Tropes of fear and the crisis of the west: Trumpism as a discourse of post-territorial coloniality.
We examine ‘Trumpism’ as a contemporary form of colonial domination, showing how this discourse represents both a crisis of coloniality and a stimulus for a movement of ‘decoloniality’. A critical discourse analysis is applied to seven speeches delivered by Donald Trump between his announcement of h...
| Published in: | Postcolonial Studies Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 199 - 217 |
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