by The Politically In/Sane Collective
Politically In/Sane is the Political Behaviour podcast featuring leading figures in the field. It explores how people think, feel, and act politically — from emotions and identities to algorithms and elections — where psychology meets democracy. Have an idea, a theme you'd want us to explore ? Feel free to contact us at: 📩m.bokobza@lse.ac.uk
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June 10, 2026
<p>Although the European far right has traditionally been associated with conservative gender views, seemingly opposed to feminism, it has increasingly adopted feminist or pro-women’s rights stances. Women politicians have also increasingly been at the forefront of far right parties, notably figures like Giorgia Meloni, Marine le Pen, and Alice Weidel. Recent work in sociology and political science documents the rise of this phenomenon, termed “femonationalism.” So what exactly is this femonationalism? And in what ways does the far right appropriate feminism to further its agenda? Joining us today for this discussion about gender and the far right is Charlene Calderaro, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. Charlene’s work focuses on state feminisms and femonationalism, studying how feminist claims are redirected toward exclusionary ends. Her PhD dissertation is a comparative study of feminist efforts to criminalise street harassment in France and Britain.</p><p>Hosted by Vanessa Chan</p>
June 2, 2026
<p>Explore how micro and nano-targeting are reshaping political campaigns. <strong>Dr. Miriam Sorace</strong> reveals how these hyper-personalized strategies can influence voter decisions, mobilize supporters, and potentially backfire. Discover the ethical dilemmas and risks of disinformation and polarization. Essential listening for anyone interested in the future of political communication and democracy.</p><p><br></p><p>Mentioned paper: "Dissuasion and polarization vs. persuasion in nano-targeting: experimental evidence from climate policy messaging" - https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/vfyph_v1</p><p>Co-authors: <a href="https://osf.io/user/a939v">Miriam Sorace,</a><a href="https://osf.io/user/s6yt5">Thomas S. Robinson,</a><a href="https://osf.io/user/mky59">Simon Hix,</a><a href="https://osf.io/user/wrv62">Joris Frese</a></p>
May 19, 2026
<p>In this episode of Politically Insane, host V. Prakash sits down with Pavithra Suryanarayan, Associate Professor in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics, to unpack one of the most consequential and misunderstood forces in Indian politics: caste. But this isn't a conversation about caste simply as identity or ethnicity. Suryanarayan argues that to truly understand how caste shapes political behavior, you have to understand it as rank -a form of inherited social standing that functions more like aristocracy or racial hierarchy than like religion or tribe.Drawing on her research across India and the post-Civil War American South Suryanarayan explains why threatened elites - from upper-caste groups in India to white coalitions in the Reconstruction-era South - consistently respond to social integration not by competing harder, but by weakening the very state institutions that might level the playing field. She also offers a striking new lens on the BJP's electoral dominance: a welfare strategy built deliberately around direct transfers that deliver material benefits to the poor without ever blurring the caste boundaries that its upper-caste base is most anxious to preserve.</p>
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Politically In/Sane is the Political Behaviour podcast featuring leading figures in the field. It explores how people think, feel, and act politically — from emotions and identities to algorithms and elections — where psychology meets democracy.
Have an idea, a theme you'd want us to explore ? Feel free to contact us at: 📩m.bokobza@lse.ac.uk
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