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dc.contributorUniversitat Ramon Llull. Facultat de Comunicació i Relacions Internacionals Blanquerna
dc.contributor.authorGarcia Santamaria, Sara
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-18T11:12:31Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-12T10:35:42Z
dc.date.available2022-02-18T11:12:31Z
dc.date.available2023-07-12T10:35:42Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/620
dc.description.abstractThis article examines populist leaders’ politicisation of food in their social media performances. More precisely, it analyses Matteo Salvini’s Instagram posts during the 2019 European elec-tions, and the way food is mobilized for populist and nationalist purposes. The main argument is that food serves as a cultural trope that confers identi-ty, reinforcing social divisions and the terms of national and class belonging. Drawing on Bourdieu’s (1984) social critique of taste, political leaders have traditionally placed themselves on the side of a distant gastronomic culture; that of a high-end elite. However, populist leaders perform a twofold role, attempting to present them-selves as part of the common people and distancing themselves from the traditional elite. This change in so-cial positioning is reflected in their social media accounts, often posting “authentic” glimpses of their cultural practices, such as cooking and eat-ing. Methodologically, this paper uses a mixed-methods concurrent design, combining digital ethnography and visual rhetoric analysis for examining both the discursive and the aesthet-ic clues that construct Salvini’s social positioning towards taste. Through food, being Italian becomes a matter of constructing Italian authenticity against the national intellectual and political elite, but also against the Eu-ropean value-building project.eng
dc.format.extent21 p.cat
dc.language.isoengcat
dc.publisherUniversitat Ramon Llull. Facultat de Comunicació i Relacions Internacionals Blanquernacat
dc.relation.ispartofTripodos, núm. 49, 2020cat
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
dc.rights© Facultat de Comunicació i Relacions Internacionals Blanquerna – URL
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.sourceRECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya)
dc.subject.otherEleccionscat
dc.subject.otherEuropacat
dc.subject.otherAlimentscat
dc.subject.otherPopulismecat
dc.subject.otherNacionalismecat
dc.subject.otherPolíticacat
dc.titleThe Italian ‘Taste’: The Far-Right and the Performance of Exclusionary Populism During the European Electionscat
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlecat
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioncat
dc.rights.accessLevelinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.embargo.termscapcat
dc.subject.udc32
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.51698/tripodos.2020.49p129-149cat


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