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Catarina Kinnvall, svartvitt foto.

Catarina Kinnvall

Professor

Catarina Kinnvall, svartvitt foto.

Populism, ontological insecurity and gendered nationalism: Masculinity, climate denial and Covid-19

Författare

  • Christine Agius
  • Annika Bergman Rosamond
  • Catarina Kinnvall

Summary, in English

This article proceeds from a critical analysis of gendered narratives of nationhood as manifested in far-right populist politics and discourses in response to major security challenges. We focus on how such narratives exemplify gendered nationalism and inform the discourses of populist political leaders and their followers, with a particular focus on the USA and the UK. We proceed from an engagement with the ontological security literature to show how masculine imaginations and fantasies of fear, hate and anger—‘toxic masculinity’—are in fact gendered responses to ontological insecurity across two major cases of insecurity: climate change and the global coronavirus pandemic. The global coronavirus pandemic and climate denialism have gendered dimensions in populist, masculine discourses, as exemplified in the response to the climate activist Greta Thunberg and to the rejection of experts and lockdown measures in the case of Covid-19. A key contention is that the reinvention of ‘nationhood’, along gendered lines, has created a foundation for governing practices in which hegemonic discourses turn into normalizing narratives that justify masculinist responses to ontological insecurity.

Avdelning/ar

  • Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

Publiceringsår

2021

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

432-450

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Politics, Religion and Ideology

Volym

21

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Political Science

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2156-7689