
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spelling pubmed-82633792021-07-08 Never let a good crisis go to waste: Pauline Hanson’s exploitation of COVID-19 on Facebook Sengul, Kurt Media International Australia Extraordinary Issue: Australia’s First Wave This brief contribution explores how the 2020 COVID-19 crisis has been exploited by Australian populist radical right politician, Pauline Hanson. In particular, I discuss how Hanson, through her political communication on Facebook, has used the COVID-19 crisis to prosecute her longstanding nativist policies on issues like immigration. I further discuss how Hanson’s anti-Asian and Sinophobic rhetoric has occurred alongside an increase in anti-Asian racism in Australia throughout the COVID-19 crisis. I conclude by discussing the implications of this as well as foreshadowing future empirical work on this topic. SAGE Publications 2021-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8263379/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878X20953521 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title_short Never let a good crisis go to waste: Pauline Hanson’s exploitation of COVID-19 on Facebook
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