Mole, Richard C. M.; Golec de Zavala, Agnieszka and Adraq, Mahmut Murat. 2021. Homophobia and national collective narcissism in populist Poland. European Journal of Sociology, 62(1), pp. 37-70. ISSN 0003-9756 [Article]

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Opposition to sexual minority rights in Poland is among the highest in the EU. Populist political actors in the country repeatedly scapegoat gays and lesbians, presenting them as a threat to the Polish nation and its shared norms and values, particularly those derived from religion. Building upon previous research which shows how discourse constructing homosexuality as a threat to the nation has been used by social and political actors to legitimize homophobic rhetoric and behaviour, our paper shows whether nationalism—understood here as national collective narcissism—predicts prejudice towards gays and lesbians at the level of individual beliefs.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003975621000072
Additional Information:	This article has been published in a revised form in European Journal of Sociology [http://doi.org/10.1017/S0003975621000072]. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND licence. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed. © European Journal of Sociology 2021. This project was funded by the Noble Foundation’s Programme on Modern Poland [http://pomp.com.pl/en]. The project ran from September 2018 to October 2019.
Keywords:	collective narcissism, homophobia, Poland, nationalism, populism
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Dates:	Date Event 17 September 2021 Published Online 2021 Published
Item ID:	32755
Date Deposited:	08 Dec 2022 10:16
Last Modified:	08 Dec 2022 10:36
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32755

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