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Benjamin De Cleen

@benjamindecleen.bsky.social
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Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel working on far right, populism, discourse.

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Benjamin De Cleen @benjamindecleen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I just wrote a piece for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social about Orbán's defeat by Peter Magyar. The piece argues that this was not a defeat of populism, as much commentary has it, but quite the opposite—a victory that was possible because of populism. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
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Viktor Orbán’s defeat was not a victory over populism but a populist victory
Péter Magyar's defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary was not a victory over populism, but an expression of its own form of democratic populism.
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Jens Rydgren @jensrydgren.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Our new special issue is now published! "Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right" www.tandfonline.com/toc/csos20/3...
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Social Semiotics
Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right. Volume 36, Issue 1 of Social Semiotics
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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
🔥 NEW ARTICLE ALERT 🔥 The five spatial political logics of populism: An analytical framework and research agenda for studying the populist politicisation of space from the local to the transnational in @bjpir.bsky.social with Benjamin de Cleen & Panos Panayotu journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The five spatial political logics of populism: An analytical framework and research agenda for studying the populist politicisation of space from the local to the transnational - Benjamin De Cleen, Be...
How does populism interact with space? While it is increasingly acknowledged that populism operates across geographical scales from the local to the transnation...
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Kevin Smets @kevinsmets.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
⚡ Out now: Javnost-The Public special issue "The far-right and the politics of films, series and videogames", co-edited w @benjamindecleen.bsky.social, Omran Shroufi, Joke Bauwens & me. Full issue here www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjav20/3...
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Benjamin De Cleen @benjamindecleen.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Very happy to see this nice collaboration with Juan get a prize from @polstudies.bsky.social !
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Benjamin De Cleen @benjamindecleen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Really happy www.researchcenterdesire.eu could team up with the Populism Specialist Group to co-host this workshop to rethink hegemony, populism & political strategy for the current moment.
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