Reimagining the Medieval: The Utility of Ethnonational Symbols for Reactionary Transnational Social Movements

Godwin, Matthew; Trischler, Elisabeth

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“…Other scholars focus specifically on national nostalgia (Kenny, 2017; Smeekes et al., 2021), which is important in its own right, but is too narrow to serve as a category for all forms of politically significant, collective nostalgia. Rather, nostalgia can look to regional as well as supranational heartlands (Goodwin & Trischler, 2021). Nostalgia's temporal and spatial reference entities are never static or a priori: both the golden age and the contours of the heartland emerge from collective, open‐ended struggles over meaning.…”

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The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness

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Klein

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British Journal of Sociology

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This article untangles competing conceptualisations of nostalgia and identifies a specific form of collective‐restorative nostalgia as politically significant. We argue that the link between resentment and this type of nostalgia emerges from their joint critique of the socio‐political realities of the present. Nostalgia provides spatial and temporal orientations for a group's experiences of resentment through highly selective recollections of the heartland and an idealised golden age. We hypothesize that nostalgia leverages the heartland and the golden age to formulate claims for recognition and restored status on behalf of those who feel left behind by late modernity. Next, the article uses structural equation modelling and the 2019 Belgian National Election Study to reveal how resentment (consisting of ontological insecurity, group relative deprivation, and powerlessness) mediates between structural characteristics and nostalgia. Our findings suggest that each component of resentment individually contributes to explaining the nostalgia of less educated and economically deprived individuals.

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Section: Variants Of Nostalgia In Contemporary Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness

Rogenhofer

Abts

Klein

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British Journal of Sociology

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Islamist and Nativist Reactionary Radicalisation in Europe

Kaya

2021

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In this article, the term “radicalisation” is discussed as a process that appears to be a defensive and reactionary response of various individuals suffering from social, economic, and political forms of exclusion, subordination, alienation, humiliation, and isolation. To that effect, the article challenges the mainstream understanding of radicalisation. In doing so, the work concentrates on the elaboration of reactionary radicalisation processes of self-identified Muslim youth and self-identified native youth residing in Europe. The main reason behind the selection of these two groups is the assumption that both groups are co-radicalizing each other in the contemporary world that is defined by the ascendance of a civilizational political discourse since the war in the Balkans in the 1990s. Based on the findings of in-depth interviews conducted with youngsters from both groups in Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, the work demonstrates that the main drivers of the radicalisation processes of these two groups cannot be explicated through the reproduction of civilizational, cultural, and religious differences. Instead, the drivers of radicalisation for both groups are very identical as they are both socio-economically, politically, and psychologically deprived of certain elements constrained by the flows of globalization and dominant forms of neo-liberal governance.

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Post-Truth Politics, Digital Media, and the Politicization of the Global Compact for Migration

Conrad

2021

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The debate over the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) in late 2018 showcases the crucial role of digital and, in particular, social media as vehicles of disinformation that populist actors can exploit in an effort to create resentment and fear in the public sphere. While mainstream political actors and legacy media initially did not address the issue, right-wing populist actors claimed ownership by framing (presumably <em>obligatory</em>) mass immigration as a matter of social, cultural, economic, and not least political risk, and created an image of political and cultural elites conspiring to keep the issue out of the public sphere. Initially advanced via digital and social media, such frames resonated sufficiently strongly in civil society to politicize the GCM in various national public spheres. In this article, these dynamics are explored by comparing the politicization of the GCM in three EU member states, namely Germany, Austria, and Sweden. Using a process-tracing design, the article (a) identifies the key actors in the process, (b) analyzes how the issue emerged in social and other digital media and travelled from digital media into mainstream mass media discourse, and finally (c) draws comparative conclusions from the three analyzed cases. Particular emphasis is placed on the frames used by right-wing populist actors, how these frames resonated in the wider public sphere and thereby generated communicative power against the GCM, ultimately forcing the issue onto the agenda of national public spheres and political institutions.

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Reimagining the Medieval: The Utility of Ethnonational Symbols for Reactionary Transnational Social Movements

Cited by 5 publications

References 33 publications

The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness

The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness

Islamist and Nativist Reactionary Radicalisation in Europe

Post-Truth Politics, Digital Media, and the Politicization of the Global Compact for Migration

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