dr Gwenaëlle Bauvois, Visiting Fellowship 2024/25

Biography

Gwenaëlle Bauvois holds a PhD in Sociology and works as a researcher at the University of Helsinki.

Gwenaëlle Bauvois currently works in the Horizon research consortium ‘Analysis and Responses to Extremist Narratives’ (ARENAS). This four-year project aims to characterise, measure, and understand the role of extremist narratives that have an impact on the political and social spheres. As part of the Arenas project, she co-wrote the report Historical roots of extremist narratives in Europe (2024) focusing on anti-gender narratives.

Her research focuses on topics such as conspiracy theories, social media and disinformation, post-truth politics, as well as anti-immigration and anti-gender movements.

Her work has been published internationally, including in Emotions and Society, Sociological Inquiry, and Discourse, Context & Media. She also teaches master’s courses on populist mobilization, media, and polarization at the University of Helsinki.

Visiting Fellowship March 17 – April 1

Motivation

The primary aim of this fellowship is to strengthen collaborative ties with colleagues at the Institute of Contemporary History. I have had the pleasure to work with them within the framework of the ARENAS project on the historical roots of extremist narrative in Europe and currently on the circulation of extremist narratives in Europe in the political sphere.

This fellowship presents a unique opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of Slovenia’s historical and societal context, enriching our collective research efforts.

I am truly grateful for the chance to collaborate with esteemed experts in political and social history and to further enrich my multidisciplinary approach.

Selected publications

Bauvois, G., & Jareño Gila, C. (2024). Historical roots of anti-gender narratives in Europe. In S. Forti (Ed.), Historical roots of extremist narratives in Europe. Zenedo https://zenodo.org/records/14025605

Bauvois, G., & Pyrhönen, N. (2024). Kansainvälisen muuttoliikkeen kriisit ja kriisikeskustelut: Poliittisten vaikuttajien muuttuva rooli maahanmuutto- ja kotoutumiskeskustelussa. In T. A. Renvik & M. Säävälä (Eds.), Kotoutumisen kokonaiskatsaus 2023. Työ- ja elinkeinoministeriö. https://julkaisut.valtioneuvosto.fi/handle/10024/165441

Bauvois, G., Pyrhönen, N., & Keskinen, S. (2023). Media and migration in the age of post-truth politics. Jean Monnet policy brief. https://ams.hi.is/en/publication/108/

Bauvois, G., & Pyrhönen, N. (2022). In search of unexpected allies? Radical right remediation of ‘the 2015 refugee crisis’ on social media. In Europe in the age of post-truth politics: Populism, disinformation, and the public sphere. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-13694-8

Bauvois, G., Pyrhönen, N., & Pyysiäinen, J. (2022). Underdogs shepherding the flock—Discursive outgrouping of the internal enemy in action. In The far-right discourse of multiculturalism in intergroup interactions: A critical discursive perspective. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-89066-7_3

Kazlauskaitė, R., Pyrhönen, N., & Bauvois, G. (2022). Mediating shame and pride: Countermedia coverage of Independence Day in Poland and the US. Emotions and Society. https://doi.org/10.1332/263169021X16364177574612

Pyrhönen, N., Bauvois, G., & Rosenström, S. (2021). Soldiers of Odin as peril or protection? Hybrid mediatization of oppositional framings on anti-immigration responses to the ‘refugee crisis’. Nordiques. https://journals.openedition.org/nordiques/1464

Pyrhönen, N., & Bauvois, G. (2019). Conspiracies beyond fake news: Producing reinformation on presidential elections in the transnational hybrid media system. Sociological Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12339

Ylä-Anttila, T., Bauvois, G., & Pyrhönen, N. (2019). Politicization of migration in the countermedia style: A computational and qualitative analysis of populist discourse. Discourse, Context & Media. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211695819301229