Some Preliminary Thoughts Prompted by President Trump’s 6 January Speech: Words, Enemies, Affordances

Max Taylor

Terrorism and Political Violence, 2021, vol. 33, issue 5, 907-911

Abstract: The paper argues that in order to understand the events of 6 January we must look at events from a range of perspectives, two of which are identified—the narrow focus of a comparison of a linguistic analysis of the speech and its context, and the broader social and cultural context of a changing sense of American National Interest. It suggests that to understand the events of 6 January we need to conceptualise them as the product of a complex process where both aggregate and specific influences seem relevant, but whilst both offer necessary explanations neither in themselves provide a sufficient explanation of the event. The concept of affordance is suggested to perhaps provide the glue that may bind these and other influences together to facilitate the violence.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2021.1932337

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