Birgit Sauer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Birgit Sauer plays a role.
Articles
2024 Borderless fear? How right-wing populism aligns in affectively framing migration as a security threat in Austria and Slovenia Journal of Language and Politics 23:2, pp. 176–196 | Article
Studies have highlighted differences between right-wing populism in Western and Central Eastern Europe but suggested that discourses have been converging since the so-called “refugee crisis” in 2015. This article examines this claim by focusing on right-wing populist frames and affective… read more
2018 Constructing ‘the people’: An intersectional analysis of right-wing concepts of democracy and citizenship in Austria Democracy and Discriminatory Strategies in Parliamentary Discourse, Bischof, Karin and Cornelia Ilie (eds.), pp. 636–654 | Article
This article analyses right-wing populist constructions of ‘the people’ emerging at the intersections of ethnicized ‘othering’ and gendered differences within groups. We argue that these constructions are in stark contrast to the liberal notion of citizenship, which we understand to be the basis… read more