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“This does not mean that the majority of Belgians have become racist”: Valorisation of Belgium and Belgian journalists as antiracist amid a denunciation of racism in the press discourses

par Derinöz, Sabri ;Louazon, Elena ;Menalque, Lise
Référence DNC5ALED: Discourses and their impacts on a world of multiple crises (25-28 juillet 2023: Universidad de Valencia)
Publication Non publié, 2023-07-27

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In 2018, a Black weathercaster’s video denouncing racism led to a unique moment in the French-speaking Belgian media, with a large number of articles carrying “antiracist” discourses. Based on a press corpus focusing on the event (112 articles), we decided to use critical discourse analysis in order to observe the social representations that are conveyed by the journalistic discourse. We developed a grid to investigate the construction of in-groups at several levels.In a constructivist approach inspired by Nancy Fraser’s (1992) view of the public sphere, media discourses can be seen as a reconfiguration of representations and social beliefs reflecting an unequal social structure, consequence of a disparity of access and participation (Cervulle 2013). Journalists are part of a symbolic elites that have influential public discourses, thus contribute to the reproduction of dominant knowledge and ideologies in society, including racism (Van Dijk 1993; 2012). Antiracists discourses are part of the social representation of the group in most of Western societies, in which tolerance towards the “other” is promoted and blatant forms of racist behavior banned (Lentin, 2016 ; Archakis 2021).While racism is denounced in the news discourses, we observe in antiracist’s discourses an in-group’s valorization of journalists and media workers, an in-group’s valorization of the idea of a non-racist Belgian french-speaking part, and finally an in-group's promotion of the idea of a non-racist Belgium.