Contestation of White Masculine Heterosexual American Identity during the Era of Donald Trump and Beyond
Abstract
Presented article investigates white, masculine US identity during the era of Donald Trump. It does so through comparison with the two Trump's predecessors in the presidential office: G.W.
Bush and B. Obama.
Theoretically this paper rests on the epistemological and ontological assumptions of poststructuralist and postcolonial IR feminism and critical positions towards the mainstream IR. The main argument of this paper is that Trump's potential re-construction of the US identity is not as unprecedented and revolutionary as it so often argued.
Therefore, the comparison with other two presidents might reveal contradictions and similarities in construction of such identities and values and hence pinpoint a linear normalization. To demonstrate this theoretical assumption, the case of relationship between US and Afghanistan is investigated through critical discourse analysis (CDA).