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In this 2020 episode of the excellent podcast Social Science Bites - @socscispace - brilliant Sociolinguist, Professor Ruth Wodak, discusses the rise of far-right populism across Europe, & more importantly, what we might do about it.
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In this 2020 episode of the excellent podcast Social Science Bites - @socscispace - brilliant Sociolinguist, Professor Ruth Wodak, discusses the rise of far-right populism across Europe, & more importantly, what we might do about it.
socialsciencespace.com/2020/03/ruth-w…
Depending on your views, far-right populism can represent a welcome return to the past , or a worrying one. The former, Wodak argues, is one of the hallmarks of far-right populism – a yearning for an often mythical past where the “true people” were ascendant and comfortable.
Wodak terms this blurred look backward #retrotopia, “a nostalgia for a past where everything was much better,” whether it was ever real or not.
Wodak, who to be clear finds herself worrying and not welcoming, offers host David Edmonds a recipe for becoming a far-right populist.
Wodak, who to be clear finds herself worrying and not welcoming, offers host David Edmonds a recipe for becoming a far-right populist.
