In this stage of the study, the life narrative interviews are once again analysed from a critical perspective, allowing the construction of thematic categories that reflect discourses and systems of representation. The formulation of these categories resulted from the comparative observation of the interviews from both countries, with the aid of the software Nvivo. The identified thematic categories are: familism and the moralization of crises, present in neoconservatism and the völkisch discourse; female “antifeminism”; God and religion, between cultural Christianity and the neo-Pentecostal spiritual battle; the uses and abuses of memory and stances with regards to the past; the construction of the threatening Other; the people and the folk (der Volk) as a form of concealing power and oppression relations; the calculations about freedom and social justice seen as coercion; the discourse of madness, transformed into urgency and radicality of action; and finally, the search for bonds and the fissures of resistance. The analyses show strong similarities in the systems of representation among the youth of the radical right in both countries, even if these systems result in diverse agendas in their contexts. Furthermore, they reveal the youth’s desire to be agents of social change, as well as their learning experiences that “escape” the significant chains imposed by the movements.

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(De)Constructing the Narratives into Thematic Categories

  • Beatriz Besen

摘要

In this stage of the study, the life narrative interviews are once again analysed from a critical perspective, allowing the construction of thematic categories that reflect discourses and systems of representation. The formulation of these categories resulted from the comparative observation of the interviews from both countries, with the aid of the software Nvivo. The identified thematic categories are: familism and the moralization of crises, present in neoconservatism and the völkisch discourse; female “antifeminism”; God and religion, between cultural Christianity and the neo-Pentecostal spiritual battle; the uses and abuses of memory and stances with regards to the past; the construction of the threatening Other; the people and the folk (der Volk) as a form of concealing power and oppression relations; the calculations about freedom and social justice seen as coercion; the discourse of madness, transformed into urgency and radicality of action; and finally, the search for bonds and the fissures of resistance. The analyses show strong similarities in the systems of representation among the youth of the radical right in both countries, even if these systems result in diverse agendas in their contexts. Furthermore, they reveal the youth’s desire to be agents of social change, as well as their learning experiences that “escape” the significant chains imposed by the movements.