Contesting and envisioning ' trygghet ': The Sweden Democrats, Social Democrats, and the 2018 Swedish General Election
Contesting and envisioning ' trygghet ': The Sweden Democrats, Social Democrats, and the 2018 Swedish General Election
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“trygghet”的竞争和设想：瑞典民主党、社会民主党和 2018 年瑞典大选
作者：
Airas I
2018年9月，当选民们前往投票站时，国际观察员们都在关注瑞典。鉴于瑞典民粹主义政党瑞典民主党（Sweden Democrats）预计将获得大量支持，评论人士讽刺地猜测，这是否最终意味着社会民主党失势的最后堡垒？在2015年难民危机和暴力犯罪率上升的背景下，瑞典最终会屈服于民粹主义的情感诉求吗？在本文中，我们主张从国家层面出发进行分析，以充分认识使瑞典民粹主义在其社会文化背景下独树一帜的因素。我们认为，融合了“情感转向”思想的语言地缘政治是分析领土隐喻的深刻情感内涵和与之相关的情感结构的独特之处。这是通过展示2018年的选举是如何集中于对瑞典“奋斗”概念的相互竞争的动员来实现的。这个充满情感的概念，表示一种舒适和整体安全的感觉结构，在英语世界中找不到相应的概念。从与瑞典民主党和社会民主党一起进行的两个民族志研究项目中获得见解，我们认为，这是一个丰富的社会文化启发式工具，传达了支撑2018年瑞典选举的地理历史特殊性。事实上，我们展示了瑞典人的“祖国”和“人民之家”概念之间的联系，以帮助解释瑞典民粹主义的兴起。
In September 2018, international observers were fixated on Sweden as voters went to the polls. With the national populist party, the Sweden Democrats, predicted to gain significant support, commentators sardonically speculated whether this might finally spell the last bastion of social democracy’s fall from grace? Against the backdrop of the 2015 refugee crisis and growing violent crime rates, would Sweden finally succumb to the emotive appeal of populism? In this paper, we argue for an analysis that starts at the national level to fully appreciate the elements that made Swedish populism unique to its socio‐cultural context. We propose that a geopolitics of language fused with ideas from the ‘affective turn’ is uniquely poised to analyse the deeply affective connotations of territorial metaphors and the structures of feelings associated with them. This is done by showing how the 2018 election centred on competing mobilisations of the Swedish concept oftrygghet. This affectively loaded concept, denoting a structure of feeling of comforting and holistic safety, finds no equivalent in the Anglophone world. Taking insights from two ethnographic research projects, conducted with the Sweden Democrats and the Social Democrats, we argue thattrygghetserves as a rich socio‐cultural heuristic device that conveys the geohistorical specificities underpinning the 2018 Swedish elections. Indeed, we show the links between the Swedish notions oftrygghetand thefolkhem(people’s home) to help explain the rise of Swedish populism.