FILLING THE IDEOLOGICAL VOID: „RESTORATIVE‟ NOSTALGIA AND THE RADICAL RIGHT PARTIES IN ROMANIA

• Authors: Iancu Alexandra Alina
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article examines the role occupied by nostalgia as a group-based emotion in shaping the ‘micro-politics’ of the radical right parties. The paper argues that the high ideological eclecticism of RRP is primarily due to the strategies deployed in the weaponization of the past. As a discursive strategy, nostalgia substantially conditions party appeals well beyond the symbolic and mythological references, contaminating broader policy-oriented assertions. The study is focused on two paired examples of ultranationalist parliamentary parties: the Greater Romanian Party and the Alliance for the Union of Romanians. Content analysis of primary and secondary sources emphasizes that despite a 30-year time gap, the two Romanian RRP showcase remarkably high levels of programmatic and discourse overlap due to nostalgia-based strategies of boosting nationalist crucial identities.

Keywords

EN

POLITICAL EMOTIONS; RADICAL RIGHT PARTIES; ROMANIA; NATIONALISM

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 220 – 243

Contributors

author

Iancu Alexandra Alina

• Faculty of Political Science, Str. Spiru Haret no 8, Bucharest, 010175, Romania

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2023.55.2.8