An ideology-critical examination of the cultural heritage policies of the Sweden Democrats

Cultural heritage is increasingly used as a political force to achieve societal goals. This specifically noticeable in the rhetoric of right-wing nationalist parties Europe. and ‘politics past’ have become key tools explicit agendas politicians are using cultural attract disenchanted voters. But how constructed through these processes? The aim this paper explore constructions uses within Swedish party Sweden Democrats (SD). With non-government bills formulated by point departure, illustrates an ideological fantasy reproduced, which based on establishing direct connection between party’s seemingly non-ideological ideology ideas about authentic heritage. latter reflects ‘return’ neorigorism, refers belief objective, given, non-negotiable, phenomenon.