Brigitte Mral – författare

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Right-wing populist movements and related political parties are gaining ground in many EU member states. This unique, interdisciplinary book provides an overall picture of the dynamics and development of these parties across Europe and beyond. Combining theory with in-depth case studies, it offers a comparative analysis of the policies and rhetoric of existing and emerging parties including the British BNP, the Hungarian Jobbik and the Danish Folkeparti. The case studies qualitatively and quantitatively analyse right-wing populist groups in the following countries: Austria, Germany, Britain, France, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Hungary, Belgium, Ukraine, Estonia, and Latvia, with one essay exclusively focused on the US. This timely and socially relevant collection is essential reading for scholars, students and practitioners wanting to understand the recent rise of populist right wing parties at local, countrywide and regional levels.

The study of women's rhetoric is a study of democracy. Since women's voices have been suppressed for a long time and have had many barriers to break through, women have often developed advanced techniques to enable efficiency. This book provides historical, theoretical and practical analyses about women as deliberators, thus promoting a more open and flexible rhetorical theory that does not exclude everything that does not fit into the white, male, agonistic pattern for public argumentation and popular deliberation. Womens Rhetoric is a result of a research collaboration initiated by Örebro University and the Centre for Rhetoric Studies at Cape Town University, project Womens Rhetoric in South Africa and Sweden. A Comparative Study in Democratic Deliberation.

Rhetorica Scandinavica has functioned as a sower of academic seeds. As the journal has grown, rhetoric courses and programmes have multiplied across Scandinavia. The journal is the major source of nativelanguage literature in the field, and articles frequently find a place on curricula. Thus, Rhetorica Scandinavica has had a significant impact on the study of rhetoric in the Scandinavian countries. The 18 articles in this book are just a few highlights from 13 years – a total of over 225 peer-reviewed articles – of Rhetorica Scandinavica publications. They have been chosen to introduce some aspects of the study of rhetoric as it is performed in Scandinavia to a readership that is un-familiar with the three Scandinavian languages.

Kvinnor har i alla tider fått skapa sig utrymme för att göra sin röst hörd. Brigitte Mral lyfter i Talande kvinnor fram några av historiens främsta kvinnliga talare, deras liv och retorik. Vi får möta kvinnorna genom deras egna ord i utdrag ur deras tal och texter. Från antikens retoriker Aspasia, medeltidens nunnor som Heliga Birgitta, renässansens Elisabeth I och drottning Kristina, till 1800-talets amerikanska människorättskämpar och svenska politiska agitatorer. Genom att betona sin jungfrulighet, tala som en man eller ödmjukt hänvisa till en högre makt har de fått gehör för sina budskap. De retoriska strategierna har sett olika ut liksom tiden de levde i och kvinnorna. Kvinnor vars mod och retoriska förmåga vi kan fortsätta att fascineras och inspireras av även idag.