Mobilising gender equality and protectionism in Finnish parliamentary sessions and online discussions around immigration: an intersectional and critical discursive psychological analysis

Satu Venäläinen*, Rusten Menard

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Our chapter presents an analysis of anti-immigration, nationalist meaning-making in two different contexts in Finland, online discussions and parliamentary sessions. We approach this meaning-making from a theoretical and methodological framework based on critical discursive psychology and an intersectional viewpoint and specifically utilise the concepts interpretative repertoires and subject positions. We illustrate how two interpretative repertoires we interpreted from both datasets, a repertoire of gender equality as Finnishness and a repertoire of protectionism, are drawn upon in the research materials in ways that enact various exclusions along intersecting lines of gender, nationality, political orientation and race. These exclusions work together with positioning in distinguishing those who can claim ownership of definitions and practices around gender equality from those whose ownership of these is denied.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Far-Right Discourse of Multiculturalism in Intergroup Interactions
Subtitle of host publicationA Critical Discursive Perspective
EditorsKatarina Pettersson, Emma Nortio
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Pages25-49
Number of pages25
ISBN (Electronic)9783030890667
ISBN (Print)9783030890650, 9783030890681
Publication statusPublished - 4 Mar 2022

Publication series

NamePalgrave Studies in Discursive Psychology
ISSN (Print)2946-4978
ISSN (Electronic)2946-4986

Keywords

  • critical discursive psychology
  • gender equality
  • interpretative repertoires
  • intersectionality
  • subject positions

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