Abstract and References

The concept of femonationalism (Farris 2017) refers to the strategic appropriation of feminist ideals for anti-Muslim politics. While this model has primarily been studied in political and social science contexts, it is increasingly gaining attention in linguistics as well. The lecture will analyze selected programs of the right-wing populist AfD (Germany) and the Perussuomalaiset (PS, Finland), as well as the Facebook appearances of their leaders (Alice Weidel and Riikka Purra), to identify possible patterns and similarities. The central question is whether and to what extent femonationalist strategies are evident in the posts of these politicians and how differences manifest in their Facebook representations. The principle of "calculated ambivalence" (Reisigl 2020) will be applied in the analysis. Additionally, the lecture will discuss the methodologies used in the presented research and explore how the chosen research question can be operationalized for other contexts.

References

Dietze, Gabriele (2022): Right-Wing Populism and Gender. In: Michael Oswald (Hg.): The Palgrave handbook of populism. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave handbooks), S. 277–290.

Farris, Sara (2017): In the Name of Women’s Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism. Durham and London.

Möser, Cornelia (2022): The Scandal of Women’s Emancipation. Femonationalism, Right-Wing Sexual Politics, and Anti-Feminism. In: Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 29 (4), S. 1544–1565. DOI: 10.1093/sp/jxac012.

Reisigl, Martin (2020): Mit zweierlei Maß gemessen – Kalkulierte Ambivalenz in rechtspopulistischen Repräsentationen von Geschlechterverhältnissen. In: Z Literaturwiss Linguistik 50 (2), S. 203–229. DOI: 10.1007/s41244-020-00167-y.