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




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

Keskinen Suvi

PublisherVersita, De Guyter

2013

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

NJMR

6

4

3

4

225

232

1799-649X




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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