Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
About the Book Series
This book series focuses upon national, transnational and global manifestations of fascist, far right and right-wing politics primarily within a historical context but also drawing on insights and approaches from other disciplinary perspectives. Its scope also includes anti-fascism, radical-right populism, extreme-right violence and terrorism, cultural manifestations of the far right, and points of convergence and exchange with the mainstream and traditional right.
Julius Evola and the Radical Right: Spiritual Racism from Fascist Italy to the New Age
1st Edition
By Peter Staudenmaier
July 23, 2026
Julius Evola and the Radical Right examines the ideas and influence of Italian thinker Julius Evola (1898–1974), an increasingly popular author within the far right and the esoteric milieu alike. An iconic figure for successive generations of the radical right, Evola is both revered and reviled, ...
Global Far-Right Ecologies: Trends, Issues and Responses
1st Edition
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By Lise Benoist, George Edwards, Bernhard Forchtner, Balša Lubarda, Sonja Pietiläinen, Kjell Vowles
July 17, 2026
This book explores far-right authoritarian and exclusionary interpretations of environmental crises that are gaining traction globally. While research on the political ecology of the far right has grown substantially over the last decade, it has largely focused on ‘Western’, especially European, ...
The Anti-Fascist Novel in Britain 1923–2023: 12 Authors Take Sides
1st Edition
By David Renton
July 07, 2026
This book explores the anti-fascist novel in Britain: its origins in activists' experience, its solutions to questions of how to organise. Some of the works Renton discusses are classics of twentieth-century literature including Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Kazuo Ishiguro’s The ...
The Evolving Radical Right in the Early Twenty-First Century: Liberty Under Siege
1st Edition
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By Ken Fuchsman, Brigitte Demeure
June 18, 2026
This book investigates the dynamics of expansion and normalization of the radical right in the early twenty-first century. The radical right's popularity with voters dramatically increased, it even enabled twice the election of Trump as a chief executive in the USA. The main focus of this volume is...
The Global Impact of the March on Rome
1st Edition
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By Giulia Albanese, Filippo Focardi, Matteo Millan, Marco Mondini
April 08, 2026
This comprehensive collection of chapters provides a nuanced and multifaceted analysis of the global impact of the March on Rome, offering valuable insights into the spread and adaptation of Fascist ideologies in different cultural and political contexts beyond Italy in the 1920s and 1930s. ...
Kahanism and the Algorithmic Interpretation of History
1st Edition
By Neil Bar
March 30, 2026
This book offers a systematic analysis of the ideology and enduring influence of Rabbi Meir Kahane in Israel, the American-born leader and thinker who rose to become one of the most radical far-right figures ever to hold political power in Israel. It unveils the core of his doctrinal structure: the...
Croatian Nationalist Groups in Australia 1949–1972: Friends in High Places
1st Edition
By Alexander Lee
February 25, 2026
Between 1949 and 1972, Australia became the largest centre of violent Croatian nationalism outside of Europe. This book reveals how radical Croatian groups – responsible for bombings, armed incursions, and political violence across two continents – were allowed to proliferate, thanks to the ...
The Far Right and the Media: International Trends and Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Imogen Richards
January 28, 2026
This book examines how far-right politics and news media shape one another, exposing, contesting, and at times inadvertently legitimising white supremacist, violent misogynist, and other far-right ideas. It situates these dynamics within the economic and structural transformations associated with ...
Postwar Mnemonic Anti-Fascism: From the Spanish Question to the Nordic Committees against the Greek Junta, 1946–1974
1st Edition
By Pontus Järvstad
December 30, 2025
This book deals with the transnational activities and political agitation of a Nordic social movement that was created to fight the junta, which seized power in a military coup in Greece in 1967. The main focus is on the anti-fascist aspects of the opposition movement. It is shown that the ...
Fascist Legacies and the New Right Across the Atlantic: Back to the Future
1st Edition
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By Gabriela de Lima Grecco
December 16, 2025
This volume analyzes the historical continuities and transformations of fascist movements across Ibero-America, Europe, and the United States from the twentieth century to the twenty-first century. By examining political ideologies, networks, and transnational influences, the chapters explore how ...
The Mnemonic Warriors of the European Far Right: Memory Politics, Laws, Narratives
1st Edition
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By Joanna Sondel-Cedarmas, Grzegorz Pożarlik
December 16, 2025
The Mnemonic Warriors of the European Far Right is a comparative analysis of the politics and policy of memory as seen through the conceptual lens of Pierre Nora’s lieux de mémoire. More specifically, the research in this volume is carried out through the prism of national-populist and ...
Showing Salazarism: A Cultural History of the Early Estado Novo through Political Exhibitions
1st Edition
By Annarita Gori
November 28, 2025
Drawing on Jeffrey Schnapp’s conceptual framework, this book examines political exhibitions organised by the Portuguese Estado Novo between 1934 and 1940 as spaces where regimes manipulated national history to legitimise their authority, crafting myths of origin and narratives of national pride. ...