Colm Flaherty
Biographic Data
| ID | 811326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colm Flaherty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colm |
| FAMILY NAME | Flaherty |
| SIGNATURE | FLAHERTY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roskilde University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-7674-9706 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Depoliticizing Gender Inequality: Right-Wing Cultural Repertoires of Gender Equality
European right-wing actors increasingly profess commitment to gender equality while opposing measures designed to combat gendered inequalities. While research has examined how elite actors and party rhetoric instrumentalize the language of gender equality to mobilize support, how right-wing voters understand and use the language of gender equality remains unclear. Drawing on survey data and a series of focus groups, this article analyzes how righ…
The Epistemic Habits of Danish Populists: Objectivity, Legitimacy and Evidence
Epistemic conflicts and disagreements characterise our political debates, as consensus surrounding what qualifies as legitimate knowledge in political settings becomes increasingly difficult to maintain. This article examines how right‐wing populist party voters in Denmark produce legitimate political knowledge, based on a series of focus groups conducted in different locations throughout the country. Analysing how the participants discussed migr…
Examining gender inequalities in Denmark: Traveling concepts, intersectionality, and social democracy
Although Denmark is often regarded as a forerunner in terms of gender equality, Denmark still has no dedicated gender studies departments. Departing from this puzzling fact, this article asks how researchers working in Denmark understand, analyze, and investigate gender and gender structures in Denmark. We conduct a hermeneutic literature review, focusing on research produced between 2008–2023, and demonstrate that most research analyzing gender …
Toward a cultural repertoire of populism in Denmark: Nostalgia and disengagement
While research consistently associates right-wing populism with nostalgia, few researchers have explored how ordinary populists express their longing for an idyllic past. Based on a series of focus groups with right-wing populist party voters in Denmark, this article investigates how ordinary populists creatively rework and combine diverse elements of Danish cultural repertoires to form a cultural repertoire of populism that is primarily characte…
Action dilemmas in prefigurative politics: Making prefiguration feasible in Sweden
Prefigurative political movements often attempt to create and maintain an alternative reality, where activists can enact and experiment with a desired future. Yet, sustained participation in a prefigurative project requires that individuals view this potential future as realizable and feasible. Based on a long-term ethnographic study of a radical left-libertarian movement in Sweden, I identify three dilemmas activists must solve to allow prefigur…
The challenges of reciprocity: Access, uncertainty, and politics
Ethnographers often engage in practices of reciprocity to ensure that research participants receive some benefit for their participation in research. However, practicing reciprocity involves a series of challenges. This article investigates how events during fieldwork that challenge our identities as researchers influence practices of reciprocity. The article argues that understandings and practices of reciprocity change and develop during resear…
Creating and Maintaining Free Spaces in the Radical Left
Radical social movements require free spaces to meet, interact, and mobilize. Free spaces, or settings where individuals create and maintain alternative ways of life, enable the creation of movement identities, frames, and cultures. Based on a long-term ethnographic study of a radical left-libertarian movement in Sweden, this article explores how free spaces are created, maintained, and changed. Adopting an interactionist approach, I demonstrate …
Guaranteeing social rights and regulating the public sector
Although the United States and Sweden are different in their government and legal structure, both countries have attempted to deter an increasing problem of bullying and degrading behaviour at schools. An unintended consequence in one country is to designate more youth as in need of special help and remove them from the classroom. In the other country we see an increased use of criminalisation and expulsion. This paper compares how each country t…
Creating and Maintaining Free Spaces in the Radical Left
Radical social movements require free spaces to meet, interact, and mobilize. Free spaces, or settings where individuals create and maintain alternative ways of life, enable the creation of movement identities, frames, and cultures. Based on a long-term ethnographic study of a radical left-libertarian movement in Sweden, this article explores how free spaces are created, maintained, and changed. Adopting an interactionist approach, I demonstrate …
Toward a cultural repertoire of populism in Denmark: Nostalgia and disengagement
While research consistently associates right-wing populism with nostalgia, few researchers have explored how ordinary populists express their longing for an idyllic past. Based on a series of focus groups with right-wing populist party voters in Denmark, this article investigates how ordinary populists creatively rework and combine diverse elements of Danish cultural repertoires to form a cultural repertoire of populism that is primarily characte…
The challenges of reciprocity: Access, uncertainty, and politics
Ethnographers often engage in practices of reciprocity to ensure that research participants receive some benefit for their participation in research. However, practicing reciprocity involves a series of challenges. This article investigates how events during fieldwork that challenge our identities as researchers influence practices of reciprocity. The article argues that understandings and practices of reciprocity change and develop during resear…
Guaranteeing social rights and regulating the public sector
Although the United States and Sweden are different in their government and legal structure, both countries have attempted to deter an increasing problem of bullying and degrading behaviour at schools. An unintended consequence in one country is to designate more youth as in need of special help and remove them from the classroom. In the other country we see an increased use of criminalisation and expulsion. This paper compares how each country t…
Creating and Maintaining Free Spaces in the Radical Left
Radical social movements require free spaces to meet, interact, and mobilize. Free spaces, or settings where individuals create and maintain alternative ways of life, enable the creation of movement identities, frames, and cultures. Based on a long-term ethnographic study of a radical left-libertarian movement in Sweden, this article explores how free spaces are created, maintained, and changed. Adopting an interactionist approach, I demonstrate …
Examining gender inequalities in Denmark: Traveling concepts, intersectionality, and social democracy
Although Denmark is often regarded as a forerunner in terms of gender equality, Denmark still has no dedicated gender studies departments. Departing from this puzzling fact, this article asks how researchers working in Denmark understand, analyze, and investigate gender and gender structures in Denmark. We conduct a hermeneutic literature review, focusing on research produced between 2008–2023, and demonstrate that most research analyzing gender …
Toward a cultural repertoire of populism in Denmark: Nostalgia and disengagement
While research consistently associates right-wing populism with nostalgia, few researchers have explored how ordinary populists express their longing for an idyllic past. Based on a series of focus groups with right-wing populist party voters in Denmark, this article investigates how ordinary populists creatively rework and combine diverse elements of Danish cultural repertoires to form a cultural repertoire of populism that is primarily characte…
Action dilemmas in prefigurative politics: Making prefiguration feasible in Sweden
Prefigurative political movements often attempt to create and maintain an alternative reality, where activists can enact and experiment with a desired future. Yet, sustained participation in a prefigurative project requires that individuals view this potential future as realizable and feasible. Based on a long-term ethnographic study of a radical left-libertarian movement in Sweden, I identify three dilemmas activists must solve to allow prefigur…
The challenges of reciprocity: Access, uncertainty, and politics
Ethnographers often engage in practices of reciprocity to ensure that research participants receive some benefit for their participation in research. However, practicing reciprocity involves a series of challenges. This article investigates how events during fieldwork that challenge our identities as researchers influence practices of reciprocity. The article argues that understandings and practices of reciprocity change and develop during resear…
Depoliticizing Gender Inequality: Right-Wing Cultural Repertoires of Gender Equality
European right-wing actors increasingly profess commitment to gender equality while opposing measures designed to combat gendered inequalities. While research has examined how elite actors and party rhetoric instrumentalize the language of gender equality to mobilize support, how right-wing voters understand and use the language of gender equality remains unclear. Drawing on survey data and a series of focus groups, this article analyzes how righ…
The Epistemic Habits of Danish Populists: Objectivity, Legitimacy and Evidence
Epistemic conflicts and disagreements characterise our political debates, as consensus surrounding what qualifies as legitimate knowledge in political settings becomes increasingly difficult to maintain. This article examines how right‐wing populist party voters in Denmark produce legitimate political knowledge, based on a series of focus groups conducted in different locations throughout the country. Analysing how the participants discussed migr…
Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Democracy (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (2 works)