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.
Trumping Democracy: From Reagan to the Alt-Right
1st Edition
Edited
By Chip Berlet
December 02, 2019
Since 2014, over 80 people have been killed in the United States of America by Right-wing terrorists. In 2016 Donald Trump was elected President of the United States and received substantial support from White nationalists. This book explains the increase in violent White nationalism and Trump’s ...
Vigilantism against Migrants and Minorities
1st Edition
Edited
By Tore Bjørgo, Miroslav Mareš
November 04, 2019
This edited volume traces the rise of far right vigilante movements – some who have been involved in serious violence against minorities, migrants and other vulnerable groups in society, whereas other vigilantes are intimidating but avoid using violence. Written by an international team of ...
The Far Right and the Environment: Politics, Discourse and Communication
1st Edition
Edited
By Bernhard Forchtner
September 18, 2019
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, both the crisis of liberal democracy, as visible in, for example, the rise of far-right actors in Europe and the United States, and environmental crises, from declining biodiversity to climate change, are increasingly in the public spotlight. Whilst ...
Corporatism and Fascism: The Corporatist Wave in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Antonio Costa Pinto
March 21, 2019
This book is the first conceptual and comparative empirical work on the relation between corporatism and dictatorships, bringing both fields under a joint conceptual umbrella. It operationalizes the concepts of social and political corporatism, diffusion and critical junctures and their particular ...
Never Again: Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League 1976-1982
1st Edition
By David Renton
December 13, 2018
By 1976, the National Front had become the fourth largest party in Britain. In a context of national decline, racism and fears that the country was collapsing into social unrest, the Front won 19 per cent of the vote in elections in Leicester and 100,000 votes in London. In response, an ...
Right-Wing Terrorism in the 21st Century: The ‘National Socialist Underground’ and the History of Terror from the Far-Right in Germany
1st Edition
By Daniel Koehler
February 12, 2018
This book is the first comprehensive academic study of German right-wing terrorism since the early 1960s available in the English language. It offers a unique in-depth analysis of German violent, extremist right-wing movements, terrorist events, groups, networks and individuals. In addition, the ...
Tomorrow Belongs to Us: The British Far Right since 1967
1st Edition
Edited
By Nigel Copsey, Matthew Worley
December 14, 2017
This book traces the varied development of the far right in Britain from the formation of the National Front in 1967 to the present day. Experts draw on a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives to provide a rich and detailed account of the evolution of the various strands of the ...
Russia and the Western Far Right: Tango Noir
1st Edition
By Anton Shekhovtsov
September 19, 2017
The growing influence of Russia on the Western far right has been much discussed in the media recently. This book is the first detailed inquiry into what has been a neglected but critically important trend: the growing links between Russian actors and Western far right activists, publicists, ...
Marketing the Third Reich: Persuasion, Packaging and Propaganda
1st Edition
By Nicholas O'Shaughnessy
September 18, 2017
In this fascinating volume, Nicholas O’Shaughnessy elucidates the phenomenon of the Nazi propaganda machine via the perspective of consumer marketing, conceptualising the Reich as a product campaign. Building on his acclaimed Selling Hitler (2016), he uses marketing scholarship to show how ...
Understanding Racist Activism: Theory, Methods, and Research
1st Edition
By Kathleen M. Blee
July 26, 2017
White supremacist groups are highly secretive, so their public propaganda tells us little about their operations or the people they attract. To understand the world of organized racism it is necessary to study it from the inside by talking to their members and observing their groups. Doing so ...
Anti-Fascism in Britain
2nd Edition
By Nigel Copsey
October 21, 2016
Anti-fascism has long been one of the most active and dynamic areas of radical protest and direct action. Yet it is an area of struggle and popular resistance that remains largely unexplored by historians, sociologists and political scientists. Fully revised and updated from its earlier edition, ...
What Did You Do During the War?: The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45
1st Edition
By Richard Griffiths
October 04, 2016
This book is a sequel to Richard Griffiths’s two highly successful previous books on the British pro-Nazi Right, Fellow Travellers of the Right: British Enthusiasts for Nazi Germany 1933-39 and Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British Anti-Semitism 1939-1940. It follows the ...