CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Stam, Jasmijn |
|---|---|
| Title | Building a Nation:How Does Art Censorship Participate in the Reimagining of the Nation in the United States during the Trumpian Era? |
| Summary | This research seeks to contribute to the scholarly debate surrounding censorship, specifically attending to the question of how art censorship participates in producing the boundaries of the nation. As such, the author will be opening up the concept of censorship and employing an integrative approach to censorship that encompasses both its regulatory and constitutive dimensions. Taking the concept of censorship as its theoretical starting point, the research will use critical discourse analysis to illuminate how censorship participates in a struggle over the content of hegemony. Of particular interest is the way in which cultural meaning emerges through visual and verbal text in the context of the Make America Great Again movement and the broader conservative project. As such, this research not only interrogates how orders of inequalities are maintained and/or challenged through censorship, but also which orders of inequality are maintained and/or. Altogether, this thesis adds to the literature by suggesting that practices of art censorship, particularly in relation to the contemporary political developments in the United States, should be understood as part as systemic rather than accidental, isolated and/or extraordinary events. Keywords: Art Censorship, Cultural Hegemony, Make America Great Again, Reimagining the Nation, Orders of Inequality |
| Supervisor | Merlingen, Michael |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/stam_jasmijn.pdf |
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