The Banal National Party: the routine nature of legitimacy
The Banal National Party: the routine nature of legitimacy
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平庸的国家党：合法性的常规性质
DOI：
10.1080/00313220902793898
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Rhodes J
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作者：
Rhodes J
自21世纪初以来，英国极右翼在英国国家党（BNP）的支持下取得了显著的选举胜利。在尼克·格里芬的领导下，该党非常重视现代化。法国民族主义党的选举收益集中在伯恩利、巴金和达格纳姆、埃平森林和特伦特河畔斯托克等特定地区，这意味着学术界对该党活动的调查更加侧重于地方。除了研究BNP内部的意识形态转变外，一批新兴的文献试图关注该党在特定地区获得更高合法性的手段。这种对政党机器的关注使人们对孟加拉国民族主义党如何寻求在特定社区中扎根产生了一些有趣的见解。传统形式的社区政治得到了极大的重视。通过利用日常问题和选择当地居民作为候选人，BNP似乎能够转移种族主义和极端主义的指控。罗兹在伯恩利对英国国家党选民和前候选人进行了定性采访，他认为，正是英国国家党的平庸、它的话语和它在地方一级的候选人，使英国国家党获得了一定程度的“尊重”。该党及其支持者似乎能够利用传统的种族主义和民族主义概念，将其视为不同寻常或“其他”的东西。人们似乎认识到，正是日常表达和表现白色种族主义似乎能够逃脱极端主义的标签，成为更“合法”的表达形式。同样，在BNP选民，以及党本身的方式，已经能够找到强大的故事的身份和权利在常规的叙事将探讨在当代时期的“本地”和“全球”的重新配置。
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the far right in Britain, under the auspices of the British National Party (BNP), has made noteworthy electoral gains. Under the leadership of Nick Griffin, the party has placed great emphasis on modernization. The concentration of BNP electoral gains within specific areas such as Burnley, Barking and Dagenham, Epping Forest, and Stoke-on-Trent has meant that academic enquiries into the party's activities have a more localized emphasis. As well as examining the ideological shifts within the BNP, an emergent body of literature has sought to focus on the means by which the party has been able to assume greater levels of legitimacy within particular locales. This focus on the party apparatus has yielded some interesting insights into the way in which the BNP has sought to embed itself within particular communities. Great stock has been placed on traditional forms of community-based politics. By tapping into everyday concerns and by selecting local residents as candidates, it appears that the BNP has been able to deflect charges of racism and extremism. Drawing on qualitative interviews with BNP voters and ex-candidates in Burnley, Rhodes suggests that it is the banality of the party, its discourses and its candidates at a local level that has enabled the BNP to acquire a degree of ‘respectability’. The party and its supporters have seemingly been able to exploit traditional conceptions of racism and nationalism as something out of the ordinary or ‘other’. There appears to have been a recognition that it is everyday articulations and representations of white racism that seem able to escape the label of extremism, appearing as more ‘legitimate’ forms of expression. Similarly, the way in which BNP voters, as well as the party itself, have been able to locate powerful tales of identity and entitlement within routine narratives will be explored in relation to the reconfiguration of the ‘local’ and the ‘global’ in the contemporary period.