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
Publisher: Versita, 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.