Radical Right During Crisis

CARR Yearbook 2020/2021

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• Publisher: ibidem
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9783838275765
• Edition: 0

While the COVID-19 pandemic overshadowed all else and would quickly have a lasting impact on our daily lives, other events related to the radical right in 2020 soon surfaced. From terrorist attacks in Germany and India to anti-mask protests across the U.S. and Europe, radical right violence escalated in the midst of circulating conspiracy theories and disinformation. The yearbook draws upon insightful analyses from an international network of scholars, policymakers, and practitioners who explore the dynamics and impact of the radical right. It explores a wide range of topics including reflections on authoritarianism and fascism, the role of ideology and (counter-)intellectuals, and radical-right responses to the pandemic and calls for police reform in the height of the Black Lives Matter protests. It ends with important assessments on best approaches towards countering the radical right, both online and offline. This timely overview provides a broad examination of the global radical right in 2020, which will be useful for scholars, students, policymakers, journalists, and the public.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Authoritarianism Revisited
• The Psychology of a Fascist Leader: Hitler’s “Blond Beast” Reinhard Heydrich
• Hegel and Fascism
• The ‘Silent Majority’: Populist Cliché or Warning?
• How Fascists Have Used Panics to Consolidate Power
• Can the Radical Right’s Reductionist Narrative Withstand Real-World Complexity?
• Alternative Epistemologies of the Radical Right: How Grand Narratives and the Quest for Truth Offer Recognition and a Sense of Belonging
• Radical Right Voters and Democratic Support
• Nationalism and Memory
• Grieving Greater Hungary: Trianon, Orbán, and the Hungarian Radical Right
• An “Ambivalent Day”: How the AfD Attempts to Re-frame the 8th May as Day to Commemorate German Victimhood
• Putin’s Amendments to Russia’s Constitution Sparks Debate About Russian Nationalism
• Eco-fascism “Proper”: The Curious Case of Greenline Front
• Terrorism and Political Violence
• A New Wave of Right-Wing Terrorism
• Germany’s Terrorist Attack: Migrant Communities Have Lost Trust
• Far-Right Terrorism is Global, But Coverage is Not: Hindu Nationalist Violence in India
• In Germany, Anti-semitism on Social Media Can Be Linked to Offline Violence
• Does Norway Have a Neo-Nazi Terrorist Problem?
• Canada Filed the First Incel Terrorism Charge. How Do We Combat This Threat?
• The COVID-19 Pandemic
• COVID-19 Could Be a Harbinger of Authoritarianism
• Anti-government Ideology in the Times of COVID-19
• The Radical Right is Weaponizing COVID-19 Online
• Under Lockdown, Germany’s PEGIDA Goes to YouTube
• Europe’s Far-Right Fails to Capitalize on COVID-19
• Quo Vadis, Europe? Coping with Old and New Crises
• COVID-19 Will Have Long-lasting Consequences for International Migration
• How COVID and Syria Conspiracies Introduce Fascism to the Left: The Red-Brown Media Spectrum
• QAnon: A Conspiracy for Our Time
• Black Lives Matter, Policing, and Military Presence
• I Predict a Riot: An Analysis of White Supremacist Propaganda in the Wake of the George Floyd Murder
• “Get in the Bin!” The Far-Right “Guarding” British Monuments
• Contemporary Tensions Between Blacks and Jews in America: July Fireworks and Why They Matter
• Is America Edging Toward a “Racial Holy War”?
• Nuancing “Chan-Culture”: /K/ and the Visual Culture of Weapons Boards
• The Other Epidemic: White Supremacists in Law Enforcement
• No Bargain: Why Don’t Bad Cops Get Fired? The Power of Police Unions
• ‘Press the Reset Button’: Right-Wing Extremism in Germany’s Military
• Investigating the Radical Right’s Presence in the Canadian Military
• Alt-Tech
• The Social Media Platform That Welcomes QAnon with Open Arms
• The Transnationalization of White Supremacist Discourse: The Hundred-Handers and the It’s Okay to Be White Campaign
• Networked Hate: White Supremacist Activity on Telegram
• Why Do Hate Groups and Terrorists Love Telegram?
• Ideology, Intellectuals, and Metapolitics
• Did a French Far-Right Thinker Predict 2020?
• Why Did Heidegger Emerge as the Central Philosopher of the Far-Right?
• Sweden Heading Towards “Academic Freedom” as Battlefield of the Radical Right
• Why is the Brazilian Right Afraid of Pablo Freire?
• The Right’s War on Science & Experts Escalates Amid COVID-19
• What WhatsApp Conversations Reveal About the Far-Right’s Ideology
• Racist Occultism in the UK: Behind the Order of Nine Angles (O9A)
• Sexuality and Gender
• The New Man and Fascism
• Incels: Alienated Men and Violence in the Digital Age
• The Proud Boys Are Standing By
• Marching On, But Not Together: The Georgian Far Right versus Guram Kashia
• The “Rainbow Nation” is Not Immune to Anti-gender Activism: Attacks on Queer Bodies and Knowledge in South Africa
• Turning Family Into a Political Weapon
• Islamophobia in Sri Lanka, or the Sterilization Obsession
• The Radical Right is Exploiting a Swedish Teen’s Murder
• New Voter Strongholds
• When Ethnic Minorities Vote for Right-Wing Populism
• In Bed with the Far Right in Thuringia: A Watershed Moment for Muslim CDU supporters?
• The German AfD Makes Appeals to Russian-Germans
• The Radical Right in Turmoil
• Disunity within the Ranks? Party Expulsions in the European Radical Right: 2000-2020
• Is Italian Right-Wing Populism in Decline?
• The Dusk after the Dawn: Fall of a Greek Neo-Nazi Party
• Countering the Radical Right
• Collecting Hate: The Ethics of Archiving and Researching on the Radical and Far-Right
• The Many Faces of the Radical Right and How to Counter Their Threat: CARR’s Report “Faces” of the Radical Right
• Treating “White Men” as a New “Suspect Community” is Not the Answer
• Tackling Online Radicalisation at Its Offline Roots
• Moving Away from Islamist Extremism: Assessing Counter Narrative Responses to the Far-Right Online
• How to Counter Radical Right Narratives Head on
• Can Anything Be Done Against Radical Right Misinformation?
• The Effects of Censoring the Far-Right Online
• Is Antifa the Answer to Today’s Fascism?
• Remembering Kevin Coogan
• How to Laugh Away the Far-Right: Lessons from Germany
• CARR 2020 Bibliography