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The UNPOP Research exposition ‘Emotions, Narratives and Identities in Politics, Populism and Democracy’ futures six posters of the research carried on within the project. It was launched in the homonymous International Colloquium organised in Coimbra from 23 to 26 January 2024. The poster presented are:

• Emotion Narrative Theory (Cristiano Gianolla)
• Exclusionary Populist Attitudes Scale: Construction and psychometric validation in Portugal and Italy (Lisete Mónico, Eduardo Tamaki, and Cristiano Gianolla)
• Ideology vs Populism in the Emotion Narratives of the Portuguese Left (Manuel João Cruz; Fabiana Xavier; Luciana Sotero; Lisete Mónico; Cristiano Gianolla)
• Populism, Narratives and Emotions: A systematic review and meta-analysis (Izabel Weber, Teresa Oliveira, Lisete Mónico and Cristiano Gianolla)
• Understanding populist far-right anti-immigration and anti-gender stances beyond the paradigm of gender as ‘a symbolic glue’: Giorgia Meloni’s modern motherhood, neo-Catholicism, and reproductive racism (Maria Elena Indelicato and Maíra Magalhães Lopes)
• ‘Merit’ vs ‘participation’ in the religious emotion narrative of the far right (Giovanni Allegretti, Lisete Mónico and Cristiano Gianolla)

The research project UNPOP - UNpacking POPulism: Comparing the formation of emotion narratives and their effects on political behaviour (http://doi.org/10.54499/PTDC/CPO-CPO/3850/2020) Funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/CPO-CPO/3850/2020), is coordinated at CES by Cristiano Gianolla and at CINEICC by Lisete Mónico. It seeks to unravel the conditions enabling and favouring right-wing populist politics, engaging with the consensual and yet understudied assumption that the mobilisation of emotions is a fundamental cause. In order to unpack this constitutive dimension of populist politics, UNPOP advances and applies a mixed methodology and develops a comparative research plan focusing on ‘EMOTION NARRATIVES’. These are frames in which both positive and negative emotions are mobilised to stimulate political behaviour, in order to define both ingroup and outgroup characteristics.