Társadalmak átalakulása, demokratizálódás, társadalmi mozgalmak
In their paper, "Cultures of Populism and the Political Right in Central Europe,"
Patricia Chiantera-Stutte and Andrea Petö analyze the common points and differences
in which imagined and mythologized histories are serving as a mobilizing force for
extreme-right movements in three Central European countries, in Austria, Hungary,
and Italy. The authors discuss how populist and right-wing political parties in these
countries construct their conceptions of an alternative identity for the European
Union. Further, the authors analyze the politico-territorial myths constructed by
the three populist right-wing parties, the Freedom Party in Austria, the Northern
League in Italy, and the Party of Hungarian Life and Truth. The programs of the three
parties assert the equasion of the German concept of Volk with territory: the Freedom
Party propagates a particular concept of Central Europe (Mitteleuropa), the Northern
League of Padania assumes to be the true "nation" of the reagion, and the Party of
Hungarian Life and Truth builds on imagined and mythologized concepts of an ancient
Hungary with a homogeneous society and culture. The authors analyze the construction
of essentialist identities based on imagined historical communities and on the exclusion
of the Other where anti-Semitism is a driving factor represent a sceptical ideology
evident in the discourse of the said parties.