We take you on a trip to discover how fascists in our world and Westeros use what they like in the Middle Ages, pick and choose and lump it all together and bam! have lovely (or not) symbols to show and things to say to justify their hatred and actions. We mostly only look at our world, and how Vikings and the Crusades are used, and look at what GRRM uses and doesn't use.
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Resources:
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Expo (in general) but specifically:
https://expo.se/lar-dig-mer/symbollexikon/
https://expo.se/nyhet/soldiers-odin-blev-balder-cruisers-demonstrerar-med-nazister/
https://expo.se/nyhet/soldiers-odin-bakom-fasaden-rasism-och-valdsromantik/
https://expo.se/lar-dig-mer/wiki/nordiska-motstandsrorelsen-nmr/
“Embodying ‘the Nordic race’: imaginaries of Viking heritage in the online communications of the Nordic Resistance Movement” - Christoffer Kølveraa
“Freyja: Rape, Immigration, and the Medieval in Alt-Right Discourse” - Ali Frauman
“Anti-refugee Mobilization in Social Media: The Case of Soldiers of Odin” - Mattias Ekman
“Magic, Genderfluidity, and queer Vikings ca. 750-1050” by Jacob Bell
Virginie:
https://www.lavie.fr/idees/histoire/leglise-doit-elle-avoir-honte-des-croisades-15718.php
https://orientxxi.info/magazine/islamophobie-un-mot-un-mal-plus-que-centenaires,1155
https://orientxxi.info/magazine/saint-louis-un-roi-prisonnier-des-cliches,0601
https://orientxxi.info/magazine/une-compassion-tres-politique-pour-les-chretiens-d-orient,1300
https://journals.openedition.org/questionsdecommunication/33623
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