Unveiling the Transnational and Digital Metapolitics of the New Right: Insights from EAJS ConferenceOur research group presented the latest findings of the ongoing research at the EAJS conference held at Ghent University from August 17 to 20, 2023. The findings were presented at the panel titled “The transnational and digital metapolitics of the New Right”. […]
The New Right has truly fetishized Japan. In the past decades, “Japan” has turned into a crypto-fascist chiffre for core aspects of the ideology of the Far-Right. That is to say, by using “Japan” as a code, the proponents of the New Right can publicly express their views and propagate their worldviews without exposing themselves as fascists.
In this comparative research project we study different instances of political populism as a “thin ideology” (Mudde/Kaltwasser) in its respective ideological proximity to right-wing discourses in Japan and Germany from a discourse-analytical perspective.