CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Glatz, Una Emilia |
|---|---|
| Title | Significant Othering: How the FP?? instrumentalizes Western Sexual Democracy to Vilify Muslim Immigrants in Austria |
| Summary | This thesis aims to explore the discursive strategies employed by the Austrian far-right party, the Freiheitliche Partei Österreich (FPÖ), in order to perpetuate their exclusionary rhetoric towards Muslim immigrants under the guise of modern gendered issues. Specifically, it asks How does the FPÖ employ Western sexual democratic discursive strategies, in their recent 2024 Austrian National Council election campaign, to construct Muslim immigrants as significant other? By utilizing interconnected concepts of both nationalism and gender studies the research aims to provide a more wholehearted approach to the analysis their rhetoric during their public presences leading up to the most recent National Council election. The primary sources, consisting of media interviews and publicly available parliamentary speeches by various party actors, were analyzed through the lens of Ruth Wodak’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). This discourse analysis revealed that the FPÖ has shifted their rhetorical strategies towards various forms of appropriated feminist and sexual democratic discourse in order to disguise their promotion of an ethnic conception of a homogenous Austrian identity. These discursive strategies range from instrumentalizing necropower and biopolitical tactics in complementary ways, in order to promote the Muslim immigrant as an inherent threat, therefore legitimizing their exclusionary policy proposals. |
| Supervisor | Pogonyi, Szabolcs |
| Department | Undergraduate Studies BA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/glatz_una.pdf |
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