Can understanding social representations of home unpack the central empty signifier of populism—the “true people”? Nationalist exclusionary forms of populism use home, birthplace, and born and bred narratives to frame sections of the population as Other. “Go Home” vans in the United Kingdom, Donald Trump's use of birther rhetoric during his previous presidential candidacy and the Sweden Democrats mobilization of folkhemmet (people's home) to question migrant welfare contributions together illustrate how nationalist populism works. Populism uses threat and insecurity, related to home, to make hegemonic a protectionist and reified worldview of home as stable, bounded and historically continuous. This article examines how populist rhetoric of home compares to people's actual social representations of home. Using cross-European interviews (N = 76) we find the dynamics of home relate to three social representations—home as a threatened space, home as birthplace, and home as a lifespan journey. These are articulated through a dialogical self engaged in transnational and intergenerational dialogue. The evidence of dynamic, dialogical, and relationally continuous representations of home points to the value of further examination of alternative social representations of home. This articulation could counter protectionist rhetoric associated with both vertical (ordinary/elite) and horizontal (people/migrant) dimensions of nationalist populism.

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民粹主义与人民：公民对家庭的社会代表如何破坏国家民粹主义的领土视野

能否理解家庭的社会表征能解开民粹主义的核心空虚指征，即“真正的人民”？民族主义的民粹主义排他性形式使用家庭，出生地以及出生和育种的叙述来将人口的某些部分构成“其他”。英国的“回家”货车，唐纳德·特朗普对分娩者的使用在他上届总统竞选期间的言论和瑞典民主党动员民俗（人民之家）来质疑移民福利贡献，共同说明了民族主义民粹主义的运作方式。民粹主义利用与房屋有关的威胁和不安全感，使霸权主义成为稳定的，有限的，历史上连续的，保护主义的，统一化的房屋世界观。本文研究民粹主义的家庭修辞与人们实际的家庭社会代表作比较。使用跨欧洲采访（N = 76），我们发现房屋的动态与三种社会表征有关：房屋作为受威胁的空间，房屋作为出生地以及房屋作为生命历程。这些是通过从事跨国和代际对话的对话自我表达出来的。动态，对话和相关的连续表示形式的房屋证据表明，进一步检查房屋的其他社会表示形式的价值。这种表述可以抵消与民族主义民粹主义的纵向（普通/精英）和横向（人/移民）维度相关的保护主义言论。