Radical right populist entrepreneurs and the use of religious representations through popular culture: George Becali as the 'Saviour of Romania'

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=98bENXBzqX" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=98bENXBzqX</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549420973205" target="_blank" >10.1177/1367549420973205</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Radical right populist entrepreneurs and the use of religious representations through popular culture: George Becali as the 'Saviour of Romania'

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

While there are a few significant studies on the varieties of populism in post-socialist Romania, little scholarly work on populists&apos; ethos of religious inspiration exists. This article addresses this lacuna from a cultural studies perspective, exploring popular culture&apos;s productions of religious inspiration employed by the radical right populist entrepreneur George Becali, and it argues that the diversity of religiously encumbered cultural productions provide a significant insight into fleshing out the mechanisms of his messianic neo-populism. By employing a critical visual analysis and hermeneutics, this article aims to illuminate how a populist entrepreneur attracts potential supporters by using the rhetoric of nativism and &apos;neo-traditional, autochthonous culture and religion&apos;, purporting to reveal a mutual cultural ground between the messianic leader and &apos;the people&apos;. His political strategies are oftentimes packaged in cultural formats and discourses emphasising local religious symbolism that turns him into a &apos;Saviour of the Nation&apos;. Yet, at the same time, the article demonstrates that popular culture can also constitute a foundation for resisting the populist&apos;s kit of religiously loaded visual rhetoric.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Radical right populist entrepreneurs and the use of religious representations through popular culture: George Becali as the 'Saviour of Romania'

Popis výsledku anglicky

While there are a few significant studies on the varieties of populism in post-socialist Romania, little scholarly work on populists&apos; ethos of religious inspiration exists. This article addresses this lacuna from a cultural studies perspective, exploring popular culture&apos;s productions of religious inspiration employed by the radical right populist entrepreneur George Becali, and it argues that the diversity of religiously encumbered cultural productions provide a significant insight into fleshing out the mechanisms of his messianic neo-populism. By employing a critical visual analysis and hermeneutics, this article aims to illuminate how a populist entrepreneur attracts potential supporters by using the rhetoric of nativism and &apos;neo-traditional, autochthonous culture and religion&apos;, purporting to reveal a mutual cultural ground between the messianic leader and &apos;the people&apos;. His political strategies are oftentimes packaged in cultural formats and discourses emphasising local religious symbolism that turns him into a &apos;Saviour of the Nation&apos;. Yet, at the same time, the article demonstrates that popular culture can also constitute a foundation for resisting the populist&apos;s kit of religiously loaded visual rhetoric.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

European Journal of Cultural Studies

ISSN

1367-5494

e-ISSN

1460-3551

Svazek periodika

25

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

43-60

Kód UT WoS článku

000599901100001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85097783058