IMISCOE Research Series / Nostalgia and Hope: Intersections between Politics of Culture, Welfare, and Migration in Europe

Chapter 1 Nostalgia and Hope: Narrative Master Frames across Contemporary Europe: Anders Hellström, Ov Cristian Norocel, and Martin Bak Jørgensen.- Section I Right-Wing Populist Party Politics Across Europe: Chapter 2 Trouble in the Homeland: How Cultural Identity and Welfare Politics Merge in Contemporary Danish and Swedish Politics: Anders Hellström and Mahama Tawat.- Chapter 3 The Discursive Denial of Racism by Finnish Populist Radical Right Politicians Accused of Anti-Muslim Hate-Speech: Katarina Pettersson.- Chapter 4 Nostalgic Nationalism, Welfare Chauvinism, and Migration Anxieties in Central and Eastern Europe: Radu Cinpoes and Ov Cristian Norocel.- Chapter 5 What Makes Turkey and Turkish Immigrants a Cultural Polarization Issue in Europe? Evidence from European Right-wing Populist Politics: Gokay Özerim and Selcen Öner.- Section II Retrogressive Mobilizations Outside The Political Arena: Chapter 6 The Trans-European Mobilization of "Generation Identity": Anita Nissen.- Chapter 7 Endangered Swedish Values: Immigration, Gender Equality, and "Migrants' Sexual Violence": Emil Edenborg.- Chapter 8 Invented Nostalgia: The Search for Identity among the Hungarian Far-right: Katherine Kondor and Mark Littler.- Chapter 9 "Retrotopia" as a Retrogressive Force in the German PEGIDA-movement" Andreas Önnerfors.- Section III Emancipatory Initiatives Mobilizing Beyond Politics: Chapter 10 Challenging Misconceptions: Danish Civil Society in Times of Crisis: Martin Bak Jørgensen and Daniel Rosengren Olsen.- Chapter 11 "Impossible" Activism and the Right to be Understood: The Emergent Refugee Rights Movement in Finland: Camilla Haavisto.- Chapter 12 Hope as Master Frame in Feminist Mobilization: Between Liberal NGO-ization and Radical-Intersectional Street Politics: Alexandra Ana.- Chapter 13 Latin American Transnational Political Engagement: Steering Civic Movements and Cultural Repertoires from the Global City of Brussels: Larisa Lara-Guerrero and María Vivas-Romero.-

Ov Cristian NOROCEL (Lund University, Sweden & Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) (Dr.Soc.Sci. Political Science) is Associate Senior Lecturer in the Department of Gender Studies (Sweden), and previously Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow in the Institute of Sociology (Belgium). His research is centered in the fields of intersectional analyses of political radicalism and extremism, and nationalism and citizenship issues across Europe. He has published in such international journals as Critical Social Policy, European Journal of Women's Studies, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, International Journal of Communication, NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Studies, NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, and Problems of Post-Communism.

Anders HELLSTRÖM (Malmö University, Sweden) (Ph.D. Political Science) is Senior Lecturer in the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM). Research interests: identity politics, European integration, discourse theory, political philosophy, populism, nationalism, European nationalism, national self-images, politics of multi-culturalism, border-making processes. He is currently involved in the research project: Struggles of the people: neo-nationalism in Scandinavia.



Martin BAK JØRGENSEN (Aalborg University, Denmark) (Ph.D. Migration Studies) is Associate Professor affiliated with the research group DEMOS, Democracy, Migration and Movements. His research encompasses the fields of sociology, political sociology, and political science. Topics of focus include welfare, discrimination and inequality, migration, social movements, and new mobilizations against fiscal austerity across Scandinavia as well as in Germany and Spain. His most recent publication is co-written with Ó.G. AGUSTÍN: Solidarity and the 'Refugee Crisis' in Europe (2019, Palgrave McMillan).