Geoscientific colloquium on June 3rd - "Bavaria is the gateway to paradise"

In the Geosciences Colloquium of the Department of Geosciences at TU Dresden, Peter Rothe and Michael Krell, both Research Associates at the Chair of Human Geography, will give a public lecture from 4:45 pm in lecture hall HÜL/S186 in the Hülße Building at TU Dresden. It will deal with the following topic:

The federal political debate has been characterized by polemical and sharp discursive attacks between the parties at least since the so-called "summer of migration" in 2015. The Bavarian CSU in particular has taken on a special role among the democratic parties with its high level of linguistic aggression, mobilizing primarily against the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen party during the "traffic light" government period. In doing so, it repeatedly uses specific discursive references to spaces to justify or illustrate its narratives. We examine these discursive productions of space through an analysis of the CSU party leaders' Ash Wednesday speeches between 2015 and 2025. We show how the CSU uses the discursive means of spatial productions to construct its own political identity and that of others, and how it mobilizes through these specific spatial invocations. Analytically, we propose to view this discursive place-making as intertwined with the mobilization of affects that function as a populist mobilization strategy.

The lecture is based on a published article that can be downloaded here for free.