Emilia Palonen
Biographic Data
| ID | 240780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emilia Palonen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emilia |
| FAMILY NAME | Palonen |
| SIGNATURE | PALONEN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9868-7290 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Inclusion and Exclusion in Urban Public Space: Contemporary Challenges in Vienna and Helsinki
Public spaces facilitate interactions among people from diverse backgrounds and serve as arenas that offer valuable insights into societal dynamics. They have the potential to promote inclusion, yet they can also foster exclusionary practices. Focusing on the years 2022 and 2023, and the cases of Vienna and Helsinki, this article examines how different actors, from the city administration to local stakeholders and young people, perceive and negot…
Protecting the future ‘Us’: A rhetoric-performative multimodal analysis of the polarising far-right YouTube campaign videos in Finland
The far right is active on social media, including YouTube for its outreach, community-building and mainstreaming of radical content. This article compares campaign videos of two distinct Finnish far-right parties. It develops a rhetoric-performative and multimodal analysis of audiovisual material and unveils how the contemporary Finnish far right articulates and performs affectively ‘us’ through counterhegemonic articulation on YouTube with conn…
Rupture and continuity: Fidesz and the Hungarian revolutionary tradition
Le concept de révolution joue un rôle important dans la vie politique hongroise, qu’il traduise un sentiment de continuité ou de rupture. L’écriture de l’histoire de la Hongrie s’est opérée en mettant l’accent sur l’idée d’un continuum historique entrecoupé de révolutions. Ce sont ces dernières que les élites politiques parvenues au pouvoir ont interprété tour à tour à leur façon. Ainsi, la victoire électorale éclatante du parti Fidesz au printem…
Nationalism, populism or peopleism? Clarifying the distinction through a two‐dimensional lens
Prompted by recent scholarly debates on the distinction between populism and nationalism, we elaborate on the Laclaudian understanding of populism as an antagonistic form of us‐building/community‐making that relies on the extension of equivalential chains between demands. From this heuristic perspective, populism can be understood as an empty form to be filled with different contents, such as nationalism. Our radically anti‐essentialist stance co…
Performing Covid-19 Control in Finland: Interpretative Topic Modelling and Discourse Theoretical Reading of the Government Communication and Hashtag Landscape
This article discusses discursive transformations in the performance of the government and the “hashtag landscape,” studying Twitter discussions and the female-led government of one of the youngest Prime Ministers in the world, Sanna Marin of Finland. Among the countries in Europe, Finland has been, in the period of analysis of March 2020 to January 2021, one of the least affected countries by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our datasets from both Twitter…
Democracy vs. demography: Rethinking politics and the people as debate
Rise of populist politics in the 21s century calls scholars and politicians alike to reflect upon the question of how politics and democracy have been understood. Drawing on the theory of hegemony, this article establishes a distinction between democracy and ‘demography’ as a key line of conceptualization in politics. It highlights a central misunderstanding at the core of the demonization of populism: For radical democratic theory, ‘the people’ …
Performing the nation: The Janus-faced populist foundations of illiberalism in Hungary
Hungary once represented a school-book case of transition to democracy. Now it offers insights into both contemporary Europe and theories of populism and nationalism. Resisting the traditional linear perspective to transition and a ‘demographic’ view of democracy, this article explores the relationships among democracy, populism and nationalism. This article operationalises performative and post-foundational theory of populism as a logic of artic…
Complex Futures: Problems and Performance of Populism
Book reviews. Reviewed works: Was ist Populismus? Ein Essay / Jan-Werner Müller. - Surhkamp, 2016. 160 pages. ISBN 9783518075227 & Global Rise of Populism: Performance, Political Style, and Representation / Benjamin Moffitt. - Stanford University Press, 2016. 224 pages. ISBN 9780804799331
Imagining Europe: Myth, memory, and identity
Michael J. Shapiro: The Time of the City: Politics, Philosophy and Genre
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
The Politics of Memory
Millennial politics of architecture: Myths and nationhood in Budapest
Politics in Hungary since 1989 has been focusing on nation-building. Each government has had a license to articulate what it is to be Hungarian, in the public realm with public funds. While current political debates are heated and focus yet again on defining Hungarian national identity, this article takes a distance from contemporary politics. It studies a situation ten years earlier, when the current government party Fidesz -which took a landsli…
Transition to Crisis in H ungary: Whistle‐Blowing on the Naked Emperor
This article investigates H ungary, a new democracy in E ast‐ C entral E urope and a whistle‐blower in the recent world economic crisis. A dramatic budget deficit was revealed after the elections of 2006 when the prime minister admitted the government had “lied day and night.” The “transition to democracy” was a result of round‐table talks that brought liberal economic reforms and recently resulted in a crisis of democracy. Revealing the emperor …
Multi-Level Cultural Policy and Politics of European Capitals of Culture
Rather than exploring culture-led urban transformations, media representations or city-image building, this article tackles the way in which the European capitals of culture (ECOC) has been a local, regional, national or European task. The responsibility for the event and the possibility to use it to articulate political identities is transferred from one level to another. This article discusses the ECOC as multi-level policy on European, nationa…
Political Polarisation and Populism in Contemporary Hungary
Journal Article Political Polarisation and Populism in Contemporary Hungary Get access Emilia Palonen Emilia Palonen University of JyväskyläFinland [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 62, Issue 2, April 2009, Pages 318–334, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsn048 Published: 20 January 2009
The city-text in post-communist Budapest: Street names, memorials, and the politics of commemoration
Political Polarisation and Populism in Contemporary Hungary
Journal Article Political Polarisation and Populism in Contemporary Hungary Get access Emilia Palonen Emilia Palonen University of JyväskyläFinland [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 62, Issue 2, April 2009, Pages 318–334, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsn048 Published: 20 January 2009
The city-text in post-communist Budapest: Street names, memorials, and the politics of commemoration
Performing the nation: The Janus-faced populist foundations of illiberalism in Hungary
Hungary once represented a school-book case of transition to democracy. Now it offers insights into both contemporary Europe and theories of populism and nationalism. Resisting the traditional linear perspective to transition and a ‘demographic’ view of democracy, this article explores the relationships among democracy, populism and nationalism. This article operationalises performative and post-foundational theory of populism as a logic of artic…
Nationalism, populism or peopleism? Clarifying the distinction through a two‐dimensional lens
Prompted by recent scholarly debates on the distinction between populism and nationalism, we elaborate on the Laclaudian understanding of populism as an antagonistic form of us‐building/community‐making that relies on the extension of equivalential chains between demands. From this heuristic perspective, populism can be understood as an empty form to be filled with different contents, such as nationalism. Our radically anti‐essentialist stance co…
Democracy vs. demography: Rethinking politics and the people as debate
Rise of populist politics in the 21s century calls scholars and politicians alike to reflect upon the question of how politics and democracy have been understood. Drawing on the theory of hegemony, this article establishes a distinction between democracy and ‘demography’ as a key line of conceptualization in politics. It highlights a central misunderstanding at the core of the demonization of populism: For radical democratic theory, ‘the people’ …
Transition to Crisis in H ungary: Whistle‐Blowing on the Naked Emperor
This article investigates H ungary, a new democracy in E ast‐ C entral E urope and a whistle‐blower in the recent world economic crisis. A dramatic budget deficit was revealed after the elections of 2006 when the prime minister admitted the government had “lied day and night.” The “transition to democracy” was a result of round‐table talks that brought liberal economic reforms and recently resulted in a crisis of democracy. Revealing the emperor …
Millennial politics of architecture: Myths and nationhood in Budapest
Politics in Hungary since 1989 has been focusing on nation-building. Each government has had a license to articulate what it is to be Hungarian, in the public realm with public funds. While current political debates are heated and focus yet again on defining Hungarian national identity, this article takes a distance from contemporary politics. It studies a situation ten years earlier, when the current government party Fidesz -which took a landsli…
Performing Covid-19 Control in Finland: Interpretative Topic Modelling and Discourse Theoretical Reading of the Government Communication and Hashtag Landscape
This article discusses discursive transformations in the performance of the government and the “hashtag landscape,” studying Twitter discussions and the female-led government of one of the youngest Prime Ministers in the world, Sanna Marin of Finland. Among the countries in Europe, Finland has been, in the period of analysis of March 2020 to January 2021, one of the least affected countries by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our datasets from both Twitter…
The city-text in post-communist Budapest: Street names, memorials, and the politics of commemoration
Political Polarisation and Populism in Contemporary Hungary
Journal Article Political Polarisation and Populism in Contemporary Hungary Get access Emilia Palonen Emilia Palonen University of JyväskyläFinland [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 62, Issue 2, April 2009, Pages 318–334, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsn048 Published: 20 January 2009
Multi-Level Cultural Policy and Politics of European Capitals of Culture
Rather than exploring culture-led urban transformations, media representations or city-image building, this article tackles the way in which the European capitals of culture (ECOC) has been a local, regional, national or European task. The responsibility for the event and the possibility to use it to articulate political identities is transferred from one level to another. This article discusses the ECOC as multi-level policy on European, nationa…
Transition to Crisis in H ungary: Whistle‐Blowing on the Naked Emperor
This article investigates H ungary, a new democracy in E ast‐ C entral E urope and a whistle‐blower in the recent world economic crisis. A dramatic budget deficit was revealed after the elections of 2006 when the prime minister admitted the government had “lied day and night.” The “transition to democracy” was a result of round‐table talks that brought liberal economic reforms and recently resulted in a crisis of democracy. Revealing the emperor …
Michael J. Shapiro: The Time of the City: Politics, Philosophy and Genre
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
The Politics of Memory
Millennial politics of architecture: Myths and nationhood in Budapest
Politics in Hungary since 1989 has been focusing on nation-building. Each government has had a license to articulate what it is to be Hungarian, in the public realm with public funds. While current political debates are heated and focus yet again on defining Hungarian national identity, this article takes a distance from contemporary politics. It studies a situation ten years earlier, when the current government party Fidesz -which took a landsli…
Imagining Europe: Myth, memory, and identity
Complex Futures: Problems and Performance of Populism
Book reviews. Reviewed works: Was ist Populismus? Ein Essay / Jan-Werner Müller. - Surhkamp, 2016. 160 pages. ISBN 9783518075227 & Global Rise of Populism: Performance, Political Style, and Representation / Benjamin Moffitt. - Stanford University Press, 2016. 224 pages. ISBN 9780804799331
Performing the nation: The Janus-faced populist foundations of illiberalism in Hungary
Hungary once represented a school-book case of transition to democracy. Now it offers insights into both contemporary Europe and theories of populism and nationalism. Resisting the traditional linear perspective to transition and a ‘demographic’ view of democracy, this article explores the relationships among democracy, populism and nationalism. This article operationalises performative and post-foundational theory of populism as a logic of artic…
Performing Covid-19 Control in Finland: Interpretative Topic Modelling and Discourse Theoretical Reading of the Government Communication and Hashtag Landscape
This article discusses discursive transformations in the performance of the government and the “hashtag landscape,” studying Twitter discussions and the female-led government of one of the youngest Prime Ministers in the world, Sanna Marin of Finland. Among the countries in Europe, Finland has been, in the period of analysis of March 2020 to January 2021, one of the least affected countries by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our datasets from both Twitter…
Democracy vs. demography: Rethinking politics and the people as debate
Rise of populist politics in the 21s century calls scholars and politicians alike to reflect upon the question of how politics and democracy have been understood. Drawing on the theory of hegemony, this article establishes a distinction between democracy and ‘demography’ as a key line of conceptualization in politics. It highlights a central misunderstanding at the core of the demonization of populism: For radical democratic theory, ‘the people’ …
Rupture and continuity: Fidesz and the Hungarian revolutionary tradition
Le concept de révolution joue un rôle important dans la vie politique hongroise, qu’il traduise un sentiment de continuité ou de rupture. L’écriture de l’histoire de la Hongrie s’est opérée en mettant l’accent sur l’idée d’un continuum historique entrecoupé de révolutions. Ce sont ces dernières que les élites politiques parvenues au pouvoir ont interprété tour à tour à leur façon. Ainsi, la victoire électorale éclatante du parti Fidesz au printem…
Nationalism, populism or peopleism? Clarifying the distinction through a two‐dimensional lens
Prompted by recent scholarly debates on the distinction between populism and nationalism, we elaborate on the Laclaudian understanding of populism as an antagonistic form of us‐building/community‐making that relies on the extension of equivalential chains between demands. From this heuristic perspective, populism can be understood as an empty form to be filled with different contents, such as nationalism. Our radically anti‐essentialist stance co…
Protecting the future ‘Us’: A rhetoric-performative multimodal analysis of the polarising far-right YouTube campaign videos in Finland
The far right is active on social media, including YouTube for its outreach, community-building and mainstreaming of radical content. This article compares campaign videos of two distinct Finnish far-right parties. It develops a rhetoric-performative and multimodal analysis of audiovisual material and unveils how the contemporary Finnish far right articulates and performs affectively ‘us’ through counterhegemonic articulation on YouTube with conn…
Inclusion and Exclusion in Urban Public Space: Contemporary Challenges in Vienna and Helsinki
Public spaces facilitate interactions among people from diverse backgrounds and serve as arenas that offer valuable insights into societal dynamics. They have the potential to promote inclusion, yet they can also foster exclusionary practices. Focusing on the years 2022 and 2023, and the cases of Vienna and Helsinki, this article examines how different actors, from the city administration to local stakeholders and young people, perceive and negot…
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