Intersectional Perspectives on the Extreme Right Metapolitical Project in Sweden

Beskrivning

In this lecture, I present the main parameters of my recently started project (E-META), which aims to examine how actors of the Swedish extreme right environment (think tanks, parties, vigilante organizations, individuals) engage in a coordinated effort to construct an alternative worldview, better known as the extreme right metapolitical project. The point of departure lies in acknowledging the importance of digital technologies for the extreme right's success, oftentimes manifested as misogyny, homophobia, racism, and antidemocratic violence. The project’s aim is to maps out the digital interaction between a) the metapolitical project’s intellectual sources, b) the propagating channels, and c) the project’s digital resonance with individuals (likes, comments). I do this by means of an innovative intersectional methodological apparatus, aware of the interplay between gender, sexuality, race, and class, suitable for rich sociopolitical contextualization and ethnographic research concerning digital environments. This enables the triangulation of the analyzed digital material: they are first anchored into the broader sociopolitical and historical context, and then placed within the specific contextual situation they were created.

Period	2021 nov. 17
Vid	Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgien
Omfattning	Internationell