Aesthetics of Polarization: The Role of Conversion Narratives in Polarized Debates
Name of applicant
Anita Wohlmann
Title
Associate Professor
Institution
University of Southern Denmark
Amount
DKK 21,625
Year
2025
Type of grant
Field Trips / Research Stays < 100,000
Summary
How do stakeholders in highly polarized debates about abortion and gun rights use cultural forms of expression (e.g., the conversion memoir) to explain changes in their radical positions? While in residence at the University of East Anglia, I will work with Prof. Alan Finlayson, an expert on reactionary digital politics and the aesthetics of polarized discourses, to complete two new articles.