Robert Gould is an expert on examination of contemporary discourses of immigration and identity in a range of European countries – such as Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Spain, United Kingdom, France and Switzerland. He also undertakes investigation of the statements in speeches and official documents from Brussels on the same topics. Dr. Gould has also worked on the media and political discourses concerning minorities in Latvia.
Research Interests: Immigration and identity discourses in a range of European countries – Austria, Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom, Spain, France, Switzerland.
| Institution: | Carleton University |
| Fields of Expertise: | Borders Collective Identity Cultural Diversity, Integration and Multiculturalism Ethnicity, Racism, and Xenophobia Gender Politics and Policy Migration Nationalism and Extremism |
| Research groups: | Migration/Citizenship/Borders,RG ECSA-C Migration,The ECSA-C members |
| Email: | robert_gould@carleton.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, French, German |
| Publications: | Commentary: Democratic Dilemmas: Dealing with Alternative für Deutschland and Vox España (February 2020) by Robert Gould. On the website of the Centre for European Studies, Carleton University. “Vox España and Alternative für Deutschland: Propagating the Crisis of National Identity”. Genealogy, Special Issue “New Perspectives on Nationalism in Spain”, 2019, 3(4). Commentary: “Vox España, an Alternative Identity for Spain: Nationalism, Opposition to the European Union and Proposals for a ‘Spexit’” (February 2019) “Culture and Constitution: An Alternative Identity for Germany”, research group Demospain at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, Spain. 2018 “The Borders of Heimat” in Immigration Crises, Borders, and the European Union, ed. Jaroslaw Janczak, Logos Verlag, Berlin: (2017) pp. 39-48. “Moors and Christians: Fear of Islam in Spanish Political Debates” in eds. Douglas Pratt and Rachel Woodlock, Fear of Muslims: International Perspectives on Islamophobia, Springer, 2016. 191-211 Islam returns to Spain: Religious Diversity, Political Discourse and Women’s Rights, in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 26:2 (2015). The Problematic Nexus of Language and Identity Politics: a Cross-Atlantic Perspective; Some concluding remarks, Language and Identity Politics, ed. Christina Späti, Berghahn Books: Oxford and New York (2016). 198-212 Roma Rights and Roma Expulsions in France: Official Discourse and EU Responses, in Critical Social Policy (2014). ‘Alien Religiosity’ in Three Liberal European States, Politics, Religion & Ideology 14:2 (2013) pp. 173-192. Rejection by Implication: Christian Parties, German Identity, and the Power of Discourse, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, special theme issue: Embracing the Other: Conceptualizations, Representations, and Social Practices of [In]Tolerance in German Culture and Literature, 48.3 (2012), pp. 397-412. “Headscarves and National Identity in German” The Maturing of the Multicultural Experiment: European Challenges coming to Canada? York University, March 7 2011. “Words and Pictures can Hurt: Dealing with Anti-Minority Images and Language”, Open Society Foundation, Bratislava, 1 December 2010. “Rhetoric and Roma: Minorities and the Political Right in Europe”, Carleton University, 30 September 2010. “The Rhetoric of the Right on Migrants and Minorities: Banality and Fear”,at the conference Inclusion Unaffordable: The Uncertain Fate of Integration Policies and the Demonisation of Minorities and Migrants in Central and Eastern Europe, University of Latvia, Riga, 17th and 18th November, 2009. “European Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion” Baltic Studies Conference, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania 12th-14th June 12-14 2009 ”Speaking Immigration in a Globalising World: Establishing (Trans)National Identities in the EU. Ministers talking about Immigration”. International Conference, Carleton University, “Transnational Europe: Promise, Paradox, Limits,” October 17-18, 2008, Transnational Europe: Promise, Paradox, Limits |
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