Author

Benjamin De Cleen

Assistant prof, coordinator of English-language master on Journalism and Media in Europe at VUB, director of research centre DESIRE.

Benjamin De Cleen is an assistant professor at the VUB Communication Studies Department where he is the coordinator of the English-language master on Journalism and Media in Europe. His research is situated within critical discourse studies, and has mainly been focused on radical right rhetoric, and on the discourse-theoretical conceptualization of populism, nationalism and conservatism.

Benjamin is the international chair of the Centre for Democracy, Signification and Resistance, an international joint research group that brings together people from the VUB, University of Ljubljana, University of Essex, Uppsala University, and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. 

Radical right, populism, nationalism, discourse theory, discourse analysis,