CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Nijman, Wietske |
|---|---|
| Title | In Defence of Liberal Values? The Radical Right and Islam: The Austrian and Dutch Freedom Parties |
| Summary | Islam has become a highly politicized issue in Western Europe since 2000. Some authors have argued that in response a new xenophobic discourse was created. In a clash of civilizations, the West had to defend its liberal Enlightenment values against the illiberal Islam. This is said to apply to the radical right as well, which has become quite successful in the last decade. This thesis looks more critically at this claim. The anti-Islamic discourses of two radical right parties – the Dutch and Austrian Freedom Parties – are analysed using Critical Discourse Analysis to find out what argumentation is used. Defending liberal values is part of the discourse – more so for the PVV than for the FPÖ – yet this is thus not the full story. While the PVV now identifies liberal values as national values, the FPÖ still has a stronger conceptualization of identity focusing on more primordial ties. Next to this new discourse, the parties use to a large extent the same discourses as before: welfare chauvinism, increased criminality and new racism. |
| Supervisor | Pogonyi, Szabolcs; Joppke, Christian |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/nijman_wietske.pdf |
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