A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Antifeminism and white identity politics – Political antagonisms in radical right-wing populist and anti-immigration rhetoric in Finland




SubtitlePolitical antagonisms in radical right-wing populist and anti-immigration rhetoric in Finland

AuthorsKeskinen Suvi

PublisherVersita, De Guyter

Publication year2013

JournalNordic Journal of Migration Research

Journal acronymNJMR

Article number6

Number in series4

Volume3

Issue4

First page 225

Last page232

ISSN1799-649X


Abstract

This article analyses how gendered, racialised and classed antagonisms are

created in texts by radical right-wing populists and intellectuals connected to

the anti-immigration movement and the antifeminist men’s rights movement in

Finland. The studied rhetoric focuses on the reproduction of the “white nation”

as part of the endangered “Western civilisation”; a feminism “gone too far”

and shifts in heterosexual power relations in the postcolonial era. The rhetoric

is discussed as political reimaginations that aim to recentre white masculinity

in a society that has seen its self-evident and normative position questioned.




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