Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Nostalgia and Hope: Narrative Master Frames Across Contemporary Europe

   • Anders Hellström, Ov Cristian Norocel, Martin Bak Jørgensen

   Pages 1-16

3. Right-Wing Populist Party Politics Across Europe

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Trouble in the Homeland: How Cultural Identity and Welfare Politics Merge in Contemporary Danish and Swedish Politics

      • Anders Hellström, Mahama Tawat

      Pages 19-34

   3. The Discursive Denial of Racism by Finnish Populist Radical Right Politicians Accused of Anti-Muslim Hate-Speech

      • Katarina Pettersson

      Pages 35-50

   4. Nostalgic Nationalism, Welfare Chauvinism, and Migration Anxieties in Central and Eastern Europe

      • Radu Cinpoeş, Ov Cristian Norocel

      Pages 51-65

   5. What Makes Turkey and Turkish Immigrants a Cultural Polarization Issue in Europe? Evidence from European Right-Wing Populist Politics

      • Gokay Özerim, Selcen Öner

      Pages 67-81

4. Retrogressive Mobilizations Outside the Political Arena

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. The Trans-European Mobilization of “Generation Identity”

      • Anita Nissen

      Pages 85-100

   3. Endangered Swedish Values: Immigration, Gender Equality, and “Migrants’ Sexual Violence”

      • Emil Edenborg

      Pages 101-117

   4. Invented Nostalgia: The Search for Identity Among the Hungarian Far-Right

      • Katherine Kondor, Mark Littler

      Pages 119-134

   5. “Retrotopia” as a Retrogressive Force in the German PEGIDA-Movement

      • Andreas Önnerfors

      Pages 135-149

5. Emancipatory Initiatives Mobilizing Beyond Politics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. Challenging Misconceptions: Danish Civil Society in Times of Crisis

      • Martin Bak Jørgensen, Daniel Rosengren Olsen

      Pages 153-167

   3. “Impossible” Activism and the Right to Be Understood: The Emergent Refugee Rights Movement in Finland

      • Camilla Haavisto

      Pages 169-184

   4. Hope as Master Frame in Feminist Mobilization: Between Liberal NGO-ization and Radical-Intersectional Street Politics

      • Alexandra Ana

      Pages 185-202

   5. Latin American Transnational Political Engagement: Steering Civic Movements and Cultural Repertoires from the Global City of Brussels

      • Larisa Lara-Guerrero, María Vivas-Romero

      Pages 203-217

6. Epilogue

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219

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   2. Civil Society Between Populism and Anti-populism

      • Carlo Ruzza

      Pages 221-235

This open access book shows how the politics of migration affect community building in the 21st century, drawing on both retrogressive and progressive forms of mobilization. It elaborates theoretically and shows empirically how the two master frames of nostalgia and hope are used in local, national and transnational settings, in and outside conventional forms of doing politics. It expands on polarized societal processes and external events relevant for the transformation of European welfare systems and the reproduction of national identities today. It evidences the importance of gender in the narrative use of the master frames of nostalgia and hope, either as an ideological tool for right-wing populist and extreme right retrogressive mobilization or as an essential element of progressive intersectional politics of hope. It uses both comparative and single case studies to address different perspectives, and by means of various methodological approaches, the manner in which the master frames of nostalgia and hope are articulated in the politics of culture, welfare, and migration. The book is organized around three thematic sections whereby the first section deals with right-wing populist party politics across Europe, the second section deals with an articulation of politics beyond party politics by means of retrogressive mobilization, and the third and last section deals with emancipatory initiatives beyond party politics as well.

• Open access
• Migration and integration
• Populism and radical right parties
• Welfare and culture
• Nexus of welfare, economy, and culture
• Welfare and national identity
• Diversity
• Social movements
• Party politics
• Homeland and identity
• Immigration
• (In)equality
• Politics of migration
• Welfare politics
• National identity
• Politics of intersectional hope

• Institut de Sociologie Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

  Ov Cristian Norocel

• Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

  Ov Cristian Norocel

• Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden

  Anders Hellström

• Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

  Martin Bak Jørgensen

Ov Cristian NOROCEL (Lund University, Sweden & Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) (Dr.Soc.Sci. Political Science) is Associate Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender Studies (Sweden), and previously Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the Institute of Sociology (Belgium). His research is centered in the fields of intersectional analyses of political radicalism and extremism, and nationalism and citizenship issues across Europe. He has published in such international journals as Critical Social Policy, European Journal of Women’s Studies, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, International Journal of Communication, NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Studies, NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, and Problems of Post-Communism.

Anders HELLSTRÖM (Malmö University, Sweden) (Ph.D. Political Science) is Senior Lecturer in the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM). Research interests: identity politics, European integration, discourse theory, political philosophy, populism, nationalism, European nationalism, national self-images, politics of multi-culturalism, border-making processes. He is currently involved in the research project: Struggles of the people: neo-nationalism in Scandinavia.

Martin BAK JØRGENSEN (Aalborg University, Denmark) (Ph.D. Migration Studies) is Associate Professor affiliated with the research group DEMOS, Democracy, Migration and Movements. His research encompasses the fields of sociology, political sociology, and political science. Topics of focus include welfare, discrimination and inequality, migration, social movements, and new mobilizations against fiscal austerity across Scandinavia as well as in Germany and Spain. His most recent publication is co-written with Ó.G. AGUSTÍN: Solidarity and the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Europe (2019, Palgrave McMillan).