O C Norocel
Biographic Data
| ID | 22179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | O C Norocel |
| GIVEN NAMES | O C |
| FAMILY NAME | Norocel |
| SIGNATURE | NOROCEL O C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7349-4000 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 274 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Centring European inter-imperial peripheries: Intersectional dynamics in Romania during the long election year 2024/2025
Bringing the researcher in: Methodological, ethical and institutional challenges to studying far-right politics and anti-gender mobilisations
The performance of masculinities in the 2025 presidential elections in Romania
This article examines the 2025 Romanian presidential runoff through the lens of gendered political leadership. It explores the contours of different types of masculinities in politics as performed by the two candidates, George Simion and Nicușor Dan. We analyse the political meanings of gender and sexuality in the candidates’ performances of masculinity and how these both reflect and contest Romania’s inter-imperial positioning. The study employs…
Researchers of the far right as intersectional subjects: Three Arenas for Emotional Labour
This conceptual article examines the relational dynamic between the research field focusing on the far right and those critical scholars that endeavour to undertake these studies. It is theoretically anchored in the field of political science scholarship that recognises the key role played by gender in understanding both the ideological underpinnings and the workings of various far-right entities and by intersectionality in explaining complex sys…
Technocultural worldings: Dialectical dynamics in contemporary media landscapes
In this piece, which frames the special issue “Technocultural worldings,” we build on previous editions of commentary and criticism in this journal. We propose a theoretically anchored way to systematically approach the dynamic, multidimensional, and heterogeneous technocultural communities that have created their own worldings and are engaged in complex dialectical dynamics within the contemporary media landscape. The technocultural communities …
Vernacular constructions of the relationship between freedom of speech and (potential) hate speech: The case of Finland
The blurred distinction between freedom of expression and hate speech in ever more polarised public debates across Europe and beyond has prompted research on hate speech, particularly focusing on right‐wing populist politicians. Little is known, however, about how this distinction is construed by ordinary citizens. Deploying the concept of retrogressive mobilisation, this study examines how cases of (potential) political hate speech – one targeti…
Migration and Welfare: Differential Grievabilities in the Swedish Right-Wing Continuum
In this study, we examine the way access to welfare provision for migrants is articulated discursively among three right-of-center parties in Sweden. For this, we suggest two theoretical advances. First, deploying the concept of the right-wing continuum, we highlight the gradual and reciprocal alignment between mainstream right-of-center and radical-right populist parties. Second, by resorting to the concept of grievability, we analyze the implic…
Anti-gender politics in Finland and Romania
This study examines the articulation of anti-gender politics in the parliamentary debates centred on two citizens’ initiatives in Finland and Romania. Although different in their endeavours (in Finland, supporting equal marriage rights; in Romania, attempting to legislate pre-emptively against them), these citizens’ initiatives resulted in significant defeats for the wider anti-gender campaigns in these countries. Examining closely the parliament…
Research bricolage on far-right metapolitics: Superordinate intersectionality perspectives on digital identities
This article is a reaction to previous appeals to widen the conceptual remit of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS).It proposes research bricolage as means for critical engagement with conceptual constructs originating from adjacent social science disciplines.Borrowing such concepts as far-right metapolitics from political science, superordinate intersectionality from gender studies, and Web 2.0 sociotechnical affordances from digital sociology, the…
The Dis/Articulation of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe: Introduction
This special issue examines anti-gender politics in the specific geographical and cultural space of Eastern Europe. It investigates whether the region is just another battlefield for anti-gender politics, or a unique setting for specific developments and strategies, considering the impact and legacy of specific historical experiences and sociological and cultural characteristics. The contributions map out these complex developments, examining Cze…
Re-Envisioning Immigrant Integration: Toward Multidirectional Conceptual Flows
This special issue collects articles, which aim to re-envision integration, dislodging the previously monodirectional conceptual flow sourced in the Global North. Jointly, the articles pursue a critical scholarship contributing to multicentric knowledge production, disrupting binaries of integrated/nonintegrated, inclusion/exclusion, citizen/non-citizen, or indeed self/other. They evidence ambivalent subject positions, neither fully-included nor …
Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention
In this piece, which frames the special issue, "The State of Google Critique and Intervention," we provide an overview of research focusing on Google as an object of critical study, fleshing out the European interventions that actively attempt to address its dominance. The article begins by mapping out key areas of articulating a Google critique, from the initial focus on ranking and profiling to the subsequent scrutiny of user exploitation and c…
Google, data voids, and the dynamics of the politics of exclusion
This study deploys a critical approach to big data analytics to gauge the tentative contours of data voids in Google searches that reflect extreme-right dynamics of exclusion in the aftermath of the 2015 humanitarian crisis in Europe. The study adds complexity to the analysis of data voids, expanding the framework of investigation outside the USA context by concentrating on Germany and Sweden. Building on previous big data analytics addressing th…
Disentangling radical right populism, gender, and religion: An introduction
This Special Issue provides diverse multidisciplinary entry points that convey the multi-layered complexity of the interactions between radical right populism, gender issues, and religious questions. It fills a gap in the scholarship dealing with the political and social manifestations of radical right populism. From a theoretical point of view, the connections between radical right populism and gender and between radical right populism and relig…
The conceptual imbrications of men, masculinities and crises: A reply to ‘The place and potential of crisis/crises in critical studies on men and masculinities’ by Jeff Hearn
On this matter, however, Hearn is explicitly taking a narrower approach, concentrating on 'what CSMM can gain from taking a more critical look at crisis/crises, drawing on the insights of ICS. More specifically, the place and potential of crisis and crises in relation to the politics and problematics of men and masculinities are examined' (Hearn, 2022: 564). In the following, I present Hearn's major points on the manner in which an ICS-inspired c…
Gendering Web2.0 Sociotechnical Affordances of Far-Right Metapolitics
This study examines the ways in which Web2.0 sociotechnical affordances of far-right metapolitics are gendered. Specifically, I focus on a key Swedish far-right entity that is not only an extensive publisher of far-right intellectual output, but also organizes a political salon that unites various actors from the European transnational far-right ecosystem. My explicit interests are in the performances of far-right masculinity at work in this meta…
Imbrications of gender and religion in Nordic radical right populism
We examine here how issues of gender and religion are employed for ideological purposes in the discourses of radical right populist parties in Sweden and Finland. We begin with the complexity of these societies as paragons of social welfare and gender equality, within which Lutheran Christianity discreetly underpins their largely secularised character. Employing a poststructuralist methodological approach, we analyse the key political speeches of…
Retrogressive Mobilization in the 2018 “Referendum for Family” in Romania
We approach critically the assertion that a referendum ultimately defends the “traditional family,” by examining the articulation of anti-gender politics in Romanian parliamentary debates. We contribute theoretically by employing the concept of retrogressive mobilization in plebiscitary circumstances. We show that in Romania the contours of retrogressive mobilization transgress both the ideological left–right cleavage, and even party loyalty. We …
Performing ‘us’ and ‘other’: Intersectional analyses of right-wing populist media
Finland and Sweden share the ideal of a Nordic welfare state, with gender equality as a central tenet. In both countries, right-wing populist parties have gained prominence in mainstream politics. Despite similar political agendas at the moment, these parties have different political histories, and different modes of expressing their anti-immigration pleas. In this comparative study, we examine how the distinction between ‘us’ and the ‘other’ is …
Discursive Constructions of White Nordic Masculinities in Right-wing Populist Media
Using superordinate intersectionality as a theoretical framework, this article explores notions of men and masculinities within right wing populism. It is attentive to how the right-wing populist media in Finland and Sweden construct white Nordic masculinities through discursive interactions across several axes of difference: gender (masculinities); sexuality (heterosexuality); social class (elites); and race (whitenesses). Employing Critical Dis…
Special Issue: Mapping the Discursive Opportunities for Radical-Right Populist Politics across Eastern Europe
This special issue brings together scholars of media, sociology, and political science to examine the discursive opportunities for radical-right populist politics across Eastern Europe. The articles concentrate on such soft factors as the role of media, the radicalization of public discourse, and the communication repertoires of radical-right populist actors across the region. The contributions employ both established and innovative methodologica…
Antifeminist and “Truly Liberated”: Conservative Performances of Gender by Women Politicians in Hungary and Romania
This article employs a two-level analysis to compare the discursive performance of gender on social media in Hungary and Romania; the two countries with the lowest percentage of women in politics in the European Union (EU). First, by revealing the tension between conservative views about gender roles, and social and political specificities in the two countries, the research illustrates how various parties on the conservative right ideological con…
Media Visibility and Inclusion of Radical Right Populism in Hungary and Romania: A Discursive Opportunity Approach
This article investigates the discursive opportunities for radical-right populist politics in Hungary and Romania. We argue that it is important to assess whether the discursive activities of radical-right media are reflected and included in the chains of discussion in the public sphere. The involvement and visibility of radical-right media in news coverage is considered a cue for their acceptance as legitimate actors in the wider media ecosystem…
Åkesson at Almedalen: Intersectional Tensions and Normalization of Populist Radical Right Discourse in Sweden
This study analyses the populist radical right discourse of the Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna, SD), examining how Jimmie Åkesson, the SD chairperson, conceptualized gendered social positions in the folkhem ([Swedish] people’s home) in his annual speeches in Almedalen, since the SD entered the Swedish Parliament in 2010 to date. Attention is being paid to whose voices are allowed to come forth and in which manner this is done, and to how i…
Disciplinary intersections of gender and ethnicity in populist radical right media in Romania
The present study examines how the desirable ideals of femininity for the ethno-nationalist project are framed in populist radical right media in contemporary Romania. The study examines the editorials of populist radical right party leader (Corneliu Vadim Tudor) published at election times between 2000 and 2012 in the weekly party publication. It explores the inventory of media frames, which provide the panopticon of femininity performances comi…
Culture Troubles. Politics and the Interpretation of Meaning
Discursive Constructions of White Nordic Masculinities in Right-wing Populist Media
Using superordinate intersectionality as a theoretical framework, this article explores notions of men and masculinities within right wing populism. It is attentive to how the right-wing populist media in Finland and Sweden construct white Nordic masculinities through discursive interactions across several axes of difference: gender (masculinities); sexuality (heterosexuality); social class (elites); and race (whitenesses). Employing Critical Dis…
Give Us Back Sweden!” A Feminist Reading of the (Re)Interpretations of the Folkhem Conceptual Metaphor in Swedish Radical Right Populist Discourse
The present analysis investigates the discursive redefinitions of the folkhem conceptual metaphor, which accommodates centrally located heteronormative masculinities at the intersection of gender, class, and race. It focuses on recent reinterpretations of this conceptual metaphor as heralded by the main Swedish radical right populist party, the Sweden Democrats (SD), and its leader, Jimmie Åkesson. To do so, the main tenets of conceptual metaphor…
The politics and policies of welfare chauvinism under the economic crisis
The ongoing economic crisis that emerged in the wake of the global recession in 2008, and was followed by the more recent crisis of the Eurozone, has introduced new themes and remoulded old ways of approaching the welfare state, immigration, national belonging and racism in Northern Europe. This article identifies two main ways of understanding welfare chauvinism: 1) as a broad concept that covers all sorts of claims and policies to reserve welfa…
Populist radical right protectors of the folkhem: Welfare chauvinism in Sweden
The article scrutinises a version of welfare chauvinism taking shape in Sweden, by concentrating on the concept of folkhem (the [Swedish] people’s home), and examines how it was expressed in the 2010–2014 parliamentary activity of the Sweden Democrats. It offers an analysis of how the welfare chauvinism project is first contextualised in the party documents, and subsequently articulated in the party-endorsed parliamentary motions. The article is …
Retrogressive Mobilization in the 2018 “Referendum for Family” in Romania
We approach critically the assertion that a referendum ultimately defends the “traditional family,” by examining the articulation of anti-gender politics in Romanian parliamentary debates. We contribute theoretically by employing the concept of retrogressive mobilization in plebiscitary circumstances. We show that in Romania the contours of retrogressive mobilization transgress both the ideological left–right cleavage, and even party loyalty. We …
Åkesson at Almedalen: Intersectional Tensions and Normalization of Populist Radical Right Discourse in Sweden
This study analyses the populist radical right discourse of the Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna, SD), examining how Jimmie Åkesson, the SD chairperson, conceptualized gendered social positions in the folkhem ([Swedish] people’s home) in his annual speeches in Almedalen, since the SD entered the Swedish Parliament in 2010 to date. Attention is being paid to whose voices are allowed to come forth and in which manner this is done, and to how i…
Migration and Its Enemies. Global Capital, Migrant Labour and the Nation-State
Book Reviews / Comparative Sociology 6 (2007) 508–520 517 Cohen, Robin , 2006, Migration and Its Enemies. Global Capital, Migrant Labour and the Nation-State , Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, x + 242 pp., ISBN 0-7546- 4658-0 (pb), $34.95. Th e stated endeavor of the present book is to contribute “to the intellec- tual, political and ethical understanding of migration and its enemies” (p. vi). It brings together several chapters from the earlie…
The Dis/Articulation of Anti-Gender Politics in Eastern Europe: Introduction
This special issue examines anti-gender politics in the specific geographical and cultural space of Eastern Europe. It investigates whether the region is just another battlefield for anti-gender politics, or a unique setting for specific developments and strategies, considering the impact and legacy of specific historical experiences and sociological and cultural characteristics. The contributions map out these complex developments, examining Cze…
The Panoptic Performance of Masculinity for the Romanian Ethno-Nationalist Project: Disciplinary Intersections in Populist Radical Right Print Media
Heteronormative Constructions of Romanianness: A Genealogy of Gendered Metaphors in Romanian Radical-Right Populism 2000–2009
The present article investigates the recent history of the Romanian national construct as a matrix for gendered metaphors at the beginning of the twenty-first century, as it is heralded by the main radical-right populist party the Greater Romania Party (Partidul România Mare, PRM). Focusing on the Greater Romania Magazine (Revista România Mare, RRM) - the party's main media outlet - the analysis is centered on the PRM leader's editorials during a…
Performing ‘us’ and ‘other’: Intersectional analyses of right-wing populist media
Finland and Sweden share the ideal of a Nordic welfare state, with gender equality as a central tenet. In both countries, right-wing populist parties have gained prominence in mainstream politics. Despite similar political agendas at the moment, these parties have different political histories, and different modes of expressing their anti-immigration pleas. In this comparative study, we examine how the distinction between ‘us’ and the ‘other’ is …
Antifeminist and “Truly Liberated”: Conservative Performances of Gender by Women Politicians in Hungary and Romania
This article employs a two-level analysis to compare the discursive performance of gender on social media in Hungary and Romania; the two countries with the lowest percentage of women in politics in the European Union (EU). First, by revealing the tension between conservative views about gender roles, and social and political specificities in the two countries, the research illustrates how various parties on the conservative right ideological con…
Special Issue: Mapping the Discursive Opportunities for Radical-Right Populist Politics across Eastern Europe
This special issue brings together scholars of media, sociology, and political science to examine the discursive opportunities for radical-right populist politics across Eastern Europe. The articles concentrate on such soft factors as the role of media, the radicalization of public discourse, and the communication repertoires of radical-right populist actors across the region. The contributions employ both established and innovative methodologica…
Anti-gender politics in Finland and Romania
This study examines the articulation of anti-gender politics in the parliamentary debates centred on two citizens’ initiatives in Finland and Romania. Although different in their endeavours (in Finland, supporting equal marriage rights; in Romania, attempting to legislate pre-emptively against them), these citizens’ initiatives resulted in significant defeats for the wider anti-gender campaigns in these countries. Examining closely the parliament…
Romania is a family and it needs a strict father: Conceptual metaphors at work in radical right populist discourses
Investigating Romanian radical right populism, I evidence the gendered nature of conceptual metaphors and provide insights on the specific masculinities that they underpin in such political discourses. With the 2004 presidential elections as a backdrop, the analysis focuses on how the radical right populist candidates articulated in their discourses the conceptual metaphor of the “strict father.” At first, the theoretical standpoints on conceptua…
From Where We Stand: War, Women's Activism and Feminist Analysis
Re-Envisioning Immigrant Integration: Toward Multidirectional Conceptual Flows
This special issue collects articles, which aim to re-envision integration, dislodging the previously monodirectional conceptual flow sourced in the Global North. Jointly, the articles pursue a critical scholarship contributing to multicentric knowledge production, disrupting binaries of integrated/nonintegrated, inclusion/exclusion, citizen/non-citizen, or indeed self/other. They evidence ambivalent subject positions, neither fully-included nor …
Google, data voids, and the dynamics of the politics of exclusion
This study deploys a critical approach to big data analytics to gauge the tentative contours of data voids in Google searches that reflect extreme-right dynamics of exclusion in the aftermath of the 2015 humanitarian crisis in Europe. The study adds complexity to the analysis of data voids, expanding the framework of investigation outside the USA context by concentrating on Germany and Sweden. Building on previous big data analytics addressing th…
Constructing radical right populist resistance: Metaphors of heterosexist masculinities and the family question in Sweden
The construction of radical right populist resistance around metaphors ofmasculinity at the beginning of the 21st century is a little researched area. Thisarticle accounts for the discursive redefinitions of Swedishness enabled byconceptual metaphors in order to accommodate centrally located heterosexistmasculinities at the intersection of gender, class, and ‘race’, as heralded by the main Swedish radical right populist party, the Sweden Democrat…
Migration and Welfare: Differential Grievabilities in the Swedish Right-Wing Continuum
In this study, we examine the way access to welfare provision for migrants is articulated discursively among three right-of-center parties in Sweden. For this, we suggest two theoretical advances. First, deploying the concept of the right-wing continuum, we highlight the gradual and reciprocal alignment between mainstream right-of-center and radical-right populist parties. Second, by resorting to the concept of grievability, we analyze the implic…
Gendering Web2.0 Sociotechnical Affordances of Far-Right Metapolitics
This study examines the ways in which Web2.0 sociotechnical affordances of far-right metapolitics are gendered. Specifically, I focus on a key Swedish far-right entity that is not only an extensive publisher of far-right intellectual output, but also organizes a political salon that unites various actors from the European transnational far-right ecosystem. My explicit interests are in the performances of far-right masculinity at work in this meta…
Media Visibility and Inclusion of Radical Right Populism in Hungary and Romania: A Discursive Opportunity Approach
This article investigates the discursive opportunities for radical-right populist politics in Hungary and Romania. We argue that it is important to assess whether the discursive activities of radical-right media are reflected and included in the chains of discussion in the public sphere. The involvement and visibility of radical-right media in news coverage is considered a cue for their acceptance as legitimate actors in the wider media ecosystem…
Research bricolage on far-right metapolitics: Superordinate intersectionality perspectives on digital identities
This article is a reaction to previous appeals to widen the conceptual remit of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS).It proposes research bricolage as means for critical engagement with conceptual constructs originating from adjacent social science disciplines.Borrowing such concepts as far-right metapolitics from political science, superordinate intersectionality from gender studies, and Web 2.0 sociotechnical affordances from digital sociology, the…
Advancing search engine studies: The evolution of Google critique and intervention
In this piece, which frames the special issue, "The State of Google Critique and Intervention," we provide an overview of research focusing on Google as an object of critical study, fleshing out the European interventions that actively attempt to address its dominance. The article begins by mapping out key areas of articulating a Google critique, from the initial focus on ranking and profiling to the subsequent scrutiny of user exploitation and c…
Migration and Its Enemies. Global Capital, Migrant Labour and the Nation-State
Book Reviews / Comparative Sociology 6 (2007) 508–520 517 Cohen, Robin , 2006, Migration and Its Enemies. Global Capital, Migrant Labour and the Nation-State , Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, x + 242 pp., ISBN 0-7546- 4658-0 (pb), $34.95. Th e stated endeavor of the present book is to contribute “to the intellec- tual, political and ethical understanding of migration and its enemies” (p. vi). It brings together several chapters from the earlie…
Culture Troubles. Politics and the Interpretation of Meaning
The curious feminist: Searching for women in a new age of empire by Enloe, Cynthia
Empires, nations, and natives: Anthropology and state-making edited by de L'Estoile, Benoît, Federico Neiburg, and Lygia Sigaud
Neo-nationalism in Europe and beyond: Perspectives from social anthropology edited by Gingrich, Andre, and Marcus Banks
Postsocialism: Politics and emotions in Central and Eastern Europe edited by Svašek, Maruška
From Where We Stand: War, Women's Activism and Feminist Analysis
Romania is a family and it needs a strict father: Conceptual metaphors at work in radical right populist discourses
Investigating Romanian radical right populism, I evidence the gendered nature of conceptual metaphors and provide insights on the specific masculinities that they underpin in such political discourses. With the 2004 presidential elections as a backdrop, the analysis focuses on how the radical right populist candidates articulated in their discourses the conceptual metaphor of the “strict father.” At first, the theoretical standpoints on conceptua…
Gendering violence in the school shootings in Finland
Within barely a year, two school shootings shook Finland. The school shootings shocked Finnish society, forcing media, academics and experts, police and politicians alike to search for reasons behind the violent incidents. Focusing their analysis on the two main Finnish newspapers, Helsingin Sanomat and Hufvudstadsbladet , authoritative sources of information for Finland’s two language communities, the authors maintain that the Finnish case contr…
Heteronormative Constructions of Romanianness: A Genealogy of Gendered Metaphors in Romanian Radical-Right Populism 2000–2009
The present article investigates the recent history of the Romanian national construct as a matrix for gendered metaphors at the beginning of the twenty-first century, as it is heralded by the main radical-right populist party the Greater Romania Party (Partidul România Mare, PRM). Focusing on the Greater Romania Magazine (Revista România Mare, RRM) - the party's main media outlet - the analysis is centered on the PRM leader's editorials during a…
Constructing radical right populist resistance: Metaphors of heterosexist masculinities and the family question in Sweden
The construction of radical right populist resistance around metaphors ofmasculinity at the beginning of the 21st century is a little researched area. Thisarticle accounts for the discursive redefinitions of Swedishness enabled byconceptual metaphors in order to accommodate centrally located heterosexistmasculinities at the intersection of gender, class, and ‘race’, as heralded by the main Swedish radical right populist party, the Sweden Democrat…
Give Us Back Sweden!” A Feminist Reading of the (Re)Interpretations of the Folkhem Conceptual Metaphor in Swedish Radical Right Populist Discourse
The present analysis investigates the discursive redefinitions of the folkhem conceptual metaphor, which accommodates centrally located heteronormative masculinities at the intersection of gender, class, and race. It focuses on recent reinterpretations of this conceptual metaphor as heralded by the main Swedish radical right populist party, the Sweden Democrats (SD), and its leader, Jimmie Åkesson. To do so, the main tenets of conceptual metaphor…
The Panoptic Performance of Masculinity for the Romanian Ethno-Nationalist Project: Disciplinary Intersections in Populist Radical Right Print Media
Disciplinary intersections of gender and ethnicity in populist radical right media in Romania
The present study examines how the desirable ideals of femininity for the ethno-nationalist project are framed in populist radical right media in contemporary Romania. The study examines the editorials of populist radical right party leader (Corneliu Vadim Tudor) published at election times between 2000 and 2012 in the weekly party publication. It explores the inventory of media frames, which provide the panopticon of femininity performances comi…
The politics and policies of welfare chauvinism under the economic crisis
The ongoing economic crisis that emerged in the wake of the global recession in 2008, and was followed by the more recent crisis of the Eurozone, has introduced new themes and remoulded old ways of approaching the welfare state, immigration, national belonging and racism in Northern Europe. This article identifies two main ways of understanding welfare chauvinism: 1) as a broad concept that covers all sorts of claims and policies to reserve welfa…
Populist radical right protectors of the folkhem: Welfare chauvinism in Sweden
The article scrutinises a version of welfare chauvinism taking shape in Sweden, by concentrating on the concept of folkhem (the [Swedish] people’s home), and examines how it was expressed in the 2010–2014 parliamentary activity of the Sweden Democrats. It offers an analysis of how the welfare chauvinism project is first contextualised in the party documents, and subsequently articulated in the party-endorsed parliamentary motions. The article is …
Åkesson at Almedalen: Intersectional Tensions and Normalization of Populist Radical Right Discourse in Sweden
This study analyses the populist radical right discourse of the Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna, SD), examining how Jimmie Åkesson, the SD chairperson, conceptualized gendered social positions in the folkhem ([Swedish] people’s home) in his annual speeches in Almedalen, since the SD entered the Swedish Parliament in 2010 to date. Attention is being paid to whose voices are allowed to come forth and in which manner this is done, and to how i…
Antifeminist and “Truly Liberated”: Conservative Performances of Gender by Women Politicians in Hungary and Romania
This article employs a two-level analysis to compare the discursive performance of gender on social media in Hungary and Romania; the two countries with the lowest percentage of women in politics in the European Union (EU). First, by revealing the tension between conservative views about gender roles, and social and political specificities in the two countries, the research illustrates how various parties on the conservative right ideological con…
Media Visibility and Inclusion of Radical Right Populism in Hungary and Romania: A Discursive Opportunity Approach
This article investigates the discursive opportunities for radical-right populist politics in Hungary and Romania. We argue that it is important to assess whether the discursive activities of radical-right media are reflected and included in the chains of discussion in the public sphere. The involvement and visibility of radical-right media in news coverage is considered a cue for their acceptance as legitimate actors in the wider media ecosystem…
Special Issue: Mapping the Discursive Opportunities for Radical-Right Populist Politics across Eastern Europe
This special issue brings together scholars of media, sociology, and political science to examine the discursive opportunities for radical-right populist politics across Eastern Europe. The articles concentrate on such soft factors as the role of media, the radicalization of public discourse, and the communication repertoires of radical-right populist actors across the region. The contributions employ both established and innovative methodologica…
Performing ‘us’ and ‘other’: Intersectional analyses of right-wing populist media
Finland and Sweden share the ideal of a Nordic welfare state, with gender equality as a central tenet. In both countries, right-wing populist parties have gained prominence in mainstream politics. Despite similar political agendas at the moment, these parties have different political histories, and different modes of expressing their anti-immigration pleas. In this comparative study, we examine how the distinction between ‘us’ and the ‘other’ is …
Discursive Constructions of White Nordic Masculinities in Right-wing Populist Media
Using superordinate intersectionality as a theoretical framework, this article explores notions of men and masculinities within right wing populism. It is attentive to how the right-wing populist media in Finland and Sweden construct white Nordic masculinities through discursive interactions across several axes of difference: gender (masculinities); sexuality (heterosexuality); social class (elites); and race (whitenesses). Employing Critical Dis…
Imbrications of gender and religion in Nordic radical right populism
We examine here how issues of gender and religion are employed for ideological purposes in the discourses of radical right populist parties in Sweden and Finland. We begin with the complexity of these societies as paragons of social welfare and gender equality, within which Lutheran Christianity discreetly underpins their largely secularised character. Employing a poststructuralist methodological approach, we analyse the key political speeches of…
Retrogressive Mobilization in the 2018 “Referendum for Family” in Romania
We approach critically the assertion that a referendum ultimately defends the “traditional family,” by examining the articulation of anti-gender politics in Romanian parliamentary debates. We contribute theoretically by employing the concept of retrogressive mobilization in plebiscitary circumstances. We show that in Romania the contours of retrogressive mobilization transgress both the ideological left–right cleavage, and even party loyalty. We …
Disentangling radical right populism, gender, and religion: An introduction
This Special Issue provides diverse multidisciplinary entry points that convey the multi-layered complexity of the interactions between radical right populism, gender issues, and religious questions. It fills a gap in the scholarship dealing with the political and social manifestations of radical right populism. From a theoretical point of view, the connections between radical right populism and gender and between radical right populism and relig…
Sociology (35 works) · Political science (32 works) · Law (29 works) · Politics (29 works) · Gender Studies (24 works) · Law (19 works) · Gender Studies (18 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (17 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (12 works) · Radical right (10 works)