Much has been made of US President Donald Trump’s authoritarian tendencies. Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric and draconian policies lay bare the violence embedded in contemporary political discourse and power relations. While Trump’s verbal assaults on news workers are well documented and widely discussed, his efforts – and those of his immediate predecessor Barack Obama – to silence government whistleblowers receive far less scrutiny. Drawing on discourse theory and analysis, this paper explores the experience of three prominent leakers and the epistemic violence underpinning America’s war on whistleblowers.
Beitrag
Violence, Intimidation and Incarceration: America’s War on Whistleblowers
Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung (ISSN 2195-867X), Ausgabe 3, Jahr 2019, Seite 265 - 284
Violence, Intimidation and Incarceration: America’s War on Whistleblowers
Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung (ISSN 2195-867X), Ausgabe 3, Jahr 2019, Seite 265 - 284
10.3262/ZFD1903265
Kevin Howley, Violence, Intimidation and Incarceration: America’s War on Whistleblowers (2022), Beltz Juventa, 69469 Weinheim, ISSN: 2195-867X, 2019 #3, S.265
2195-867X
Beltz Juventa
Diskursanalyse
Discourse Analysis
securitization
Espionage Act
Whistleblower*innen
whistleblowers