Christian Lamour

Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

Christian Lamour is a senior researcher in the Department of Urban Development and Mobility at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER). He is also a member of the Research Consortium of the Euromedia Ownership Monitor (EurOMo, https://media-ownership.eu), funded by the European Commission. His current research focuses on the mainstreaming of the populist radical right in the European mediated public sphere at different spatial scales, including cities and regions. This research involves a critical analysis of different genres of discourse produced by this political family, as well as an investigation of the interactional dimension of this mainstreaming process, which involves especially established mass media. His research on the mainstreaming of the populist radical right will be pursued from two main perspectives in the coming years, within the framework of two sponsored research projects under the European WEAVE Programme. First, the involvement of the populist radical right in shaping culture-driven policies for the European city (Project R²CULT, in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Germany and the University of Ostrava in Czechia). Second, the positioning of the populist radical right on migration management within a multi-scalar, cross-border regional Europe (Project PECS in cooperation with the University of Vienna in Austria and the Peace Institute in Slovenia).

Publications

Lamour, C. (2026) The circular circulation of a standstill: Obituaries and the radical right mainstreaming by/through the established press. Journal of Media Ethics. Advance online publication, 1-13. http://doi.org/10.1080/23736992.2026.2616597

Lamour, C. (2026). Polyphony for a city in Germany: Actors and enunciators of a European capital of culture in the trenches of the radical right’s Kulturkampf. Cities. Advance online publication, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.106756.

Lamour, C (2026). MAGA & MAGYAR: The strategic use of common sense by Trump and Orbán during their state addresses. European Journal of Political Research. Advance online publication, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100522

Lamour, C. (2025). Negotiating a cultural order for the urban space: The European Capital of Culture initiative as a boundary object mobilized by radical-right cities. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 49(5), 1129–1145. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13343

Lamour, C. (2025). Normalizing the radical right’s discourse on press freedom in the European Parliament: A symbolic interactionist approach to the EMFA debates. Government and Opposition, 60(4), 1367-1386. https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2025.7

Lamour, C. (2025). The patriarch is dead, long live the patriarchy: Berlusconi, women, and the quality press in our Kulturkampf zeitgeist. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 38(3), 401–422. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-025-09509-5

Lamour, C. (2025). Populism and borderlands: The use of spatial objects in the name of the people. In J. W. Scott & T. M. Wilson (Eds.), Routledge handbook of European borderlands (pp. 258–270). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003302018

Lamour, C. (2024). A brave old world: The nuanced combination of state-national retrotopia and trans-national populism by an assembled radical-right family. Futures, 156(103323), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2024.103323

Lamour, C. (2024). Commemoration and radical right-wing populism in European borderlands: A power geometries approach to frontier fascism in Trieste. Journal of Language and Politics, 23(3), 348–368. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.23088.lam

Lamour, C. (2024). Normalizing and mainstreaming the French radical right: Divergences in leadership communication during a summer of inland and borderland tensions. Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, 9(3), 736–759. https://doi.org/10.1017/rep.2024.14

Lamour, C. (2024). Orbán placed in Europe: Ukraine, Russia and the radical-right populist heartland. Geopolitics, 29(4), 1297–1323. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2241825

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