Right-wing populist affective governing: a frame analysis of Austrian parliamentary debates on migration

IF 0.5 2区社会学 Q4 ETHNIC STUDIES

Patterns of Prejudice Pub Date : 2021-10-20 DOI:10.1080/0031322X.2021.2014089

Daniel Thiele, Birgit Sauer, Otto Penz

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ABSTRACT In the aftermath of the ‘summer of migration’ of 2015, right-wing populist discourses became increasingly commonplace. This article by Thiele, Sauer and Penz investigates the resurgence of nativist and anti-migration attitudes in Austria by focusing on parliamentary debates between 2015 and 2019 concerned with migration, asylum policies and integration measures. Their theoretical approach builds first on Cas Mudde’s conception of right-wing populism—which proceeds from the premise of corrupt ‘elites’ and threatening Others—and then combines it with theories on the politics of emotion and affects. By employing a critical affective frame analysis, the study examines how right-wing populist arguments by political actors are always intertwined with affects, like anger, fear and hope, in order to mobilize followers and voters. They regard these connections as governing strategy aiming at right-wing exclusion, a mode of governing through affects, which tends to change the affective atmosphere in Austria, that is, what is conceivable, speakable and feelable with regard to migration and refugees. As it turns out, not only the notorious Freedom Party (FPÖ) (with a longstanding far-right tradition) but also the refurbished People’s Party (ÖVP) under their new leader Sebastian Kurz, draw on discourses that are exclusionary as well as affective, encouraging the Austrian population rather to fear migrants and to feel anger, in order to mobilize them against threatening ‘migration waves’ and ‘illegal immigration’.

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右翼民粹主义情感治理：奥地利议会移民辩论的框架分析

摘要2015年“移民之夏”过后，右翼民粹主义话语变得越来越普遍。Thiele、Sauer和Penz的这篇文章通过关注2015年至2019年间关于移民、庇护政策和融合措施的议会辩论，调查了奥地利本土主义和反移民态度的死灰复燃。他们的理论方法首先建立在卡斯·穆德的右翼民粹主义概念之上——这一概念源于腐败的“精英”和威胁他人的前提——然后将其与情感和情感政治理论相结合。通过采用批判性情感框架分析，该研究考察了政治行为者的右翼民粹主义论点如何总是与愤怒、恐惧和希望等影响交织在一起，以动员追随者和选民。他们将这些联系视为旨在右翼排斥的治理策略，这是一种通过影响进行治理的模式，倾向于改变奥地利的情感氛围，即在移民和难民问题上可以想象、可以表达和感受的氛围。事实证明，不仅臭名昭著的自由党（FPÖ）（有着长期的极右翼传统），而且在其新领导人塞巴斯蒂安·库尔兹领导下的经过翻新的人民党（ÖVP），都利用了排斥性和情感性的话语，鼓励奥地利人民害怕移民和感到愤怒，以动员他们反对威胁性的“移民潮”和“非法移民”。

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期刊介绍： Patterns of Prejudice provides a forum for exploring the historical roots and contemporary varieties of social exclusion and the demonization or stigmatisation of the Other. It probes the language and construction of "race", nation, colour, and ethnicity, as well as the linkages between these categories. It encourages discussion of issues at the top of the public policy agenda, such as asylum, immigration, hate crimes and citizenship. As none of these issues are confined to any one region, Patterns of Prejudice maintains a global optic, at the same time as scrutinizing intensely the history and development of intolerance and chauvinism in the United States and Europe, both East and West.