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.
Christian Nationalism and Anticommunism in Twentieth-Century South Africa
1st Edition
By Ruhan Fourie
July 31, 2025
This book investigates Afrikaner anticommunism in South Africa in the twentieth century, focusing on the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC). Following contemporary understandings of anticommunism as a fluid ideological stance, it demonstrates that the deeply held anticommunist convictions of ordinary ...
Alt-Education: Gender, Knowledge and Far-right Metapolitics
1st Edition
By Catherine Tebaldi
July 25, 2025
Alt-Education looks at the stories the right tells about schools: a fight between an evil, indoctrinating government and a far-right freethinking truth warrior, between a frigid cultural Marxist teacher and a loving Christian mother. This book explores the link between education, gender, and ...
QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement
1st Edition
By Marc-André Argentino
July 18, 2025
This book explores the QAnon movement by examining its history, fluctuations, and evolution, stemming from the likelihood of multiple users behind the “Q” account, as well as from the changes in the sociopolitical landscape since the creation of the movement. It frames QAnon as a lived religion and...
National Socialist Cultural Diplomacy: Culture, Politics, and Comradeship at the German-Nordic Writers’ House, 1934–1939
1st Edition
By Frederik Forrai Ørskov
June 30, 2025
National Socialist Cultural Diplomacy provides the first comprehensive account of the German-Nordic Writers’ House. From 1934 to 1939, young Scandinavian and Finnish writers spent summers at a seaside villa in Travemünde, mingling with representatives of the “new German literature,” to enjoy beach ...
Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists on Emigration: Its Formation and Transnational Connections in 1929–1934
1st Edition
By Magdalena Gibiec
June 27, 2025
This book describes the formation, transnational activities and inner workings of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) in exile. Made possible thanks to an in-depth examination of previously unutilised correspondence relating to the OUN, this title examines the organisation during the ...
Antiliberal Internationalism in the Twentieth Century: Beyond Left and Right?
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthijs Lok, Marjet Brolsma, Robin de Bruin, Stefan Couperus, Rachel McElroy White
May 21, 2025
This book shows how antiliberal discourse, thought, and mobilization have, in defiance of nationalist aims, been significantly shaped and determined in the international sphere, as new collaborations position themselves against the liberal order established after the fall of the Berlin Wall. ...
Nation, Race, Religion: A Story of Sweden’s Spiritual Vikings
1st Edition
By Tomas Poletti Lundström
May 10, 2025
In this book, Tomas Poletti Lundström unveils how religion is tightly woven into the political fabric of radical nationalism. He offers the first comprehensive historical analysis of the Sweden Democrats while also providing an in-depth examination of the Nordic Resistance Movement, Swedish ...
Anti-Fascism and Ethnic Minorities: History and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Anders Ahlbäck, Kasper Braskén
May 06, 2025
Anti-Fascism and Ethnic Minorities explores how, and to what extent, fascist ultranationalism elicited an anti-fascist response among ethnic minority communities in Eastern and Central Europe. The edited volume analyses how identities related to class, ethnicity, gender and political ...
Argentina’s Right-Wing Universe During the Democratic Period (1983–2023): Processes, Actors and Issues
1st Edition
Edited
By Gisela Pereyra Doval, Gastón Souroujon
May 06, 2025
Argentina’s Right-Wing Universe During the Democratic Period provides a comprehensive analysis of the course of right-wing politics in the country in the last 40 years. In 1983, after the fall of a violent military regime, Argentina began the longest period of democratic stability in its history—40...
Global Heating and the Australian Far Right
1st Edition
By Imogen Richards, Gearóid Brinn, Callum Jones
May 06, 2025
Global Heating and the Australian Far Right examines the environmental politics of far-right actors and movements in Australia, exploring their broader political context and responses to climate change. The book traces the development of far-right pseudo-environmentalism and territorial politics, ...
José Antonio Primo de Rivera in Latin America: The Pursuit of a Fascist Usable Past during the Cold War (1939–1989)
1st Edition
By Daniel Gunnar Kressel
March 31, 2025
This book explores a distinctive neo-fascist movement that emerged in Latin America and Spain during the Cold War. At times self-labeled “Jose Antonians,” the book’s protagonists evoked the memory and ideology of José Antonio Primo de Rivera. The author first elucidates who this Spanish fascist was...
Building Dictatorships under Axis Rule: War, Military Occupation and Political Regimes
1st Edition
Edited
By António Costa Pinto, Goffredo Adinolfi
March 06, 2025
This book offers a broad comparative perspective on regime building under Axis rule during the Second World War, exploring case studies in Europe and Asia. Military occupation represents the highest degree of political, social and economic control over an occupied state and its society. This ...