A ‘New’ National Front? Gender, Religion, Secularism and the French Populist Radical Right

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Göçmenliğe Dair Dönüşen Temsiller ve Temsilin Politikası: ‘’Almanya Acı Vatan’’ ve ‘’Duvara Karşı’’ Filmlerinin Karşılaştırmalı Analizi

“…Bu araştırmacılar, bir yandan aslında toplumsal cinsiyet eşitliğine inanmayan, kadınları "ulusun üremesinin aracı" olarak gören bu partilerin, diğer yandan Müslüman göçmen topluluklarını homojenize eden, Müslüman göçmen kadını kurbanlaştırılmış gösteren bir söylemi üreterek kendilerini siyasetin anaakımına taşıdıklarını öne sürmektedirler. (Fekete, 2006;Mudde, 2007;Klammer ve Goetz, 2017;Scrinzi, 2017;Trabert, 2017). Dolayısıyla, toplumsal cinsiyet kimlikleri ve ilişkileri göçe ilişkin popüler söylemlerde ve anlatılarda giderek daha merkezi bir konuma oturmuştur.…”

Gender and women in the Front National discourse and policy: from 'mothers of the nation' to 'working mothers'?

“…One major development in the gendered discourse of the PRR in recent years has been the 'racialisation of sexism' 18 . While overall the emphasis on the traditional family and the gendered division of work seems to have decreased in the West European PRR party family, issues of gender and sexuality have become more salient when it comes to debating immigration, integration and multiculturalism 19 .…”

Is Right-wing Populism a Phenomenon of Religious Dissent? The Cases of the Lega and the Rassemblement National

“…The appropriation of religion by right-wing populist parties varies in different national contexts. The state-religion arrangements, the prevailing idea of nationalism in a given country, and the ideological roots of the various populist movements influence the populist religiosity (Scrinzi 2017) that ranges from 'Christianist secularism', where a republican idea of citizenship prevails, to civilizational discourses, to political claims deeply imbued of devotional religiosity (Haynes 2019;Ozzano 2019;Arato and Cohen 2017;Brubaker 2017;Marzouki and McDonnell 2016). However, the public display of religious tropes by populist leaders to sustain their political agenda have created strains with religious authorities, particularly with the Vatican: Pope Francis, for example, has expressed strong condemnation of the forms of sovereignism of populism.…”

“…A promising perspective that allows highlighting the religious side of populism, and particularly the phenomena of religious dissent it can be linked to, is provided by gender and sexuality, which offer the most challenging dimensions in a consideration of the contemporary relevance of religion. (Vaggione 2005, 233) and the object of an ongoing revision of the political platforms of several rightwing populist parties (Brubaker 2017;Scrinzi 2017; De Lange and Mugge 2015). Right-wing populism has traditionally rejected gender diversity policies (Verloo 2018).…”