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dc.contributor.authorLähdesmäki, Tuuli
dc.contributor.editorDe Cesari, Chiara
dc.contributor.editorKaya, Ayhan
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-11T07:49:49Z
dc.date.available2019-11-11T07:49:49Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationLähdesmäki, T. (2020). European Culture, History, and Heritage as Political Tools in the Rhetoric of the Finns Party. In C. De Cesari, & A. Kaya (Eds.), <i>European Memory in Populism : Representations of Self and Other</i>. Routledge. <a href="https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429454813-10" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429454813-10</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_33474624
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/66294
dc.description.abstractVarious studies have indicated how notions and (mis)interpretations of national history, heritage, and culture are utilized by diverse populist and extremist political parties in Europe. However, scholars have less explored how the idea of a common European history, heritage, and culture are used by these parties to justify their xenophobic, anti-immigration, anti-globalization, and monoculturalist political attitudes and the defense of ‘us’. This chapter focuses on this question by examining the political rhetoric of the Finns Party, the core populist party in Finland. The data consists of selected texts discussing broadly the topics of the EU, Europe, nation, identity, and/or culture, published in the party newspaper between 2004 and 2017. The data is examined using critical discourse analysis by focusing on the notions and interpretations of a common European history, heritage, and culture as political tools in the party rhetoric. The analysis brings out how the texts in the party newspaper picture Europe as a cultural and value-based community sharing a common Christian heritage, traditions, and moral norms, particularly when a threat towards ‘us’ is experienced as coming from outside Europe’s imagined geographical or cultural borders. The notions and interpretations of a common European history, heritage, and culture form a powerful tool of exclusion when they are perceived as a sphere of meanings that cannot be identified with without having generational or ethnic ties to it. Appeals to a common European history, heritage, and culture function as rhetorical mechanisms through which others can be discussed with a vocabulary that veils the prejudiced or discriminative connotations.en
dc.format.extent202
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageeng
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean Memory in Populism : Representations of Self and Other
dc.rightsIn Copyright
dc.subject.otherPerussuomalaiset
dc.subject.otherEurooppa
dc.subject.otherTrue Finns
dc.subject.otherpolitical tools
dc.subject.otherEurope
dc.titleEuropean Culture, History, and Heritage as Political Tools in the Rhetoric of the Finns Party
dc.typebookPart
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-201911114808
dc.contributor.laitosMusiikin, taiteen ja kulttuurin tutkimuksen laitosfi
dc.contributor.laitosDepartment of Music, Art and Culture Studiesen
dc.contributor.oppiaineTaidehistoriafi
dc.contributor.oppiaineArt Historyen
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dc.relation.isbn978-1-138-31811-3
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.type.versionacceptedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© 2019 Routledge
dc.rights.accesslevelopenAccessfi
dc.relation.grantnumber274295
dc.subject.ysopopulismi
dc.subject.ysokulttuuri
dc.subject.ysokulttuurihistoria
dc.subject.ysokulttuuriperintö
dc.subject.ysopolitiikka
dc.subject.ysoretoriikka
dc.subject.ysohistoria
dc.subject.ysopuolueet
dc.format.contentfulltext
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jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p8958
dc.rights.urlhttp://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en
dc.relation.doi10.4324/9780429454813-10
dc.relation.funderResearch Council of Finlanden
dc.relation.funderSuomen Akatemiafi
jyx.fundingprogramAcademy Research Fellow, AoFen
jyx.fundingprogramAkatemiatutkija, SAfi
jyx.fundinginformationThis work was supported by the Academy of Finland under Grant SA274295 (EUCHE)and Grant SA257130 (POPULISM).
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