{"id":286,"date":"2026-03-24T09:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/populistpublics\/cutheme-homepage\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:58:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T13:58:52","slug":"cutheme-homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/populistpublics\/","title":{"rendered":"Populist Politics &#8211; Carleton University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/populistpublics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/223\/2026\/03\/newest-layer-banner-768x336.jpg); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Populist Publics\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>This SSHRC supported project,&nbsp;<strong>Populist Publics: Memory, Populism, and Misinformation in the Canadian Social Mediascape<\/strong>, explores how populist narratives enter and circulate in public discourse on social platforms. Over the course of this project, one of our key objectives is to understand how harmful speech about immigration, multiculturalism, gender equality and LGBTQ+ rights are circulated by far-right groups to become normalized as legitimate discourse within the Canadian mediascape. Across the next five years, our research will examine how the deliberate distortion of the historical record is used to build an alternative collective memory as a core feature of populist strategies to undermine minority rights and cultures in liberal democracy. The research will identify the tactics, strategies, and repertoires among such groups and individuals through a multiplatform critical analysis of social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are an interdisciplinary group of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/populistpublics\/people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">researchers<\/a>&nbsp;in history, communication and media studies, and digital humanities at Carleton University involved in this project. Together, we have experience with large-scale digital projects and expertise in the national and transnational literature on hate speech, denial, social media, race and immigration, populism, and data studies, and we are well-positioned in the nation\u2019s capital to bring this research to wider publics in government, education, and civil society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please see the backgrounder by our collaborator Laura Madokoro on hate speech and Canadian multiculturalism on our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/populistpublics\/2020\/hate-speech-3-0\/\">Commentary<\/a>&nbsp;page, and more context about the project&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/populistpublics\/about\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n    \n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--grey ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl bg-cu-black-50 max-w-screen-2xl mx-auto rounded-xl px-6 py-5 md:px-14 md:py-12 md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n                       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