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Project

Contemporary racism and the extreme right. A comparative analysis of the discourses of the Austrian Freedom Party, the Lega Nord and Alleanza Nazionale

Acronym _/ Project ID: 43
Start date 15/11/1998
End date 16/11/2000 Completed
Description

This project analysed recent (election) campaigns on the issue of immigration and ethnicity by three radical populist parties, namely, the Austrian Freedom Party (Haider), the Italian Northern League and the Italian National Alliance. Data analysed include parliamentary and local city council debates, political speeches, party (election) campaign materials and publications, and television debates. Focus on the role of these parties' discourses in the construction of collective identity and in the manifestation of racism.

Output

Publications in 1999 and 2000 (see Jessika ter Wal publications)

Project staff

Jessika ter Wal, Research Fellow

Partners Prof. Ruth Wodak, University of Vienna, Research Centre 'Discourse, Politics, Identity'
Project funding organisation(s) EU-Fourth framework programme for Training and Mobility of Researchers, individual Marie Curie fellowship
Source JWA
Source update 19/02/2001
June 18, 2001

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