Between party politics and local identification: political responses to a rural protest

How do politicians make sense of situations in which they may find themselves caught up in between opposing loyalties, for example, party loyalty on the one hand and loyalty to neighbours and friends or ideological convictions on the other? Based on interviews about a rural occupation in protest of...

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Veröffentlicht in:Space & polity 2021-01, Vol.25 (1), p.97-111
Hauptverfasser: Nilsson, Bo, Lundgren, Anna Sofia
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:How do politicians make sense of situations in which they may find themselves caught up in between opposing loyalties, for example, party loyalty on the one hand and loyalty to neighbours and friends or ideological convictions on the other? Based on interviews about a rural occupation in protest of a political decision in a small community in Northern Sweden, this paper explores the approaches of local politicians to the protest and to the people involved in it. The results show how discourses of geographic space and party-political loyalty structured the negotiated responsibility for the situation, affected the politicians' descriptions of the occupation as such, and made support for the protest become more or less difficult.
ISSN:1356-2576
1470-1235
1470-1235
DOI:10.1080/13562576.2021.1879634