Ruth Wodak has been Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University since 2004 and remains affiliated to the University of Vienna where she became full Professor of Applied Linguistics in 1991. In spring 2016, Ruth was Distinguished Schuman Fellow at the Schuman Centre, EUI, Florence. 2017, she held the Willi Brandt Chair at the University of Malmö, Sweden. Currently, she is a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna (IWM). Her research interests focus on discourse studies; gender studies; language and/in politics; prejudice and discrimination; and on ethnographic methods of linguistic field work.
Recent book publications include Europe at the Crossroads. Confronting Populist, Nationalist and Global Challenges (with Pieter Bevelander, Nordicum 2019); The Handbook of Language and Politics (Routledge 2018, with B. Forchtner); Kinder der Rückkehr. Geschichte einer marginalisierten Jugend (Springer 2018, with E. Berger); The Politics of Fear. What Right-wing Populist Discourses Mean (Sage, 2015; translation into the German Politik mit der Angst. Zur Wirkung rechtspopulistischer Diskurse. Konturen, 2016).
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Published in: Migrant FuturesWhat future for the EU after COVID-19?
The current crisis urgently calls for visions for the EU and, indeed, the world post-COVID-19.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Austria's smoking gun: Strache, “Ibiza-Gate”, and “Saint” Sebastian
Even such huge scandals which lead to the dissolution of a government, resignation of a Vice-Chancellor and the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Contesting liberal democracy using the racialisation of space
Such proposals and appeals have not been seen or heard in Vienna and Austria since Nazi times.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Free spaces for thought and de-acceleration
This is a revised version of the acceptance speech of the leading Austrian discourse analysis scholar, for a...
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Published in: openSecuritySecurity discourses and the radical right
Ruth Wodak launches a series of updates on the rise of the far right and exclusionary discourses in Europe. What...
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Published in: HomeOld and new demagoguery: the rhetoric of exclusion
Right-wing populist parties tend to be anti-multinational and anti-intellectual: they endorse nationalistic,...