'You're Fired!' Retrotopian Desire and Right-Wing Class Politics

Schleusener, Simon

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“…They present masculinity as a shield against "foreign" identities and ideologies that are either over-or undermasculinized to cast them as outsiders to nation and nationality (Bracke 2012;Nagel 1998). Based on nostalgic and idealized versions of national history (Schleusener 2020), a desired gender order is culturally and ethnically demarcated (Baiocchi 2020;Sauer 2020), and hegemonic masculinity follows from the construction of the nation as a (White) male-dominated space with clear gender norms (Ralph-Morrow 2022). In this context, masculinity takes on meaning relationally to ethnicity and race.…”

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Masculinity and Sexuality in Populist Radical Right Leadership

2022

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Research shows that masculinity and sexuality are pivotal to the leadership and success of the populist radical right (PRR). In particular, normative conceptions of masculinity, as seen in gendered nationalism, have been argued to be important to the appeal of PRR parties. However, the supply side of this dynamic remains understudied. To fill this gap, this article uses critical discourse analysis to analyze the role of masculinity and sexuality in the self-positioning and envisioned hegemonies of the most successful Dutch PRR leaders: Pim Fortuyn, Geert Wilders, and Thierry Baudet. The Dutch case is particularly insightful as it presents a diverse array of PRR parties in one country context. We found crucial similarities and differences between the discourses of these leaders. Our findings suggest that masculinity and sexuality, while constitutive at the party level, are largely negotiable or nondefining for the larger party family. These findings problematize often-made identifications of PRR politics with a one-of-a-kind conservative ideology of gender and sexuality.

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