Jens Rydgren
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jens Rydgren plays a role.
Articles
2023 Discourses and practices of the ‘New Normal’: Towards an interdisciplinary research agenda on crisis and the normalization of anti- and post‑democratic action Journal of Language and Politics 22:4, pp. 415–437 | Article
This position paper argues for an interdisciplinary agenda relating crises to on-going processes of normalization of anti- and post-democratic action. We call for exploring theoretically and empirically the ‘new normal’ logic introduced into public imagination on the back of various crises,… read more
2017 Radical right-wing parties in Europe: What’s populism got to do with it? Right-Wing Populism in Europe & USA: Contesting Politics & Discourse beyond ‘Orbanism’ and ‘Trumpism’, Wodak, Ruth and Michał Krzyżanowski (eds.), pp. 485–496 | Article
In this paper I discuss, critically, the literature on populism and the extent to which it applies to the contemporary radical right-wing parties in Europe. These parties are often – and increasingly – referred to as populist parties. I argue that it is misleading to label these parties ‘populist… read more