Gwenaëlle Bauvois
Gwenaëlle Bauvois is a sociologist based at the University of Helsinki studying the discursive and digital dimensions of right-wing populism, extremist and far-right movements, conspiracy theories, counter-media, and post-truth politics. Her most current research focuses on far-right feminism and femonationalism in France and transnationally.
She currently contributes to the EU-funded Horizon Europe project ARENAS (Analysis and Responses to Extremist Narratives), which analyses the evolution and societal impact of extremist narratives across Europe.
She is also an expert in the EU Knowledge Hub on Preventation of Radicalisation, Thematic Panel 1: Ideologies and Conspiracy Narratives, supporting European efforts to understand and prevent radicalisation.
She is affiliated to HEPP-Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation,
RADIA-Finnish Knowledge Center for the prevention of violent radicalisation and extremism, HELSUS and CEREN-Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism.
Dr Bauvois has participated in the Jean Monnet Network project on Post-Truth Politics, Nationalism and the (De)Legitimation of European Integration, fostering European research collaboration on populism, democracy, and disinformation.
She has held visiting research positions at Stanford University – to study conspiracy talk in contemporary USA – and the Australian National University. She regularly engages with media and public debates on the far right, populism, extremism, and conspiracy narratives across Europe and internationally, and contributes to public platforms such as The Conversation.
Selected publications:
– Gwenaëlle Bauvois & Claudia Jareño Gila (2024) Historical roots of extremist narratives in Europe. In Forti, S. Historical roots of extremist narratives in Europe. https://zenodo.org/records/14025605
– Gwenaëlle Bauvois & Niko Pyrhönen (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
– Gwenaëlle Bauvois, Niko Pyrhönen & Suvi Keskinen (2023) Media and Migration in the Age of Post Truth Politics, Jean Monnet policy brief, https://ams.hi.is/en/publication/108/
– Gwenaëlle Bauvois & Niko Pyrhönen (2022) In Search for 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
– Gwenaëlle Bauvois, Niko Pyrhönen & Jarkko Pyysiäinen (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
– Ruta Kazlauskaitė, Niko Pyrhönen & Gwenaëlle Bauvois (2022), Mediating shame and pride: countermedia coverage of Independence Day in Poland and the US, Emotions and Society. https://doi.org/10.1332/263169021X16364177574612
– Niko Pyrhönen, Gwenaëlle Bauvois & Saga Rosenström (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
– Niko Pyrhönen & Gwenaëlle Bauvois, Conspiracies beyond Fake News (2019). Produsing Reinformation on Presidential Elections in the Transnational Hybrid Media System, Sociological Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12339
– Tuukka Ylä-Anttila, Gwenaëlle Bauvois & Niko Pyrhönen (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