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.
The Rise of the Dutch New Right: An Intellectual History of the Rightward Shift in Dutch Politics
1st Edition
By Merijn Oudenampsen
March 14, 2022
In the past 20 years, a wave of right-wing populist movements has swept over Europe, changing the face of European politics. The Netherlands has been one of the more iconic countries to partake in this shift. Known internationally as an emblem of progressivism and tolerance, the country soon became...
Imagining Far-right Terrorism: Violence, Immigration, and the Nation State in Contemporary Western Europe
1st Edition
By Josefin Graef
February 04, 2022
Imagining Far-right Terrorism explores far-right terrorism as an object of the narrative imagination in contemporary Western Europe. Western European societies are generally reluctant to think of far-right and racist violence as terrorism, but the reasons for this remain little understood. ...
Exposing the Right and Fighting for Democracy: Celebrating Chip Berlet as Journalist and Scholar
1st Edition
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By Pam Chamberlain, Matthew N. Lyons, Abby Scher, Spencer Sunshine
September 29, 2021
This book celebrates the life and work of scholar-activist Chip Berlet. His contributions over four decades have had broad-ranging impacts on activists, independent intellectuals, and academics, from think tanks and social movements to generations of scholars. Berlet’s work over the decades has ...
Contemporary Far-Right Thinkers and the Future of Liberal Democracy
1st Edition
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By A. James McAdams, Alejandro Castrillon
September 27, 2021
This book is the first systematic analysis of the efforts of a broad range of contemporary far-right thinkers to popularize their critiques of liberal-democratic norms and institutions and make their ideas the subjects of sustained political and academic debate. The book focuses on outspoken ...
Global Resurgence of the Right: Conceptual and Regional Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Gisela Pereyra Doval, Gastón Souroujon
July 27, 2021
This book provides a broad-ranging analysis of the global resurgence of right-wing forces in the twenty-first century. These parties, organisations and social movements represent a break from right-wing forces in interwar political history in Europe and the United States, and the right-wing ...
No Free Speech for Fascists: Exploring ‘No Platform’ in History, Law and Politics
1st Edition
By David Renton
June 25, 2021
No Free Speech for Fascists explores the choice of anti-fascist protesters to demand that the opportunities for fascists to speak in public places are rescinded, as a question of history, law, and politics. It explains how the demand to no platform fascists emerged in 1970s Britain, as a limited ...
Radical Right Populism in Germany: AfD, Pegida, and the Identitarian Movement
1st Edition
By Ralf Havertz
March 31, 2021
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of radical right populism in Germany. It gives an overview of historical developments of the phenomenon and its current appearance. It examines three of the main far-right organizations in Germany: the radical right populist party AfD (Alternative for ...
Conservatives and Right Radicals in Interwar Europe
1st Edition
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By Marco Bresciani
December 31, 2020
This book features a broad range of thematic and national case studies which explore the interrelations and confrontations between conservatives and the radical Right in the European and global contexts of the interwar years. It investigates the political, social, cultural, and economic issues that...
Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust: Challenging Histories
1st Edition
By Dan Stone
December 31, 2020
This book contains essays on Fascism, Nazism and the Holocaust by distinguished scholar Professor Dan Stone. It examines issues such as race science and the racial state, Nazi race ideology, slave labour, concentration camps, British reaction to the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust, the search for ...
France’s Purveyors of Hatred: Aspects of the French Extreme Right and its Influence, 1918–1945
1st Edition
By Richard Griffiths
December 31, 2020
This book examines the extreme right in France during the interwar period. It begins by describing the background of the French right before 1914 and then provides commentary and analysis of the broad range of the extra-parliamentary right in interwar France. Organisations such as Action Française ...
Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice
1st Edition
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By Stephen D. Ashe, Joel Busher, Graham Macklin, Aaron Winter
November 18, 2020
Researching the Far Right brings together researchers from across the humanities and social sciences to provide much needed discussion about the methodological, ethical, political, personal, practical and professional issues and challenges that arise when researching far right parties, their ...
British Fascism After the Holocaust: From the Birth of Denial to the Notting Hill Riots 1939–1958
1st Edition
By Joe Mulhall
October 22, 2020
This book explores the policies and ideologies of a number of individuals and groups who attempted to relaunch fascist, antisemitic and racist politics in the wake of World War II and the Holocaust. Despite the leading architects of fascism being dead and the newsreel footage of Jewish bodies ...