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.
Giving Credit to Dictatorship: Authoritarian Regimes and Financial Capitalism in Europe during the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Valerio Torreggiani, José Luís Cardoso
December 31, 2024
This edited volume explores the interplay between political, economic, and financial development in twentieth-century European authoritarian regimes. The book features case studies that explore the impact of domestic and international finance on the rise, stabilization, and decline of various ...
Importing Fascism: The Italian Community’s Fascist Experience in Interwar Scotland
1st Edition
By Remigio Petrocelli
December 31, 2024
Importing Fascism analyses the mechanisms of the Italian fascist regime in incorporating the Italian-Scottish diaspora into their nation- and fascism-building project via its transnational efforts between the rise of fascism in 1922 and Italy’s declaration of war on Britain in June 1940. Drawing ...
The Canadian Far-Right and Conspiracy Theories
1st Edition
By Ahmed Al-Rawi, Carmen Celestini, Nicole K. Stewart, Joseph M. Nicolaï, Nathan Worku
December 31, 2024
This book provides an empirical analysis, mapping, and assessment of Canadian right‑wing extremist (RWE) groups and their conspiracy theories. While the majority of studies on RWE groups focus on American and European actors, this book critically examines conspiracies disseminated by Canadian ...
Far-Right Ecologism: Environmental Politics and the Far Right in Hungary and Poland
1st Edition
By Balša Lubarda
December 18, 2024
Far-Right Ecologism explains how the ongoing mainstreaming of the far right has prompted greater engagement with a range of topics, including the environment. Behind the façade of vote-winning strategies, the far right has provided a substantive ideological engagement with the natural environment. ...
Memory in Hungarian Fascism: A Cultural History
1st Edition
By Zoltán Kékesi
December 18, 2024
Memory in Hungarian Fascism: A Cultural History argues that fascist memory had a key role in the historical formation and later return of fascism. Tracing the trajectory of a perennial figure of fascist memory, the cult of Eszter Sólymosi, from interwar Hungary through the Cold War West to ...
The Right and the Nation: Transnational Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Toni Morant i Ariño, Julián Sanz, Ismael Saz
December 18, 2024
This book explores the influence of right-wing political cultures (including conservatism, political Catholicism, reactionary nationalism and fascism) on nation-building processes and the creation of national identities in modern times. The chapters extend the focus of analysis across the ...
Frege and Fascism
1st Edition
By Stephen D'Arcy
December 12, 2024
This book is the first to examine in minutiae the politics of Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), and his connections with various traditions of far-right and fascist thought. Frege was a philosopher of logic, language, and mathematics. But he also believed that one could reconcile the politics of the far ...
The Politics of Memory in the Italian Populist Radical Right: From Mare Nostrum to Mare Vostrum
1st Edition
By Marianna Griffini
November 28, 2024
The Politics of Memory in the Italian Populist Radical Right examines the role of colonial memory in the contemporary Italian populist radical right, which includes the Lega and Fratelli d’Italia (FdI). The book originally adopts postcolonialism as an analytical framework to critically examine ...
The Transnational Making of Italian Neofascism
1st Edition
By Matteo Albanese
November 26, 2024
This book delves into the evolution of Italian neo-fascism from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. It examines the transition from historical fascism to neo-fascism, highlighting the survival and adaptation of fascist ideologies within democratic frameworks. This book explores the formation ...
Imagining Alternative Worlds: Far-Right Fiction and the Power of Cultural Imaginaries
1st Edition
By Christoffer Kølvraa, Bernhard Forchtner
November 11, 2024
Imagining Alternative Worlds explores how the far right employs fictionality as a powerful political tool in the 21st century. It does so by examining the far right’s own cultural production and commentary through a large collection of its novels, novellas, short stories, and film reviews, ...
The Metaphysics of Race: Science and Faith in the Nazi Worldview
1st Edition
By Amit Varshizky
November 04, 2024
This book seeks to reframe debates on the conflicting scientific and spiritual traditions that underpinned the Nazi worldview, showing how despite the multitude of tensions and rivals among its adherents, it provided a coherent conceptual grid and possessed its own philosophical consistency. ...
Inside the Black Box of 'White Backlash': Letters of Support to Enoch Powell (1968-1969)
1st Edition
By Olivier Esteves
August 26, 2024
Inside the Black Box of ‘White Backlash’ researches the contents of the letters of support sent to British politician Enoch Powell in the wake of his so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech of April 20, 1968. Never has a politician received so much written support in so short a time. This book takes a ...