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Contesting and envisioning ‘trygghet’: The Sweden Democrats, Social Democrats, and the 2018 Swedish General Election
Area ( IF 1.6 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-21 , DOI: 10.1111/area.12689
Isabel Airas 1 , Carl Truedsson 2
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In September 2018, international observers were fixated on Sweden as voters went to the polls. With the national populist party, the Sweden Democrats, predicted to gain significant support, commentators sardonically speculated whether this might finally spell the last bastion of social democracy’s fall from grace? Against the backdrop of the 2015 refugee crisis and growing violent crime rates, would Sweden finally succumb to the emotive appeal of populism? In this paper, we argue for an analysis that starts at the national level to fully appreciate the elements that made Swedish populism unique to its socio-cultural context. We propose that a geopolitics of language fused with ideas from the ‘affective turn’ is uniquely poised to analyse the deeply affective connotations of territorial metaphors and the structures of feelings associated with them. This is done by showing how the 2018 election centred on competing mobilisations of the Swedish concept of trygghet. This affectively loaded concept, denoting a structure of feeling of comforting and holistic safety, finds no equivalent in the Anglophone world. Taking insights from two ethnographic research projects, conducted with the Sweden Democrats and the Social Democrats, we argue that trygghet serves as a rich socio-cultural heuristic device that conveys the geohistorical specificities underpinning the 2018 Swedish elections. Indeed, we show the links between the Swedish notions of trygghet and the folkhem (people’s home) to help explain the rise of Swedish populism.

中文翻译:

竞争和设想“trygghet”:瑞典民主党、社会民主党和 2018 年瑞典大选

2018 年 9 月,随着选民前往投票站,国际观察员将目光投向了瑞典。随着全国民粹主义政党瑞典民主党预计将获得大量支持,评论员讽刺地推测,这是否最终意味着社会民主党失宠的最后堡垒?在 2015 年难民危机和暴力犯罪率不断上升的背景下,瑞典最终会屈服于民粹主义的情感诉求吗?在本文中,我们主张从国家层面开始进行分析,以充分理解使瑞典民粹主义在其社会文化背景下独树一帜的因素。我们提出,一种融合了“情感转向”思想的语言地缘政治学可以独特地分析领土隐喻的深刻情感内涵以及与之相关的情感结构。尝试。这个充满情感的概念,表示一种舒适感和整体安全感的结构,在英语世界中找不到对应的概念。从与瑞典民主党和社会民主党进行的两个民族志研究项目中汲取见解,我们认为trygghet是一种丰富的社会文化启发式工具,传达了支持 2018 年瑞典选举的地史特征。事实上,我们展示了瑞典的trygghet概念与folkhem(人民之家)之间的联系,以帮助解释瑞典民粹主义的兴起。
更新日期:2020-11-21
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