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Position paper

Discourses and practices of the ‘New Normal’

Towards an interdisciplinary research agenda on crisis and the normalization of anti- and post‑democratic action

 | Uppsala University
 | University of Vienna, Austria | Lancaster University
 | Uppsala University
 | Uppsala University
 | Keele University
 | Örebro University
 | University of Georgia
 | Stockholm University
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Published online: 17 July 2023
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Abstract
This position paper argues for an interdisciplinary agenda relating crises to on-going processes of normalization of anti- and post-democratic action. We call for exploring theoretically and empirically the ‘new normal’ logic introduced into public imagination on the back of various crises, including the recent ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Europe, COVID-19 pandemic, or the still ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. Gathering researchers of populism, extremism, discrimination, and other formats of anti- and post-democratic action, we propose investigating how, why, and under which conditions, discourses and practices underlying normalization processes re-emerge to challenge the liberal democratic order. We argue exploring the multiple variants of ‘the new normal’ related to crises, historically and more recently. We are interested in how and why these open pathways for politics of exclusion, inequality, xenophobia and other patterns of anti- and post-democratic action while deepening polarization and radicalization of society as well as propelling far-right politics and ideologies.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Scope/Focus of the suggested research agenda
  • 3.On the conceptual connection between crisis, normalization and anti- & post-democratic action
  • 4.Theoretical and conceptual contribution
  • 5.(Final) methodological considerations – connecting discourse to practice
  • References
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2025. Saying ‘Criminality’, meaning ‘immigration’? Proxy discourses and public implicatures in the normalisation of the politics of exclusion. Critical Discourse Studies 22:2 ► pp. 183 ff. DOI logo
Ellis, Justin R
2025. Digiqueer criminology and the new LGBTQ+ visibility. Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 21:4 ► pp. 490 ff. DOI logo
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2025. The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies. Scando-Slavica 71:1 ► pp. 191 ff. DOI logo
Güler, Kamber
2025. Construction of Fear of the Other as an Electoral Strategy in European Politics: The Case of France and Sweden. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies ► pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Herz, Monica & Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann
2025. Crisis of Democracy and Multilateralism: Effects of Bolsonaro’s Far-Right Government on EU-LAC Relations. In Finance, Growth and Democracy: Connections and Challenges in Europe and Latin America in the Era of Permacrisis [United Nations University Series on Regionalism, 33], ► pp. 19 ff. DOI logo
Hess, Fabian M.
2025. Radicalized Mainstream: Turning an Oxymoron into Something Meaningful. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society DOI logo
Hofer-Bonfim, Bernadette & Franzisca Weder
2025. Strategic re-organization or adaptation-based trend? DEI reporting in banking in Brazil, the US and Italy. Corporate Communications: An International Journal 30:7 ► pp. 138 ff. DOI logo
Krzyżanowski, Michał & Hugo Ekström
2025. “No longer the haven of tolerance”? The press and discursive shifts on immigration in Sweden 2010–2022. Social Semiotics 35:3 ► pp. 472 ff. DOI logo
Lipińska, Maria & Dariusz Jemielniak
2025. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Journal of Language and Politics DOI logo
López, Alonso & Javier Ruiz-Tagle
2025. Violent demonstrations in marginal territories and their place in politics: A case study in Lo Hermida, Santiago de Chile. Anthropological Theory 25:1 ► pp. 53 ff. DOI logo
McCurdy, Patrick, Kaitlin Clarke & Bart Cammaerts
2025. From social awareness to authoritarian other. Journal of Language and Politics 24:6 ► pp. 910 ff. DOI logo
McKeon, Kerry Ann
2025. The Tennessee three. Journal of Language and Politics DOI logo
Meuth, Anna-Maria
2025. Dissemination and Prevention of Anti-Muslim Narratives and Practices in Urban Governance in England and Germany. In Radicalising the Mainstream in Western Europe, ► pp. 127 ff. DOI logo
Meuth, Anna-Maria, Max Manuel Brunner, Liriam Sponholz, Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann & Sabrina Zajak
2025. Vom Rand in die Mitte? Rechtspopulistische Islamdeutungen und praxisorientierte Handlungsempfehlungen. In Islamismus als gesellschaftliche Herausforderung [Studien des Leibniz-Instituts für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, ], ► pp. 129 ff. DOI logo
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2025. Introduction. In Radicalising the Mainstream in Western Europe, ► pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Patrona, Marianna
2025. From Victim to Avenger: Trump’s Performance of Strategic Victimhood and the Waging of Global Trade War. Journalism and Media 6:3 ► pp. 134 ff. DOI logo
Průchová Hrůzová, Andrea & Lydie Kárníková
2025. Imagining the Postcolonial in Central Eastern Europe: Controversies of the Czech Manifesto for Decolonization. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 38:2 ► pp. 261 ff. DOI logo
Ragragio, Jefferson Lyndon D
2025. Custodian of rule of law and national interest: Political journalism and the discourse of Philippines–China maritime tensions. Media, War & Conflict DOI logo
Ragragio, Jefferson Lyndon D.
2025. Performing Durable Politics: Comparing Mediated Populism in the Philippines. Javnost - The Public 32:1 ► pp. 76 ff. DOI logo
Salhi, Mohamed
2025. Surprises, symbols, and mainstreaming. Journal of Language and Politics DOI logo
Sauer, Birgit
2025. Masculinist identity politics as a strategy for normalizing authoritarian-right narratives. The cases of Germany and Austria. Journal of Contemporary European Studies ► pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Smrdelj, Rok
2025. Navigating Antagonism: Feminist and LGBT+ Responses to Slovenian Anti-Gender Mobilizations. In Anti-Gender Mobilizations in Europe and the Feminist Response [Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology, ], ► pp. 53 ff. DOI logo
Tang, Ziqian
2025. Recontextualizing the “community with a shared future for mankind”. Journal of Language and Politics DOI logo
Trimithiotis, Dimitris & Theodosia Demetriou
2025. When pro-vaccine media discourses meet vaccine hesitancy. Journal of Language and Politics DOI logo
Zajak, Sabrina, Anna-Maria Meuth & Fabio Best
2025. The Dynamics of (De-)Normalization of the Far Right: Perceptions in the German Population. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society DOI logo
Bevitori, Cinzia & Katherine E. Russo
2024. ‘Because Climate Change Is the Crisis That Will Stay With Us’: Crisis, Polycrisis, and Permacrisis in the EU Discursive Space. In Critical Approaches to Polycrisis, ► pp. 283 ff. DOI logo
Dannemann, Hauke, Margaret Haderer & Ingolfur Blühdorn
2024. Why now? Questioning the confidence in eco-political experimentation in civil society. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 7:6 ► pp. 2321 ff. DOI logo
Hansson, Sten & Ruth Page
2024. Discourses of political blame games: Introduction. Discourse, Context & Media 60 ► pp. 100799 ff. DOI logo
Keiff, Sebastien
2024. The emergence of externally active representative bureaucracy, a narrative review. Administrative Theory & Praxis 46:3 ► pp. 343 ff. DOI logo
Lamour, Christian
2024. Commemoration and radical right-wing populism in European borderlands. Journal of Language and Politics 23:3 ► pp. 348 ff. DOI logo
Lamour, Christian
2024. Normalizing and Mainstreaming the French Radical Right: Divergences in Leadership Communication during a Summer of Inland and Borderland Tensions. The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 9:3 ► pp. 736 ff. DOI logo
Lamour, Christian
2025. NEGOTIATING A CULTURAL ORDER FOR THE URBAN SPACE: The European Capital of Culture Initiative as a Boundary Object Mobilized by Radical‐Right Cities. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 49:5 ► pp. 1129 ff. DOI logo
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2025. Normalizing the Radical Right’s Discourse on Press Freedom in the European Parliament: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to the EMFA Debates. Government and Opposition ► pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Lamour, Christian
2025. The Patriarch is Dead, Long Live the Patriarchy: Berlusconi, Women, and the Quality Press in Our Kulturkampf Zeitgeist. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 38:3 ► pp. 401 ff. DOI logo
Luining, Michiel & Tom Van Hout
2024. Subverting EU legal concepts. Journal of Language and Politics DOI logo
Luining, Michiel & Tom Van Hout
2025. Trojan Horse Discourse. In The Handbook of Social and Political Conflict, ► pp. 75 ff. DOI logo
Maci, Stefania M.
2024. From Climate Change to Global Crises. The Perspective of UNO. In Critical Approaches to Polycrisis, ► pp. 209 ff. DOI logo
Martino, Wayne & Diana Kuhl
2024. Epistemic injustice and violence in times of resurgent anti-trans backlash, emboldened white supremacist rhetoric and far-right extremism. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 45:5-6 ► pp. 599 ff. DOI logo
McSwiney, Jordan & Kurt Sengul
2024. Humor, Ridicule, and the Far Right: Mainstreaming Exclusion Through Online Animation. Television & New Media 25:4 ► pp. 315 ff. DOI logo
Parnell, Tamsin, Tom Van Hout & Dario Del Fante
2024. Critical Discursive Responses to Polycrisis. In Critical Approaches to Polycrisis, ► pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Sengul, Kurt & Jordan McSwiney
2024. “Nazis Aren’t Welcome Here”: Selling Democracy in the Age of Far-Right Extremism. Media and Communication 12 DOI logo
Szalai, Andras
2024. Bordering and crisis narratives to illiberal ends. Journal of Language and Politics 23:3 ► pp. 391 ff. DOI logo

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