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Facts against femonationalism: how to stop radical right normalisation
How can liberal democratic actors counter the normalisation of the radical right? While much research documents how radical right ideology and anti-immigration positions have moved into the political mainstream across many Western democracies, far less is known about the counter-strategies that can be used to combat the normalisation of exclusionary policy agendas.
In this seminar, Katharina Lawall, Quantitative Social Scientist, will present the design and findings of a study that tests the effectiveness of different forms of counterspeech against a prominent radical-right normalisation strategy: femonationalism, which presents an anti-immigration position through the more acceptable frame of gender equality.
Katharina will delve into the experiment, in which nearly 4,000 German adults were exposed to anti-immigration rhetoric with a gender-equality justification in a short, news-style video, followed by alternative rebuttals, with the findings highlighting fact-based counterspeech as most effective for reducing support for femonationalist and anti-immigrant views.
Register to join on Zoom: zoom.us/meeting/register/pbFSmnaxQcq9n70pS2PBZA
Date:
19 February 2026, 15:45
Venue:
St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details:
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Speaker:
Katharina Lawall (University of Reading)
Organising department:
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
Organiser:
Sanne van Oosten (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
info@compas.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
The Politics of Immigration and Exclusion
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/the-politics-of-immigration-and-exclusion
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Nathan Grassi
