Comfortably theirs: The Finns Party Members and Their Choice of Party
(2024) TKAM02 20241Division of Ethnology
- Abstract
- This is a thesis about the Finnish populistic party Perussuomalaiset, in English the Finns Party. The party has become a force to be reckoned within the Finnish politics, therefore, knowing more about the Finns Party members is a must. The aim of the thesis is to map the identities of the Finns Party members and to find out why they chose this particular party. This is interesting because populism is problematic for the EU — we need to know more about populistic movements in the EU. 14 interviews of the Finns Party members were conducted in 2013 for this thesis, the main methods being semi-structured interview and ethnography. Therefore, this thesis is about the Finns Party in the 2010s. The Finns Party members’ views were analysed, among... (More)
- This is a thesis about the Finnish populistic party Perussuomalaiset, in English the Finns Party. The party has become a force to be reckoned within the Finnish politics, therefore, knowing more about the Finns Party members is a must. The aim of the thesis is to map the identities of the Finns Party members and to find out why they chose this particular party. This is interesting because populism is problematic for the EU — we need to know more about populistic movements in the EU. 14 interviews of the Finns Party members were conducted in 2013 for this thesis, the main methods being semi-structured interview and ethnography. Therefore, this thesis is about the Finns Party in the 2010s. The Finns Party members’ views were analysed, among others, with the help of Etienne Wenger’s communities of practice theory and the concepts of trust, people and identity. The main deliverables of this thesis are the following: the Finns Party was chosen as a means for political participation because 1) the members had been members of the Rural Party, 2) the Finns Party accommodated multiple identities, and not having been in the government, the party had no history of failing its voters 3) there were anti-EU sentiments in the party, 4) it was a match for personal projects of the members and 5) the party had anti-immigration spirit. In addition, the Finns party members were nationalistic and the Finns Party members felt joy and comfort in the party. The main deliverable of the main deliverables, then, is the sense of comfort in the Finns Party. For the Finns Party members, Finnish sovereignty represented comfort, while the EU represented discomfort. For the Finns Party members, the Finns Party was an answer for longing for the nation state. Finally, in the Finns Party, the members were allowed to, from the beginning, when they became members of the Finns Party, to express themselves freely, to be unabashedly nationalistic and to be whatever it meant to be oneself in the party, which created a sense of comfort. (Less)
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- author
- Honkonen, Kaisu Henriikka LU
- supervisor
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- course
- TKAM02 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- far right, politics, populism, right-wing, finns party, sannfinländarna, perussuomalaiset
- language
- English
- id
- 9178539
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- 2024-12-09 17:02:34
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abstract = {{This is a thesis about the Finnish populistic party Perussuomalaiset, in English the Finns Party. The party has become a force to be reckoned within the Finnish politics, therefore, knowing more about the Finns Party members is a must. The aim of the thesis is to map the identities of the Finns Party members and to find out why they chose this particular party. This is interesting because populism is problematic for the EU — we need to know more about populistic movements in the EU. 14 interviews of the Finns Party members were conducted in 2013 for this thesis, the main methods being semi-structured interview and ethnography. Therefore, this thesis is about the Finns Party in the 2010s. The Finns Party members’ views were analysed, among others, with the help of Etienne Wenger’s communities of practice theory and the concepts of trust, people and identity. The main deliverables of this thesis are the following: the Finns Party was chosen as a means for political participation because 1) the members had been members of the Rural Party, 2) the Finns Party accommodated multiple identities, and not having been in the government, the party had no history of failing its voters 3) there were anti-EU sentiments in the party, 4) it was a match for personal projects of the members and 5) the party had anti-immigration spirit. In addition, the Finns party members were nationalistic and the Finns Party members felt joy and comfort in the party. The main deliverable of the main deliverables, then, is the sense of comfort in the Finns Party. For the Finns Party members, Finnish sovereignty represented comfort, while the EU represented discomfort. For the Finns Party members, the Finns Party was an answer for longing for the nation state. Finally, in the Finns Party, the members were allowed to, from the beginning, when they became members of the Finns Party, to express themselves freely, to be unabashedly nationalistic and to be whatever it meant to be oneself in the party, which created a sense of comfort.}},
author = {{Honkonen, Kaisu Henriikka}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Comfortably theirs: The Finns Party Members and Their Choice of Party}},
year = {{2024}},
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