Spaces of Right-Wing Populism and Anti-Muslim Racism in Austria: Identitarian Movement, Civil Initiative and the Fight against 'Islamisation'

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.politologickycasopis.cz/cz/archiv/2016/2/" target="_blank" >http://www.politologickycasopis.cz/cz/archiv/2016/2/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/PC2016-2-131" target="_blank" >10.5817/PC2016-2-131</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Spaces of Right-Wing Populism and Anti-Muslim Racism in Austria: Identitarian Movement, Civil Initiative and the Fight against 'Islamisation'

Original language description

This article argues that the current right-wing social movements in Austria are taking part in a right-wing populist hegemonic project relying on anti-Muslim racism, anti-immigration sentiment and xeno-racism (Fekete 2001). Analysing texts and interviews of two right-wing pupulist social movements, the Identitarian Movement and the Civil initiatives against the building of mosques, with a critical frame analysis approach, the paper identifies their spaces of political action with the aim of understanding their success. We argue that, rather than competing with the Austrian Freedom Party in the space of national (party) politics, these movements have stablished their own niches in theAustrian political space. This strategy not only enables them to co-exist with the main right-wing populist actor, the Freedom Partz, in a mutually supportive environment, but it also broadens the right-wing populist discursive strategy of constructing a double antagonism between 'us' and 'them' (the Elite) and 'the others'. Hence, while the Identitarian Movement is concerned with meta-politics on the level of the 'supra-regional' space which is understood to shape European culture and 'ethnic identity', the civil initiatives' niche is located on the local level and is presented as the space where conflicts between 'us' and 'the other' are experienced. In our approach of analysing spaces of political action, we argue that recent right-wing populism is successful because it manages to 'diversify' spaces of action and to colonize all levels of social life with its idea of antagonistic politics.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AD - Political sciences

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Politologický časopis

ISSN

1211-3247

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

131-148

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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