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.
Metapolitics, Algorithms and Violence: New Right Activism and Terrorism in the Attention Economy
1st Edition
By Ico Maly
November 01, 2023
Metapolitics, Algorithms and Violence argues that we need a more finegrained approach to understand contemporary far-right violence – an approach that takes language and cultural production in a digital economy seriously. This book underlines the importance of socio-political, economic, historical...
The Blackshirts’ Dictatorship: Armed Squads, Political Violence, and the Consolidation of Mussolini’s Regime
1st Edition
By Matteo Millan
September 25, 2023
On October 1922 Mussolini became head of the Italian government, a situation that would last for twenty years. That power was obtained was largely due to the widespread violence perpetrated by blackshirts throughout Italy (squadristi). Violence however did not end. Old and new blackshirts played a ...
The Dynamics of Right-Wing Extremism within German Society: Escape into Authoritarianism
1st Edition
Edited
By Oliver Decker, Johannes Kiess, Elmar Brähler
September 25, 2023
The Dynamics of Right-Wing Extremism within German Society explores the prevalence of right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany. The book provides a thorough psychosocial and sociological theory of general authoritarian dynamics to explain broader societal attitudes, particularly focusing on ...
The Germanic Tribes, the Gods and the German Far Right Today
1st Edition
By Georg Schuppener
September 25, 2023
The Germanic Tribes, the Gods and the German Far Right Today deals with the question of how right-wing extremists in German-speaking countries adapt and adopt elements from the history, culture, and mythology of the Germanic tribes. It provides the first in-depth study of the adoption of these ...
The Right-Wing Critique of Europe: Nationalist, Sovereignist and Right-Wing Populist Attitudes to the EU
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanna Sondel-Cedarmas, Francesco Berti
September 25, 2023
The Right-Wing Critique of Europe analyses the opposition to the European Union from a variety of right-wing organisations in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. In recent years, opposition to the processes of globalisation and the programme of closer European integration, understood as a threat ...
The Right in the Americas: Distinct Trajectories and Hemispheric Convergences, from the Origins to the Present
1st Edition
Edited
By Julián Castro-Rea, Esther Solano
July 14, 2023
The Right in the Americas discusses the origins, development, and current state of conservative and right-wing movements in ten countries in the Americas. The growth of the right is one of the most important issues of the moment in global politics. Within the context of democracy erosion, ...
Love, Hate and the Leader: A Fascist Childhood
1st Edition
By Trevor Grundy
July 11, 2023
Love, Hate and the Leader is a memoir of growing up in a Fascist family in post-war Britain. For Trevor Grundy and his family, Fascist leader Oswald Mosley was a God and antisemitism was a creed. His father was a Fascist brawler, his mother obsessed with Mosley and Grundy himself dreamed Mosley ...
Global Identitarianism
1st Edition
Edited
By José Pedro Zúquete, Riccardo Marchi
June 02, 2023
Global Identitarianism is about the global spread of the new far-right ideology and social movement Identitarianism. Founded in France in 2003, Identitarianism has inspired a range of groups such as Generation Identity in Europe and the alt-right in America. It has been spread by a far-right ...
An Authoritarian Third Way in the Era of Fascism: Diffusion, Models and Interactions in Europe and Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By António Costa Pinto
May 31, 2023
This book takes a transnational and comparative approach that analyses the process of diffusion of a third way in selected transitions to authoritarianism in Europe and Latin America. When looking at the authoritarian wave of the 1930s, it is not difficult to see how some regimes appeared to ...
The Perennial Conspiracy Theory: Reflections on the History of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
1st Edition
By Michael Hagemeister
May 31, 2023
The Perennial Conspiracy Theory is a collection of essays on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fake document which has created a pernicious antisemitic conspiracy theory. The author analyses the murky origins of this notorious forgery and the contested claims of authorship. He explores the ...
The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, Tatiana Vargas-Maia
May 31, 2023
The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South is the first academic study—adopting an interdisciplinary and international perspective—to offer a comprehensive and groundbreaking framework for understanding the emergence and consolidation of different radical-right movements in Global South ...
Nazi Occultism: Between the SS and Esotericism
1st Edition
By Stéphane François
March 14, 2023
Nazi Occultism provides a serious scholarly study of a topic that is often marred by sensationalism and misinformation. The Morning of the Magicians by Pauwels and Bergier (1960) gave rise to the idea that a secret society with wide powers, the "Thule society", was the hidden and ignored centre of ...