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      Populist stories of honest men and proud mothers: A visual narrative analysis

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      Review of International Studies
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          This article proposes the methodological framework of visual narrative analysis through the study of images and narratives. We are interested in the appeal of political storytelling. In applying an approach of layered interpretation, we study images and slogans to consider the more complex underlying narratives in their political and cultural context. Our exploratory case studies draw on material from right-wing populist parties, namely election campaign posters from Germany and the UK as material for the analysis. We find that narratives operate with a ‘fantasmatic logic’, which adds fantasy to politics, to depoliticise and camouflage their radical intent and gain approval by making consent desirable. We identify two exemplary narratives (honest men under threat; proud mothers) that entrench traditional gender roles in accordance with patriarchy and nationalism. Theoretically, our approach contributes to debates in IR on cultural underpinnings in international politics and the construction of collective identities through shared/divided narratives. Visual narrative analysis provides a promising methodological tool for analysing visual representations in their productive relationship with text. This perspective foregrounds the power of political storytelling through fantasmatic appeal and fosters a better understanding of the global rise of populism.

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                Review of International Studies
                Rev. Int. Stud.
                Cambridge University Press (CUP)
                0260-2105
                1469-9044
                April 2020
                December 09 2019
                April 2020
                : 46
                : 2
                : 217-236
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                10.1017/S0260210519000421
                ce95e3b3-5464-4342-b496-4834a3e89e44
                © 2020

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