Susi Meret (born 4th of August 1971 in Udine, Italy) is an Associate Professor at Aalborg University, in Denmark, specializing in the study of Populism, and the Radical Right at the Department of Politics and Society[1].
Education and career
Susi Meret was born on August 4, 1971, in Udine, Italy. Meret studied History and Human Geography at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, in 1993. She obtained her MA in History from the University of Venice, Italy, in 1999. She earned her Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2010.
Meret has been an Assistant Professor in Ethnic Relations and Comparative Migration Politics from 2010 until 2014. Prior to this, she was a Research Assistant at the same university from 2009 to 2010.[2][3]
Academic Contributions
Meret's research interests include issues of inclusion and exclusion, populism, democratic deficits, political extremisms, and anti-gender and anti-feminist movements. She has conducted research on right-wing populism in Denmark, Italy, and Austria, and examined mainstream parties' counter-strategies at both national and EU levels. Her work also explores the role of Islam in the West and the broader civil society responses to anti-immigration anti-gender and anti-feminist movements and populist ethnic nationalism.[4][5]
Research and publications
She has been involved in several national and international research projects, as for instance the Nordic Populism network (NOPO), the European RAGE project, studying hate speech and populist Othering, and the multi-year Brookings project ”The One Percent Problem: Muslims in the West and the Rise of the New Populists”. Her more recent international research projects include: the NordForsk founded SEPOS: Social exclusion, polarization and security in the Nordic welfare state, and the European Horizon project FIERCE: Feminist Movements Revitalizing Democracy in Europe. [6][5][7][8]
Meret's research output includes several book chapters, journal articles, open access publications, reports, and working papers.
Selected publications
Meret's publications focus on populism, migration politics, and ethnic relations:
- Pajnik, Mojca; Meret, Susi (2017). Media Populism in Post-Democracy: The Crossroads of Right and Left Political Parties. Routledge. p. 157-171. ISBN 9781315101958.[9]
- Meret, Susi; Pajnik, Mojca (2017). "2". Populist Political Communication in Mediatized Society. Ashgate. ISBN 9781315101958.[10]
Migration politics:
- Meret, Susi (2021). Duties First, Rights Next! Danish Social Democrats' Right Turn on Migration Politics. Social Democracy in the 21st Century Comparative Social Research, Volume 35. p. 223-244. ISBN 978-1-83909-953-3.[11]
Civic Activism and Citizenship:
- Meret, Susi; Birte, Siim (2018). Dilemmas of Citizenship and Evolving Civic Activism in Denmark. Palgrave. p. 25-50. ISBN 978-3-319-76183-1.[12]
Anti-gender studies
- Meret, Susi; Francesca, Scrinzi (2024). The Far-Right, Anti-gender Politics and Neoliberal Globalization. Palgrave. p. 403-423. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-57144-2_18. ISBN 978-3-031-57143-5.[13]
Islamofobia and the populist right:
- Meret, Susi; Hans-Georg, Betz (2024). Revisiting Lepanto: The Political Mobilization against Islam in Contemporary Western Europe. Routledge. p. 313-334. ISBN 978-0-415-54987-5.[14]
Populism and female charismatic leadership
- Meret, Susi (2024). Charismatic female leadership and gender: Pia Kjærsgaard and the Danish People's Party. p. 81-102. ISSN 0031-322X.[15]
- Meret, Susi; Siim, Birte; Pingaud, Etienne (2016). Men's Parties with Women Leaders: A Comparative Study of Right-Wing Populist Leaders. Routledge. p. 122-149. ISBN 9781315656779.[16]
Dissermination
Trade unions and right-wing populism in Europe: [1]
The impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on Right-Wing Populism in Europe. The case of Denmark: Susi Meret on "The impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on Right-Wing Populism in Europe. The case of Denmark" - ECPS
Further reading
- Susi Meret Here you can read further about Meret's curriculum vitae.
References
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