Banana Populism: Exploring the Emotionally Engaging, Authentic, and Memeable Rhetoric of Populist Visual Communication

Z Szebeni, I Hartikainen… - Social Media+ …, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
This study conceptualizes “banana populism,” a novel analytical framework to examine how
whimsical imagery functions in in contemporary populism. Banana populism utilizes the …

[PDF][PDF] Blurring Histories: King Svätopluk I and the Shaping of Slovak Identity through Pseudohistory and Slow Memory.

I Hartikainen, J SYROVÁTKA… - Slovak Ethnology …, 2024 - helda.helsinki.fi
This study examines how fabricated historical narratives and slow memory processes can
shape nation-building efforts. We propose an expansion of Wüstenberg's (2023) slow …