Benjamin De Cleen

Benjamin de cleen

vrije universiteit brussel

Benjamin De Cleen is an assistant professor at the VUB Communication Studies Department where he is the coordinator of the English-language Communication Studies master on Journalism and Media in Europe. He is also a non-resident fellow of the Center for Media, Data and Society at the Central European University. His research is situated within discourse studies, and has mainly been focused on radical right rhetoric, on the role of expressive culture in the resistance against the radical right, and on the discourse-theoretical development of the concepts of populism, nationalism and conservatism.

Recent publications

De Cleen, Benjamin; Glynos, Jason; Mondon, Aurelien (2018) Critical Research on Populism: Nine Rules of Engagement. Organization. Online first, 13 April 2018, http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1350508418768053
with Berger, Mathieu (2018) Interpellated citizens. Signalled subject positions in a citizen deliberation process on health care reimbursement. Comunicazione Sociale - Social Communication 52(1): 91-103. Download via journal page here
(2018) ‘The conservative political logic. A discourse-theoretical perspective.’ Journal of Political Ideologies23(1): 10-29. Journal article download here and pre-final full text here
with Yannis Stavrakakis (2017) Distinctions and Articulations. A Discourse Theoretical Framework for the study of Populism and Nationalism. Javnost – The Public 24(4): 301-219. Download via journal page hereand free full text here
edited, with Yannis Stavrakakis (2017). 'Populism and Nationalism: Constructing and Representing ‘the People’ as Underdog and as Nation'. Special issue of Javnost - The Public. Special issue page here
De Cleen, Benjamin (2017) Populism, Exclusion, Post-truth. Some Conceptual Caveats. Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy”. International Journal of Health Policy Management 7(3): 268-271. Open access article here
(2017) Populism and nationalism. In Handbook of Populism, edited by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Paul Taggart, Paulina Ochoa Espejo and Pierre Ostiguy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter download here and pre-final version download here
De Cleen, Benjamin, Jan Zienkowski, Kevin Smets, Afra Dekie & Robin Vandevoordt) (2017). Constructing the ‘refugee crisis’ in Flanders. Continuities and adaptations of discourses on asylum and migration. In: Barlai, M; Fähnrich, B; Griessler, C, and Rhomberg, M. (eds.) The migration crisis: European perspectives and national discourses. Berlin: LIT-Verlag: 59-78. Full text here
(with Torgeir Uberg Naerland) (eds.) (2016) Special issue of JOMEC - Journal of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies on ‘Expressive culture and populist radical right parties in Europe’. Open access publication here
(2016) ‘The party of the people versus the cultural elite. Populism and nationalism in Flemish radical right rhetoric about artists’. JOMEC - Journal of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies 9. Open access publication here
with Peter Van Aelst (2016) Research on populism in Belgium. In: Aalberg, Toril, De Vreese, Claes, Esser, Frank, Strombäck, Jesper & Reinemann, Carsten (eds.) Populist political communication in Europe. A cross-national analysis of 27 European countries. London: Routledge, pp. 99-110. Full text here
(2016) Representing ‘the people’. The articulation of nationalism and populism in the rhetoric of the Flemish VB. In: Jamin, Jérôme (ed.) Le destin de la norme. Brussels: Academia Bruylant, pp. 224-242. Pre-final version download here
(2015) ‘“Flemish Friends, Let us Separate!”: The Discursive Struggle for Flemish Nationalist Civil Society in the Media’. Javnost - The Public 22(1): 37–54. Open access publication here