Breton Identity
Macron nationaliste banal ?, Yoran Publishing, 2022. (120 pages)
Everything would suggest that Emmanuel Macron has completely broken with nationalism: the modernity he claims to represent, the liberalism he espouses, his defence of open globalisation, his choice of a “Girondin pact” and his strongly pro-European rhetoric. Has he not repeatedly described nationalism as a ‘leprosy’? And yet…
A close analysis of the televised speeches he delivered in 2020 reveals, on the contrary, that at the height of the Covid pandemic – a time that called for a shift in focus and generous international solidarity – he reverted to old nationalist reflexes. The content of his speeches, the narrative strategies and linguistic forms he employed: all of this reveals a nationalism which, whilst not overtly aggressive, is by no means innocuous.
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