Our research establishes a transnational basis for the work in the SolRen project. A series of research tasks will chart how right-wing authoritarianism is remembered in these countries (eg invoked in contemporary media, political and broader discourses) and attitudes towards remembrance practices (contestations, debates etc). We rely on specific methodologies of narrative analysis, critical discourse analysis and history/archival research. It will produce cutting edge research about narratives of authoritarianism in liberal discourses, dynamics of memory and forgetting, appropriations of narratives, how contested heritage and memory operate and how they play into mainstreaming far-right narratives.
It involves desk research, quantitative research (surveys), focus groups with a relevant sample of the public and relevant stakeholders in the five countries have dealt with right-wing authoritarianism, initiatives in memory politics and how these have affected local communities (Portugal, after 1974, Spain, after 1975, Romania, after 1948, Italy, after 1978, Finland after 1945); it maps how resistance today and relevant cultural heritage and attempts to showcase usages of these narratives in the current discourses of the right-wing and extremist actors. The overall scope of the research also means operationalising a pool of relevant experts in the public history/memory/intercultural dialogue/cultural heritage field informed on the practices in each country that can be used as relevant informants throughout the project in the memory forums.
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