Dear discourse researchers,
This is a brief reminder that, up until tomorrow, 28 February, 2025, you may still submit paper proposals to the panel 'Normalising imaginaries of the radical right?', which will take place at the 6th DiscourseNet Congress in Brussels, July 7-10, 2025.
You can also send a note to kutter@europa-uni.de if you would like your previously submitted single paper proposal to be included in this panel.
We look forward to your proposals,
Best regards,
Amelie (Kutter)
Details on the panel and on submission.
‘Normalising imaginaries of the radical right? The case of gender, migration and climate. Contributions to the Crisis Discourse Blog.’
Panel at the 6th DiscourseNet Congress (DNC6), Université libre de Bruxelles (Solbosch), 7-10 July, 2025
Deadline for paper proposals: 28 February 2025
In many contemporary liberal democracies, radical right-wing forces have moved into the centre of political power. This development has been facilitated, it seems, by a 'normalisation' of radical right discourses: they have become the common and taken-for-granted repertoire of many political milieus and political parties. This is particularly true of the de-legitimisation of gender equality and diversity, the securitisation of migrants, the stigmatisation of welfare recipients and the de-legitimisation of environmental advocacy. This panel seeks to better understand what makes these discourses pervasive. The contributions to the panel examine the social imaginaries, i.e. the pre-reflective alluded meanings that make these discourses seem convincing, such as heteronormative conceptions of the family, nested territorial citizenship, meritocracy, or nature as an extra-human resource. Drawing on specific discourse approaches, the contributions disentangle the discourse configurations or the small-scale communicative and discursive strategies that normalise these imaginaries. Contributions will highlight the normalising discourse practices of centrist political forces in particular. They will later be published as blog posts on the Crisis Discourse Blog (CriDis), after a collaborative peer review. The blog posts may recycle material from previously published works or preview ongoing research, and may later be turned into academic journal articles.
- Proposals: Please formulate abstract of 250 words (excluding title and bibliography), in English or German. The abstract should relate to specific social imaginary and case (gender, migration, climate) of mainstreamed right-wing discourse and apply a specific discourse approach. Please do indicate the name of the panel ‘Normalising imaginaries of the radical right?’ and which CriDis rubric you will use. For details on CriDis rubrics and editorial guidelines see: https://www.crisis-discourse.net/for-authors/
- Submission of paper proposals up until: February 28th 2025
- Where to: https://resic1.limesurvey.net/274575
- Details on 6th DiscourseNet Congress can be found here: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/dnc6-6th-discoursenet-congress-discourse-and-imaginaries-past-present-and-future-societies-media?language=en
- In case you cannot be present at the DNC6, you may send your proposal to info@crisis-discourse.net. We will strive to include them in follow-up workshops and peer-review processes.