Donatella Bonansinga
Biographic Data
| ID | 143571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donatella Bonansinga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donatella |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonansinga |
| SIGNATURE | BONANSINGA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1968-0811 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Role of Insecurity in Left Populist Ideology: A Review of Podemos
The relationship between populism and insecurity remains relatively underexplored, with the empirical focus skewed towards the radical right. To understand the role of insecurity in left populism, this review focuses on the discourse of Podemos and critically examines the existing literature, delivering a detailed analysis of how the party articulated the people-vs-elite struggle as it emerged as a novel political force. It shows that Podemos’ co…
"Introduction to the Triple Special Issue "The Emotional Side of Populist Support: Key Affective Mechanisms at Test
Although research on populism has gained traction as an established field of inquiry, its affective underpinnings remain a puzzle. A relatively underexplored area of study, now garnering attention, is the intricate relationship between populism and emotions. This Triple Special Issue focuses on the demand side of populist politics, delving into populist attitudes and the role emotions play in their activation. Articles in this collection address …
Stop the boats: Populist contagion and migration policymaking in the UK
This paper argues that the Rwanda Policy was the continuation of a populist contagion process that is leading to a longer-lasting radicalization of the UK Conservatives. It examines leading Conservative politicians (Johnson, Sunak, Braverman, Patel, Cleverly), showing how they incorporated all elements of populist radical right narratives (i.e. people-centrism, anti-elitism, popular sovereignty, authoritarianism and nativism) in their justificati…
Legitimacy First: Marine Le Pen’s Visual De‐Demonisation Strategies on Instagram
Recent research on populist visual communication has found a predominance of positivity in the way the populist radical right (PRR) communicates on Instagram. This counters the understanding of PRR actors as “dark” communicators, relying on appeals to negative emotions and attacks against perceived enemies and wider outgroups. This article tests the novel conceptual framework of “visual de-demonisation” that has been proposed to capture the inter…
Visual de-demonisation: A new era of radical right mainstreaming
This conceptual article calls for the integration of new approaches to the study of visual populist communication, arguing that it will play a critical part in a new era of radical right mainstreaming. Extant scholarship on the mainstreaming of the radical right has focused on party politics and rhetoric, neglecting the visual self-presentation and emotional strategies of radical right leaders on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. The article p…
Beyond anger: The populist radical right on TikTok
The video streaming app TikTok is increasingly deployed by political actors to reach younger voters, and this includes populist radical right (PRR) parties. In this study, our expectation is that longstanding PRR parties will be more likely than new PRR challengers to try to de-demonise their image as they land on the platform, in order to counteract years of negative coverage. To test this argument, we use a novel theoretical framework that capt…
A threat to us’: The interplay of insecurity and enmity narratives in left-wing populism
Left-wing populists are understudied in populism research and little is known on how enmity and insecurity narratives interplay in their rhetoric. Using a narrative framework to capture insecurity in the ‘enemification’ of elites, this article examines left-populist Jean-Luc Mélenchon and La France Insoumise. The analysis reveals a multifaceted construction of national, supranational and international elites as sources of insecurity, based on (a)…
When emotions run high: Affective responses to crises in Europe
The right-wing alliance at the time of the Covid-19 pandemic: All change
The growth of populist radical right parties at the expense of Berlusconi’s Forza Italia (FI) has recently reconfigured the right in Italy. Changes in power relations created for the Lega (League), Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy, FdI) and FI, different competitive pressures, resulting in distinctive–and often conflicting–responses to the pandemic. Based on the analysis of these parties’ Twitter accounts and on survey data, this article exam…
Insecurity narratives and implicit emotional appeals in French competing populisms
As the empirical focus of existing research is on the populist right and on negative emotionality, this paper questions to what extent the populism-(in)security nexus is indeed distinctive to the right and predominantly underpinned by fear-based appeals. By adopting a novel typology of insecurity-framing and a qualitative strategy that infers emotions from core relational themes, the paper explores the implicit emotional content of populist insec…
When emotions run high: Affective responses to crises in Europe
Beyond anger: The populist radical right on TikTok
The video streaming app TikTok is increasingly deployed by political actors to reach younger voters, and this includes populist radical right (PRR) parties. In this study, our expectation is that longstanding PRR parties will be more likely than new PRR challengers to try to de-demonise their image as they land on the platform, in order to counteract years of negative coverage. To test this argument, we use a novel theoretical framework that capt…
The right-wing alliance at the time of the Covid-19 pandemic: All change
The growth of populist radical right parties at the expense of Berlusconi’s Forza Italia (FI) has recently reconfigured the right in Italy. Changes in power relations created for the Lega (League), Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy, FdI) and FI, different competitive pressures, resulting in distinctive–and often conflicting–responses to the pandemic. Based on the analysis of these parties’ Twitter accounts and on survey data, this article exam…
Insecurity narratives and implicit emotional appeals in French competing populisms
As the empirical focus of existing research is on the populist right and on negative emotionality, this paper questions to what extent the populism-(in)security nexus is indeed distinctive to the right and predominantly underpinned by fear-based appeals. By adopting a novel typology of insecurity-framing and a qualitative strategy that infers emotions from core relational themes, the paper explores the implicit emotional content of populist insec…
A threat to us’: The interplay of insecurity and enmity narratives in left-wing populism
Left-wing populists are understudied in populism research and little is known on how enmity and insecurity narratives interplay in their rhetoric. Using a narrative framework to capture insecurity in the ‘enemification’ of elites, this article examines left-populist Jean-Luc Mélenchon and La France Insoumise. The analysis reveals a multifaceted construction of national, supranational and international elites as sources of insecurity, based on (a)…
"Introduction to the Triple Special Issue "The Emotional Side of Populist Support: Key Affective Mechanisms at Test
Although research on populism has gained traction as an established field of inquiry, its affective underpinnings remain a puzzle. A relatively underexplored area of study, now garnering attention, is the intricate relationship between populism and emotions. This Triple Special Issue focuses on the demand side of populist politics, delving into populist attitudes and the role emotions play in their activation. Articles in this collection address …
Stop the boats: Populist contagion and migration policymaking in the UK
This paper argues that the Rwanda Policy was the continuation of a populist contagion process that is leading to a longer-lasting radicalization of the UK Conservatives. It examines leading Conservative politicians (Johnson, Sunak, Braverman, Patel, Cleverly), showing how they incorporated all elements of populist radical right narratives (i.e. people-centrism, anti-elitism, popular sovereignty, authoritarianism and nativism) in their justificati…
Visual de-demonisation: A new era of radical right mainstreaming
This conceptual article calls for the integration of new approaches to the study of visual populist communication, arguing that it will play a critical part in a new era of radical right mainstreaming. Extant scholarship on the mainstreaming of the radical right has focused on party politics and rhetoric, neglecting the visual self-presentation and emotional strategies of radical right leaders on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. The article p…
The right-wing alliance at the time of the Covid-19 pandemic: All change
The growth of populist radical right parties at the expense of Berlusconi’s Forza Italia (FI) has recently reconfigured the right in Italy. Changes in power relations created for the Lega (League), Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy, FdI) and FI, different competitive pressures, resulting in distinctive–and often conflicting–responses to the pandemic. Based on the analysis of these parties’ Twitter accounts and on survey data, this article exam…
Insecurity narratives and implicit emotional appeals in French competing populisms
As the empirical focus of existing research is on the populist right and on negative emotionality, this paper questions to what extent the populism-(in)security nexus is indeed distinctive to the right and predominantly underpinned by fear-based appeals. By adopting a novel typology of insecurity-framing and a qualitative strategy that infers emotions from core relational themes, the paper explores the implicit emotional content of populist insec…
A threat to us’: The interplay of insecurity and enmity narratives in left-wing populism
Left-wing populists are understudied in populism research and little is known on how enmity and insecurity narratives interplay in their rhetoric. Using a narrative framework to capture insecurity in the ‘enemification’ of elites, this article examines left-populist Jean-Luc Mélenchon and La France Insoumise. The analysis reveals a multifaceted construction of national, supranational and international elites as sources of insecurity, based on (a)…
When emotions run high: Affective responses to crises in Europe
Beyond anger: The populist radical right on TikTok
The video streaming app TikTok is increasingly deployed by political actors to reach younger voters, and this includes populist radical right (PRR) parties. In this study, our expectation is that longstanding PRR parties will be more likely than new PRR challengers to try to de-demonise their image as they land on the platform, in order to counteract years of negative coverage. To test this argument, we use a novel theoretical framework that capt…
Legitimacy First: Marine Le Pen’s Visual De‐Demonisation Strategies on Instagram
Recent research on populist visual communication has found a predominance of positivity in the way the populist radical right (PRR) communicates on Instagram. This counters the understanding of PRR actors as “dark” communicators, relying on appeals to negative emotions and attacks against perceived enemies and wider outgroups. This article tests the novel conceptual framework of “visual de-demonisation” that has been proposed to capture the inter…
Visual de-demonisation: A new era of radical right mainstreaming
This conceptual article calls for the integration of new approaches to the study of visual populist communication, arguing that it will play a critical part in a new era of radical right mainstreaming. Extant scholarship on the mainstreaming of the radical right has focused on party politics and rhetoric, neglecting the visual self-presentation and emotional strategies of radical right leaders on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. The article p…
The Role of Insecurity in Left Populist Ideology: A Review of Podemos
The relationship between populism and insecurity remains relatively underexplored, with the empirical focus skewed towards the radical right. To understand the role of insecurity in left populism, this review focuses on the discourse of Podemos and critically examines the existing literature, delivering a detailed analysis of how the party articulated the people-vs-elite struggle as it emerged as a novel political force. It shows that Podemos’ co…
"Introduction to the Triple Special Issue "The Emotional Side of Populist Support: Key Affective Mechanisms at Test
Although research on populism has gained traction as an established field of inquiry, its affective underpinnings remain a puzzle. A relatively underexplored area of study, now garnering attention, is the intricate relationship between populism and emotions. This Triple Special Issue focuses on the demand side of populist politics, delving into populist attitudes and the role emotions play in their activation. Articles in this collection address …
Stop the boats: Populist contagion and migration policymaking in the UK
This paper argues that the Rwanda Policy was the continuation of a populist contagion process that is leading to a longer-lasting radicalization of the UK Conservatives. It examines leading Conservative politicians (Johnson, Sunak, Braverman, Patel, Cleverly), showing how they incorporated all elements of populist radical right narratives (i.e. people-centrism, anti-elitism, popular sovereignty, authoritarianism and nativism) in their justificati…
Populism, Right-Wing Movements (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)