Jan 28 – Guest Lecture “Far Right Zines and Gender Activities” 🗓

The seminar will show perspectives for the research with subcultural print media. For this purpose, Zines will be presented as a special form of subcultural communication of the extreme right in the period from 1990 to 2000. The focus is on Zines published by women of the extreme right. First, the content, design and editorial structure of Zines will be presented. This is followed by an introduction to qualitative (multimodal) methods for analyzing right-wing communication and gender activities.

Alexandra Mehnert is a PhD candidate at the University of Leipzig (project title: “Right Wing Print Media and Gender Discourses”) and project coordinator in a ‘de-radicalization’ project at the Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft “Ausstieg zum Einstieg” e. V., Jena. She holds an M.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in German Language and Literature. Her research interests include far right and right wing print media (comics, zines, magazines), democracy, and de-radicalization.

You can download the poster for the event here.