Scholarship has underlined how radical right-wing populism (RRWP)
emphasizes border control aiming to protect the “people”. Although
increasing attention is being paid to the discursive dimensions of border
construction, the complexity of the phenomenon suggests the need for
further analysis in an interdisciplinary perspective and with an emphasis on
the geometry of spatial powers (Massey 1999, 2005). Understanding power
dynamics in space is all the more important now that radical right-wing
populism (RRWP) is becoming a key political phenomenon. The use of the
border in right-wing populist narratives draws on the representation of
power struggles in space concerning the management of flows (people,
goods, services, capital, ideas, values, etc.). The scope of the introduction to
this special issue is to address the connection between radical right-wing
populism, borders, and spaces of power, and to present the research articles
investigating this link through a series of different case studies.