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Ruth Wodak in conversation with Jutta Bichl

„US“ VERSUS „THEM“
Discourses on right-wing populist gender politics

Gender politics has been central to right-wing populist mobilisation strategies for several years, always in connection with a polarisation between the so-called „real people“ and the „others“. The complex relationship between right-wing populism and gender politics is also playing an increasingly important role in international research. It is becoming apparent that right-wing populist parties instrumentalise gender issues as an essential component of symbolic politics in order to promote their different, often nativist agenda. Ruth Wodak and Jutta Bichl use examples from Austria and Germany to discuss what these strategies look like, what means right-wing populist parties use for this and what positions can be found on gender issues.

Jutta Bichl, Studied Transcultural Communication and Political Science at the University of Vienna, final thesis on „We against them: How Gender Issues serve the Construction of Populist Radical Right Antagonisms“

Ruth Wodak, Linguist and Emeritus Distinguished Professor for Discourse Studies at Lancaster University (UK) and still affiliated with the University of Vienna, where she was appointed Full Professor of Applied Linguistics in 1991. In 2020, she was made an Honorary Senator of the University of Vienna. In addition to many other honours, she was the first woman and social scientist to receive the Wittgenstein Prize in 1996. She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Örebro (Sweden, 2010) and Warwick (UK, 2020). She is a member of the Academia Europaea and the British Academy of Social Sciences. Reviewed book publication: Politics with fear. The shameless normalisation of right-wing populist and far-right discourse (2020, Konturen Verlag).

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