Radical mobilization in times of crisis: Use and effects of appeals and populist communication features in Telegram channels

P Jost, L Dogruel - Social Media+ Society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Social crisis situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic provide a fertile ground for radical
actors and social movements to strengthen their radical mobilization—mainly using social …

Multiscalar strategies in right-wing populism: a comparison of West European parties in borderlands

C Biancalana, C Lamour, O Mazzoleni… - Territory, Politics …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper demonstrates the heuristic value of using a multiscalar perspective to analyse
right-wing populist discourse, especially in borderland regions. While it is commonly posited …

Viral bodies: racialised and gendered logics in the securitisation of migration during COVID-19 in Italy

A Pacciardi - Critical studies on security, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Since the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, migrants' mobility has been increasingly
securitised as governments have been adopting extraordinary measures to close both …

[HTML][HTML] From denial to domestication: Unpacking Italy's right-wing approach to climate migration and security

G Bettini, A Casaglia - Geoforum, 2024 - Elsevier
The rise to power of right-wing political formations in numerous countries opens new
questions on how they relate to the climate emergency. Now that outright climate denial has …

When COVID-19 circulates in right-wing populist discourse: the contribution of a global crisis to European meta-populism at the cross-border regional scale

C Lamour, P Carls - Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The success of European Right-Wing Populist (RWP) parties is related to a
context of crisis, offering the opportunity to mobilize antagonisms between the people, the …

Fostering bottom-up censorship from the top-down: Nationalism and media restrictions

N Anderson, A Commins… - … Journal of Press …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
From US President Donald Trump's Tweet labeling news media “the enemy of the people” to
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's establishment of a politically appointed Media …

Contesting the integration narrative: Shifting perceptions of EUrope

V Bachmann - European Urban and Regional Studies, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The European Union (EU) has long projected the vision of an integrating Europe, centred on
successful regional integration, as a better geopolitical model in comparison to 'others', such …

'Italians locked at home, illegal migrants free to disembark': How populist parties re-contextualized the anti-immigration discourse at the time of COVID-19 pandemic

D Lucchesi, V Romania - Discourse & Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
By drawing on a Critical Discourse Studies perspective, we analyze language and
discursive strategies used by 36 Italian populist right-wing politicians in constructing the …

Negotiating nationalism: Regional politics in Italy during the health crisis

R Coletti, A Filippetti - Territory, Politics, Governance, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Covid-19 has stimulated a revival of nationalism. Researchers and analysts have
investigated this revival from different perspectives, including its impact on …

[HTML][HTML] 'Battleship at the port of Europe': Italy's closed-port policy and its legitimizing narratives

S Aru - Political Geography, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract From March 2018 to August 2019, during Matteo Salvini's mandate as Minister of
the Interior, Italy implemented the so-called 'closed-port policy', the closure of Italy's ports to …