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Doctoral Student | 💭📚✍🏻 Far-right politics & democracy, political behaviour | Rooted in 🇦🇹🇭🇺, now in 🇺🇸 | views mine, but often based on research. | #firstgen Arbeiterkind | http://gabrielagreilinger.com
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“Illegal immigration, in particular, is poisoning our politics and trust in institutions.” Dangerous and reckless language in a deeply nativist @financialtimes.com column today. The normalization of far-right ideas in the name of fighting far-right actors is morally and strategically wrong!

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

This, yes. Also reminds me of how these claims about the "feminisation of the state/society" are often made in relation to the welfare state, which took on part of the (previously unpaid) care work typically performed by women (then leading to various arguments about said "feminisation".)

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Ungarn ist hier natürlich ein besonders dämliches Beispiel. Orbán ist seit 15 Jahren der “tiefe Staat”. Und was wenn er die Wahlen 2026 tatsächlich verliert? Stellen sich die Bürger dann gegen den “tiefen [Orbánschen] Staat” oder nennt die FPÖ das dann Wahlbetrug? Ich glaube wir kennen die Antwort.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I spent the past week or so immersed in the anti-feminist, far-right YouTube sphere to write up a digital mini-ethnography as a final paper for a class. But honestly, by now I almost feel like I could’ve just watched a few NYT video interviews and scoured mainstream media opinion pages instead.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

More mainstreaming and normalising, since we haven't had it for a whole 2 days or so

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Gentle reminder on this International Workers' Day that the far right is not and never has been the defender of the working class. 🤗 #MayDay www.etui.org/publications...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Populism remains an important necessary concept to understand current political transformations. But analysts need to move away from it as the main focus. Authoritarian nativism, white supremacy, racism, sexism and fascism are the ideologies at the core of the current erosion of liberal democracy 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

A "MAGA body". The NYT, playing directly into the narrative of the alleged strong, hyper-masculine, right-wing "Alpha-men", as opposed to the weak, feminised left.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

To me, still the most interesting map of Vienna from last Sunday's election, which shows the second-placed party in each voting precinct.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Gonna switch to military time now before I accidentally ask another student to come in at 11 pm at night to take their make-up exam. Poor students thinking I actually wanted them to take it at this ungodly hour.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The Israeli cybersecurity firm cofounded by former 🇦🇹 chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Shalev Hulio, founder of the NSO-Group (remember the Pegasus software?), is opening an office in Vienna. www.diepresse.com/19624009/seb...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Can't be sad about the weekend being over when you didn't have a weekend

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

In Döbling (19th district), one of the wealthiest districts in Vienna with one of the lowest shares of foreigners. ÖVP loses 11.7% and far-right FPÖ wins 11.1%

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Elections in "Red Vienna" today: Social Democrats came in first as expected but lost around 2 percentage points compared to last time, currently placing them just above their worst election result in the city (39.15%). Meanwhile, the far-right FPĂ– received ~20.5%, up from 7% in the last election.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Austrian Member of Parliament Marcus Franz (independent at the time but formerly of Team Stronach, then Ă–VP, later associated with FPĂ–) here in a 2017 parliamentary speech saying, "We need to strengthen families and not the state"

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Really glad this is happening this weekend, as so many international students have been asking themselves these questions for weeks

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Austrian Member of Parliament Marcus Franz (independent at the time but formerly of Team Stronach, then Ă–VP, later associated with FPĂ–) here in a 2017 parliamentary speech saying, "We need to strengthen families and not the state"

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 8 days ago • 610 comments

Still out here trying to dissect the relationship between neoliberalism, far-right and gender/family politics

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Today, a far-right MP used a Nazi term during his remarks in the plenary session. The far-right President of the Parliament first ignored it and then, when another MP asked him to issue a call to order, replied that he'd first have to *review the connotation of this term*. bsky.app/profile/luka...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Populism is secondary to both the demand and supply of "populist" parties. Time to make "populism" a secondary concept in electoral and party politics again!

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Who could have predicted that a far-right President of the 🇦🇹 National Council would be far-right and behave like someone who is far-right? Really no one, certainly not the 43 "mainstream" MPs who didn't want to break with tradition and voted him into office, next to the 57 FPÖ members.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Tatsächliche Expert:innen sind bei der Frage in etwa so gespalten wie beim Klimawandel - die Antwort ist ausgrenzen. Aber man kann sich darauf verlassen, dass man doch immer jemanden finden kann für bothsidesism. Politik nimmt sich dann was ihr besser gefällt. www.tagesschau.de/inland/debat...

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

What are the political consequences of long-term population loss? In a new paper for German Politics @benjaminhoehne.bsky.social, Hendrik Träger and I find that East German places more affected by depopulation provided stronger support for the AfD in recent state elections.🧵👇 shorturl.at/cujwa

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments