Emotions, Populism and Polarisation

The international team studies hegemony, affects and political identification from interdisciplinary perspectives 

Faculty of Social Sciences building at the University of Helsinki
Welcome to the Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation (HEPP or HEPPsinki). Here you will find information on our major research projects, and a few individual research projects, and the people who make up our expanding hub led by Emilia Palonen (Political Science) and Juha Herkman (Media & Communication). This is a vibrant and international community with regular visitors and long-term participants from also outside Finland. HEPPsinki is known for its HEPP conferences. HEPP3 conference is going to take place on 15 -17 June. Please, visit our conference website for more information.
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16.08.2022
Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism & Polarisation

Cream always rises to the top: #VisaBanForRussians policy based on the fantasy (jouissance) of oligarks on vacation… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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15.08.2022
Dr. Emilia Palonen, she/hän 💙💛

Finally @HelsinkiHSSH #Datafication team is united with the three postdocs @DayeiOh Feeza Vasudeva @moojan_a and u… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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15.08.2022
Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism & Polarisation

We look forward to collaboration with this team! @SocSciHelsinki and @helsinkiuni Centre Campus faculties. twitter.com/epalonen/statu…

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12.08.2022
Dr. Emilia Palonen, she/hän 💙💛

The Institute where I spent some wonderful months as a predoc has a fellowship call ending in September.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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10.08.2022
D.Rad

The D3.2🇬🇧 report shows ways in which the West #Yorkshire, #Dover, & #London “hotspots” of #radicalization represen… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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24.06.2022
WhiKnow Project

Our work is continuing in ENDURE's Trans-Atlantic context on these themes with @jahapaula twitter.com/tuohmas/status…

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23.06.2022
WhiKnow Project

Recapping some of the work we have done. This is @VSalojarvi article. twitter.com/VSalojarvi/sta…

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21.06.2022
WhiKnow Project

WhiKnow project presentation worked well for us to recap what we really do and have been doing over the 3.5 years.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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21.06.2022
Dayei Oh

grateful to have presented my paper @HEPPsinki #HEPP3 about the discursive construction of false polarisation in th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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17.06.2022
Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism & Polarisation

Now on at #HEPP3 : our featured roundtable showcasing outcomes of our @whi_know project looking at #polarization th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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01.08.2022
Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism & Polarisation

We are glad that our #HEPPster panel on the spatial-temporal bases of #populist and #radicalright #mobilisations wi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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01.08.2022
Now-Time, Us-Space

Only 3 weeks to go until #ecprgc22! @HEPPsinki's @nowtimeusspace crew will be there with a panel on the spatial-tem… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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31.07.2022
Kun He

wrote a short article for @alice_ces to introduce online bottom-up populist' emotional mobilization in China. It m… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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11.07.2022
Julia Leser

SALE! Get our wolf book about far-right populist politics in Germany until the end of the month at half price! See… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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12.07.2022
Sabine Volk

Happening today at 12pm CET: online discussion on “patriotic history” - join us on Zoom! @MemStudiesAssoc… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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