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Extreme right-wing populism in Europe: revisiting a reified association
journal contribution
posted on 2018-02-26, 09:18 authored by Yannis Stavrakakis, Giorgos Katsambekis, Nikos Nikisianis, Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Thomas SiomosRevisiting the trend of identifying populism with extreme right parties, in this paper we aim to problematize such associations within the context of today’s Europe. Drawing on examples from relevant parties in France and the Netherlands, and applying a discourse-theoretical methodology, we test the hypothesis that such parties are better categorized primarily as nationalist and only secondarily–and reluctantly–as ‘populist’. Our hypothesis follows the remarks of scholars who have stressed that the central theme in the discourse of such parties is not the staging of an antagonism between a ‘people’ and an ‘elite’, but rather the opposition of an ethnic community with its alleged dangerous ‘others’. In this context, we propose a discursive methodology able to differentiate between ‘populist’ and ‘nationalist’ (xenophobic, racist, etc.) discourses by locating the core signifiers in each discourse in relation to peripheral ones, as well as by clarifying the nature of the axial antagonisms put forth.
Funding
This work was supported by the European Social Fund (European Union) and Greek national funds [grant number 3217].
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Politics and International Studies
Published in
Critical Discourse StudiesVolume
14Issue
4Pages
420 - 439Citation
STAVRAKAKIS, Y. ... et al, 2017. Extreme right-wing populism in Europe: revisiting a reified association. Critical Discourse Studies, 14 (4), pp.420-439.Publisher
© Taylor & FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2017-01-17Publication date
2017-04-10Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Discourse Studies on 10 Apr 2017, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2017.1309325.ISSN
1740-5904eISSN
1740-5912Publisher version
Language
- en