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Ajan suunnan juutalaiskuva 1932-1944
2014
Tutkimuksen tavoite on avata Isänmaallisen kansanliikkeen pää-äänenkannattajan, Ajan Suunnan, lukijoilleen välittämää juutalaiskuvaa selvittämällä minkä verran ja millaisia juutalaisia käsitteleviä kirjoituksia lehdessä ilmestyi. Ajan Suunta aloitti ilmestymisensä neljällä näytenumerolla vuoden 1932 joulukuun alusta. Se jatkoi ilmestymistä kuusi kertaa viikossa ilmestyvänä iltapäivälehtenä vuoden 1937 joulukuuhun saakka, jolloin siitä tuli päivittäin ilmestyvä aamulehti. Lehti lopetti toimintansa vuoden 1939 lopussa, jatkaen ilmestymistään heinäkuun puolenvälin jälkeen vuonna 1940. Vuoden loppuun saakka lehti ilmestyi kaksi kertaa viikossa. Seuraavan vuoden alusta Ajan Suunta ilmestyi kuute…
Performing ‘us’ and ‘other’ : Intersectional analyses of right-wing populist media
2020
Finland and Sweden share the ideal of a Nordic welfare state, with gender equality as a central tenet. In both countries, right-wing populist parties have gained prominence in mainstream politics. Despite similar political agendas at the moment, these parties have different political histories, and different modes of expressing their anti-immigration pleas. In this comparative study, we examine how the distinction between ‘us’ and the ‘other’ is performed intersectionally in terms of gender, social class, ethnicity and ‘race’, and sexuality. For this purpose, we examine empirical material collected from the party newspapers of the Finns Party and the Sweden Democrats, because their content…
The role of social media in the rise of right-wing populism in Finland
2021
Right-wing populism is typically entangled with xenophobic nationalism and neo-conservatism, which often usher in racism and misogyny. In this chapter, the authors take Finland as a case study to examine the role of media technology in the rise of right-wing populism. They demonstrate the strengthening of the far-right ideology on and through social media from the beginning of 2010s. It focuses on the mediated construction of two entangled ideologies in the right-wing populist movement racism and misogyny. In early spring 2020, the debate about Turkey opening its EU border to refugees made Jussi Halla-aho eagerly participate in this discussion in the parliament and on Twitter now as the cha…
A Russian Radical Conservative Challenge to the Liberal Global Order : Aleksandr Dugin
2019
The chapter examines Russian political theorist Aleksandr Dugin’s (b. 1962) challenge to the Western liberal order. Even though Dugin’s project is in many ways a theoretical epitome of Russia’s contemporary attempt to profile itself as a regional great power with a political and cultural identity distinct from the liberal West, Dugin can also be read in a wider context as one of the currently most prominent representatives of the culturally and intellectually oriented international New Right. The chapter introduces Dugin’s role on the Russian right-wing political scene and his international networks, Russian neo-Eurasianism as his ideological footing, and his more recent “fourth political t…
Discursive Constructions of White Nordic Masculinities in Right-wing Populist Media
2018
Using superordinate intersectionality as a theoretical framework, this article explores notions of men and masculinities within right wing populism. It is attentive to how the right-wing populist media in Finland and Sweden construct white Nordic masculinities through discursive interactions across several axes of difference: gender (masculinities); sexuality (heterosexuality); social class (elites); and race (whitenesses). Employing Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as methodological approach, we show how the discursive constructions of white Nordic masculinities are context contingent, rendering them subject to constant reinterpretation and repositioning, at times privileging some axes of…
Terminological Games: The Finnish Security Police Monitoring the Far-Right Movements in Finland During the Cold War
2020
This article focuses on the use of terms and concepts related to the nationalist movements by the Finnish security police during the Cold War. The key objective of the security police was to protect the legal order of the state and monitor the groups and phenomena potentially harmful to that cause. The previous experience regarding the rise of the radical nationalism and fascism in Finland in the 1930s and the 1947 Paris peace treaties were the historical and legal contexts within which the interpretations were made. As the article shows, interpretation made by the security police, however, relied occasionally on a limited understanding about the evolving far-right scene, thus producing ter…
Päämäärät liikkeessä : puolueohjelmien kirjoittamisen muuttuvat merkitykset Suomessa 1950-luvulta 1990-luvulle
1998
Proscribing the Nordic Resistance Movement in Finland: Analyzing the Process and its Outcome
2021
The Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) was banned in Finland in 2020 after a court process lasting more than two and half years. This article details how effective the ban has been and how the organization has adapted to the ban, both during the process and after the verdict. The NRM has followed strategies similar to previous proscription cases, especially National Action in the UK in 2016, with whom NRM members discussed and shared experiences before the banning process began. Adaptation has meant new organizational forms and the founding of new associations. Before the ban, some commentators argued that it would only radicalize NRM members and that they might move to clandestine actions. B…
Window to Europe : Finland and Nordic Fascist Networks during the Cold War
2022
For Finnish fascist groups and organisations, which were officially banned by the 1948 Paris Peace Treaty, Nordic contacts and networks provided an opportunity to maintain contact with their ideological comrades, if only in a clandestine manner, and open a window to Europe. For their Nordic comrades, Finland was a land glorified not only for its battles against the Soviet Union, but also a buffer state against the threat of communism. Contacts with the Finns were, in most cases, unofficial and often denied when revealed in the newspapers or by the police. From the 1950s onwards, organisational contacts were nevertheless also developed. By the 1970s, a Swedish fascist party, the Nordic Reich…
Pohjoismaisen Vastarintaliikkeen kieltäminen ja sen seuraukset
2020
Kansallissosialistisen Pohjoismaisen Vastarintaliikkeen toiminta on kielletty Suomessa. Järjestö vaikuttaa reagoineen kieltoon perustamalla uusia ryhmiä sekä hajauttamalla toimintaansa. Tulevan kehityksen kannalta merkityksellistä on, millaisia johtopäätöksiä viranomaiset tekevät järjestön kieltämisestä, sekä miten he reagoivat mahdollisiin yrityksiin jatkaa järjestön toimintaa. nonPeerReviewed