Against women: the misogynist discourse of Vox. "Growling words" of Spanish national-populism

  • Miguel Rivas Venegas Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. Investigador postdoctoral Juan de la Cierva
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/infe.69585
Keywords: National-populism, Anti-feminism, Rhetoric, Social Media, Misogyny, Spanish Politics, Vox

Abstract

The escalating growth of national populism taking place in Spain is deeply related with the management of the Catalonian political conflict and with the consolidated progression of equivalent political platforms worldwide – cases such as Bolsonaro in Brazil, Trump in the US, Boris Johnon in the United Kingdom, AfD in Germany or more established cases such as Orban in Hungary-, but it should also be examined and studied as a counter-reactive phenomenon, intended to stop the advances of feminism. This article will focus on the misogynous discourse of extreme right party Vox, framing and analysing it as part of a rhetorical revolution of transnational scale. The study will be conducted using methodologies of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) – particularly those developed on the pioneer work of Teun Van Dijk, both in relationship with political language use and specifically on the language of Spanish politics (1993;1997; 2006a). Other notions, such as those of “snarl words” developed in the work of Ichiye Ayakawa (1939), or that of “lexical arsenals” (Veres, 2006; Rivas Venegas, 2020) will also be included as part of the methodological apparatus to confront the qualitative analysis of the keywords ingrained in this populist party.

 

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Miguel Rivas Venegas, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. Investigador postdoctoral Juan de la Cierva

Miguel Rivas Venegas (Madrid, 1989) is Doctor Summa Cum Laude in Art History from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2018). Having developed his PhD research as an invited PhD researcher at the Humboldt Universitätzu Berlin, his work grasped the compared analysis of visual communication and language use of transnational fascism (1931-1945), with specific focus on the “visual-lexical arsenals” of Francoism and Nationalsocialism. AsEHU/UPV Postdoctoral researcher of the Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Programme (Spanish Ministry of Science), his current research focus both on the qualitative analysis of political language use of Spanish right-wing populism in transnational perspective (German-speaking countries, Italy, France) and the simultaneous study of the self-representation strategies and visual materials produced by contemporary rechtspopulismus in Europe. His undercurrent research interests include: Nation-building macro-narratives, the study of national identities, gender studies and the categorization of political metaphors, amongst others.

He is also member of the Cluster of Excellence EXC 2020 Temporal Communities: doing literature in a Global Perspective (FreieUniversität Berlin) where he was researching as Postdoctoral Fellow in 2019, as well as part of the research group “Hate Pictures”: Bildpraktiken und aversive Emotionen in der visuellenKultur des Politischen (TechnischeUniversität Berlin). He also researched and worked, amongst other places, at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and at the MuseoNacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.

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Published
2021-02-03
How to Cite
Rivas Venegas M. (2021). Against women: the misogynist discourse of Vox. "Growling words" of Spanish national-populism. Investigaciones Feministas (Feminist Research), 12(1), 67-77. https://doi.org/10.5209/infe.69585
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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2021): Monograph: Feminism, misogyny and social networks
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Monograph

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