Among other interesting reads about the 2024 European election, don't miss

"How gender and attitudes towards gender and sexuality shaped votes in the 2024 European Parliament elections in France"
by @anjadurovic.bsky.social, Nonna Mayer & @npiolat.bsky.social.

shs.cairn.info/revue-europe...

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( @jcostalopez.bsky.social )

... and by thanking Dr @julianmhoerner.bsky.social for making me adopt the mnemonic lens!

📄 I'll end this post with a recommendation to read Marc Esteve-Del-Valle's and Julia Costa López's article on how Vox mobilised memory online during the 2019 elections - one of these works that you find so well constructed you wish you had written them yourself: doi.org/10.1080/2374... ...

💡 Some further exciting research could probably be done on how political actors (previous legislators included) discursively construct such oppositions and how they bridge them to their core ideological claims (i.e. territorially rooted nativism in the case of Vox).

The 12th of October has to be a day of reparation, not of celebration" (Telegram post, translation my own). Indeed, doesn't really make you want to party.

This is nonetheless a good example of how mnemonic (cultural) cleavages can impact contemporary politics.

🟣 Podemos' leader and former minister Ione Belarra (radical left), on the other end, argues that "Spain shouldn't celebrate as its National Day on the day which reminds of the genocide and pillaging of Latin American peoples. [end on next post]

⚔️ But current political parties have different views on this

🟢 Vox's leader Santiago Abascal (far right) loves that day, and even congratulates "the Spaniards who are proud to be Spaniards" and who "honour their History" (X post, translation my own). You can already feel the 'cultural war' thing.

⚖️ The law n°18/1987, which was adopted by the Socialists and reaffirms the 12th of Oct as the National Day, says that it "symbolizes the historical anniversary on which Spain [...] begins a period of linguistic and cultural projection beyond the boundaries of Europe" - a pretty way of putting it ✨

For those who might not know, this is the day on which Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas in 1492.

But I won't spend too much time defining it, since the most exciting part of this probably is... to see how political actors argue on how to frame it 💘.