Articles by Iris B. Segers

December 1, 2023

Landslide victory for Geert Wilders – but can he form a government?

Iris B. Segers

The 2023 Dutch general election has given Geert Wilders’ far-right Party for Freedom a landslide victory. Iris Beau Segers argues that centre-right parties have contributed to the mainstreaming of Wilders’ far-right views and are now trapped in a dance over the formation of a new government

Iris B. Segers

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Gender Research (STK), and Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX), University of Oslo

Iris's research focuses on far-right protest mobilisation, anti-gender mobilisation, gender and extremism, and the politics of knowledge.

Her background is in media studies and sociology of culture.

She acquired her PhD in Media and Communication at the University of Oslo in 2020.

Her current postdoctoral project explores the ways in which far-right actors in North-Western Europe mobilise against gender equality via avenues of knowledge production and education.

Mobilization against Asylum Seekers in Contemporary Urban Spaces: Not in Our Backyard
Routledge, 2022
Part of the Routledge Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest and Culture

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