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Really existing liberalism, the bulwark fantasy, and the enabling of reactionary, far right politics1
In: Constellations: an international journal of critical and democratic theory
ISSN: 1467-8675
Epistemologies of ignorance in far right studies: the invisibilisation of racism and whiteness in times of populist hype
In: Acta politica: AP ; international journal of political Science, Band 58, Heft 4, S. 876-894
ISSN: 1741-1416
AbstractResearch on the far right has been a booming field for decades now, with far-right parties generally being much more researched than their right, centre and left counterparts, even when they are marginal in terms of politics or electoral support. Yet, for a field that is notorious for its lively definitional debates and tendency to evolve and reinvent itself terminologically, it has appeared unwilling to engage with the concepts of race, racism and whiteness, or with its very positioning in political structures. Through a mixed-methods discursive approach, this article analyses the titles and abstracts of all articles published in peer-reviewed journal in the sub-field of far right studies between 2016 and 2021 (n = 2543) to highlight which terms and concepts are primed and which are obscured. This article highlights a tendency to prime euphemising terms and concepts such as 'populism' and avoid those which engage with systemic and structural forms of oppression such as racism and whiteness. This article thus aims to both map and make sense of the absence of whiteness and racism in the corpus by arguing that it is a symbol of the ongoing presence of colourblind approaches and a lack of reckoning with the scale and pervasion of systemic racism in contemporary societies.
Populism, public opinion, and the mainstreaming of the far right: The 'immigration issue' and the construction of a reactionary 'people'
In: Politics, S. 026339572211047
ISSN: 1467-9256
While mainstream elite actors with the ability to shape public discourse (politicians, academics, and the media) generally oppose far-right politics, it is widely argued that such politics represent democratic populist grievances, whether cultural or economic: 'this is what the people want' and the mainstream should listen. Building on discourse theoretical approaches, this article uses opinion surveys on immigration to argue that rather than following 'what the people want', elite actors play an active part in shaping and constructing public opinion and legitimising reactionary politics. This article thus interrogates how public opinion is constructed through a process of mediation, how certain narratives are hyped and others obstructed. What this highlights is that rather than the result of a simple bottom-up 'democratic' demand, the rise of the far right must also be studied and understood as a top-down process: public opinion is not only a construction but also an agenda shaper, rather than a simple agenda tester. This article ultimately finds that 'the people' can be misrepresented in four principal ways: a people to be followed; a people to be blamed; a people to legitimise reactionary and elitist discourse and politics; and a circumscribed people.
Limiting democratic horizons to a nationalist reaction: populism, the radical right and the working class
In: Mondon , A 2017 , ' Limiting democratic horizons to a nationalist reaction: populism, the radical right and the working class ' , Javnost - The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture , vol. 24 , no. 4 , pp. 355-374 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2017.1330085
Since the 1990s, the term 'populism' has become increasingly linked to reconstructed radical right parties in Europe such as the French Front National and UKIP. Through its many uses and misuses in mainstream discourse, this association has created a mythology around such parties and their appeal to the 'people'. This development has facilitated the return of nationalism and racism to the forefront of the mainstream political discourse and simultaneously obscured the deeper causes for such a revival. This article explores the ways in which populist hype, based on a skewed understanding of democracy as majority, has divided the 'people' along arbitrary lines, tearing communities apart at the expense of more emancipatory actions. Based predominantly on electoral analysis and discourse theory, with a particular focus on the role of abstention, the aim of this article is to examine the process through which, by way of its involuntary and constructed association with the radical right, the 'people', and the working class in particular, have become essentialised in a nationalist project, moving further away from a narrative of class struggle towards one of race struggle.
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The French secular hypocrisy: the extreme right, the Republic and the battle for hegemony
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 49, Heft 4, S. 392-413
ISSN: 1461-7331
Populism, the 'people' and the illusion of democracy – The Front National and UKIP in a comparative context
In: French politics, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 141-156
ISSN: 1476-3427
The French secular hypocrisy:the extreme right, the Republic and the battle for hegemony
In: Mondon , A 2015 , ' The French secular hypocrisy : the extreme right, the Republic and the battle for hegemony ' , Patterns of Prejudice , vol. 49 , no. 4 , pp. 392-413 . https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2015.1069063
While the left and extreme left have gained support during the crisis, there is no doubt that it is the extreme right which has seen its fortunes improved the most dramatically in many European liberal democracies. Yet their success was not limited to their electoral rise and a more long-lasting victory has taken place in the ideological field, where the discourse of the extreme right occupies now a prominent place in the mainstream liberal democratic agenda. It is therefore no longer surprising to see extreme right leaders such as Geert Wilders or Marine Le Pen being invited to give talks in prestigious universities across the globe or appear on prime time television, even outside of electoral campaigns. Increasingly, their ideas are seen in the media and within the ranks of mainstream parties as 'common sense', or at least acceptable. The growing acceptance of this 'common sense' is the result of very carefully crafted strategies put in place by extreme right thinkers since the 1980s. For over three decades now, in order to change perceptions and renew extreme right-wing ideology, New Right thinktanks such as the French GRECE believed it was necessary to borrow the tactics of the left, and more specifically the Gramscian concept of hegemony: cultural power must precede political power. This article will demonstrate the impact these ideas have had on the Front National in particular, and how this change has originated in the association of populist rhetoric with the neo-racist stigmatisation of an 'Other'. While France will be used as a case study, it will be argued that similar strategies have been adopted successfully by many parties in Europe.
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Populism, the 'people' and the illusion of democracy:the Front National and UKIP in a comparative context
In: Mondon , A 2015 , ' Populism, the 'people' and the illusion of democracy : the Front National and UKIP in a comparative context ' , French Politics , vol. 13 , no. 2 , pp. 141–156 . https://doi.org/10.1057/fp.2015.6
The 2014 European elections confirmed the prominence in the media of what is commonly called the far right. While parties such as the Front National and UKIP were successful in the elections, their performance has since been exaggerated and they have benefited from a disproportionate coverage. Aiding their apparently 'irresistible rise', their normalisation was greatly facilitated by their description as 'populist' parties. However, while this term 'populism' has been almost universally accepted in the media, it remains a hotly debated concept on the academic circuit, and its careless use could in fact prove counterproductive in the assessment of the current state of democracy in Europe. Instead of focusing on the reasons behind the rise of these parties, similarities and differences already widely covered in the literature, this article hypothesises that a skewed and disproportionate coverage of the European elections in particular, and the 'rise' of 'right-wing populism' in general, have prevented a thorough democratic discussion from taking place and impeded the possibility of other political alternatives.
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The French secular hypocrisy: the extreme right, the Republic and the battle for hegemony
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 49, Heft 4, S. 392
ISSN: 0031-322X
Nicolas Sarkozy's legitimization of the Front National: background and perspectives
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 47, Heft 1, S. 22-40
ISSN: 1461-7331
Nicolas Sarkozy's legitimization of the Front National: background and perspectives
In: Mondon , A 2013 , ' Nicolas Sarkozy's legitimization of the Front National: background and perspectives ' , Patterns of Prejudice , vol. 47 , no. 1 , pp. 22-40 . https://doi.org/10.1080/0031322X.2012.735128
In the 'poor' result achieved by Jean-Marie Le Pen in the 2007 presidential elections, many commentators saw the demise of the Front National. However, when asked by a journalist whether it was the end of her father's political career, Marine Le Pen smilingly replied: 'I don't think so. In any case, this is the victory of his ideas!' In this question and answer lies the whole story of the Front National and its impact on mainstream politics in the past two decades. First, Le Pen's defeat was exaggerated, the same way his victory had been in 2002. What Mondon argues in this paper is that the 2002 presidential elections did act as an 'earthquake' within French politics. However, this 'earthquake' did not trigger a tsunami of support for Jean-Marie Le Pen, but rather a tidal wave of misinformation and misunderstanding as to the real significance of the election results. By concentrating on the 2002 and 2007 presidential elections, Mondon highlights how this reaction led to the consecration of right-wing populist politics, best exemplified in the landslide election of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007. He also provides an insight into the slippery slope Sarkozy's government took after its election, leading to an extremely rightward-leaning 2012 presidential campaign and new heights for the Front National.
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Nicolas Sarkozy's legitimization of the Front National: background and perspectives
In: Patterns of prejudice: a publication of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research and the American Jewish Committee, Band 47, Heft 1, S. 22-40
ISSN: 0031-322X
An Australian immunisation to the extreme right?
In: Social identities: journal for the study of race, nation and culture, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 355-372
ISSN: 1363-0296