"Austria First' revisited: a diachronic cross-sectional analysis of the gender and body politics of the extreme right
2019 (English)In: Patterns of Prejudice, ISSN 0031-322X, E-ISSN 1461-7331, Vol. 53, no 3, p. 302-320Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
In this paper, Rheindorf and Wodak provide a discourse-historical analysis of extreme-right cultural politics in Austria, ranging from the blatant racism in the speeches of Vienna's former Deputy Mayor Johann Gudenus (now MP in the Austrian parliament) to the construction of an idealized national body in the election campaigns of the Freiheitliche Partei osterreichs (FPo), its programmatic agenda in handbooks and pamphlets, and the performances of far-right pop singer Andreas Gabalier. Rheindorf and Wodak argue that such cultural politics use a wide spectrum of discursive strategies both inside and outside established party politics and that the accompanying production of an ideal extreme-right subject is informed by nativist ideology. The cross-sectional analysis demonstrates that the cultural politics of the Austrian extreme right ranges from appropriated national symbols to coded National Socialist iconography. These politics pervasively construct a gendered and racialized national body, policed by a strict father' and nurtured by a self-sacrificing mother', vis-a-vis an apocalyptic threat scenario identified with migration, intellectual and political elites, cosmopolitanism and progressive gender politics.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2019. Vol. 53, no 3, p. 302-320
Keywords [en]
Andreas Gabalier, anthem, banal nationalism, body politics, Discourse Historical Approach, election campaign, extreme right, FPo, gender politics, Johann Gudenus
National Category
Humanities and the Arts
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-2017DOI: 10.1080/0031322X.2019.1595392ISI: 000472457700006PubMedID: 31391657Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85066837680Local ID: 30267OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-2017DiVA, id: diva2:1398759
2020-02-272020-02-272025-10-09Bibliographically approved