The Routledge Handbook of Far-Right Extremism in Europe is a timely and important study of the far and extreme right wing phenomenon across a broad spectrum of European countries.
The Routledge Handbook of Far-Right Extremism in Europe is a timely and important study of the far and extreme right-wing phenomenon across a broad spectrum of European countries, and in relation to a selected list of core areas and topics such as anti-gender, identitarian politics, hooliganism, and protest mobilisation.
The handbook deals with the rise and the developments of far-right movements, parties, and organisations across diverse countries in Europe. Crucially, it discusses the main topics and issues pertaining to far-right ideology and positioning, and considers how central and less central actors of far-right milieus have fared within the given context. Comprising a wide range of subject expertise, the contributors focus on far-right organisations on the margins of the electoral sphere, as well as street-level movements, and the relationship between them and electoral politics. The handbook spans nearly twenty European country cases, grouped according to geographical/regional area. It includes case studies where the far right has gained increased momentum, as well as countries where it has been much less successful in mobilising public opinion and the electorate (e.g. Ireland and Portugal). Another important feature is the inclusion of street-level mobilisations, such as football firms, thereby expanding and updating existing research, which is primarily focused on political parties and organisations.
Multidisciplinary and comprehensive, this handbook will be of great interest to scholars and students of Criminology, Political Science, Extremism Studies, European Studies, Media and Communication, and Sociology.
This project has received funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101029801. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
Introduction
Katherine Kondor and Mark Littler
PART I Eastern Europe
1. The far-right, football hooligans and their instrumentalization by an
authoritarian regime: Serbia as case study
Jovo Baki
2. The Far Right in Ukraine
Tamta Gelashvili
3. The Russian far right: A changing landscape of spaces of hate
Mihai Varga
PART II Central Europe
4. The importance of subnational politics for far-right strength: The
east-west divide in Germany
Sabine Volk and Manes Weisskircher
5. The Austrian far right: historical continuities and the case of the
Ulrichsberg commemorations
Michael Zeller
6. Four Cycles of the Czech Far-Rights Contention
Jan Charvįt , Ondej Slaįlek, and Eva Svatoovį
7. Hungarys goulash-nationalism: The tough stew of the Hungarian far right
Katherine Kondor and Rudolf Paksa
PART III Southern Europe
8. The New Populist Radical Right in Portugal: the Chega party
Riccardo Marchi
9. The Radicalisation of the Mainstream: Populist Radical Right Parties and
Extreme Right-Wing Movements in Italy (2012-2022)
Valerio Alfonso Bruno and James Downes
10. Far Right in Greece: A foretold story
Vasiliki Tsagkroni
11. The Greek-Cypriot far-right space, its history and ELAMs trajectory
Giorgos Charalambous
PART IV Northern Europe
12. The evolution of the extreme right in Norway since 1990s
Anders Ravik Jupskås and Tore Bjųrgo
13. The far right in Sweden
Anders Widfeldt
14. The shift to the right in Denmark
Mette Wiggen
PART V Western Europe
15. The French right
Nicolas LeBourg and Marlčne Laruelle
16. Alone at the Table: The Dutch Identitair Verzet and the European
Identarian Movement
Sting Daniels and Yannick Veilleux-Lepage
17. Radical right-wing politics on the island of Ireland
Jim McAuley and Shaun McDaid
18. Towards a Truly Post-Organisational Movement? The Contemporary UK Far
Right and its Organisational Trajectory since 2009
William Allchorn
EPILOGUE Selected Current Issues in the European Far Right
19. America coughs, and we catch a cold: Mapping the relationship between
the American far right and British and European activism
Paul Jackson
20. Gendering the Far-Right Continuum in Europe
Cristian Ov Norocel
21. Misogyny as a Gateway to Far-Right Hate: A Quantitative Exploration in
Great Britain
Antoinette Huber, Gavin Hart, and Mark Littler
Katherine Kondor is a Marie Skodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo and a Visiting Fellow in Media and Illiberalism at Loughborough University. She studies recruitment practices, pathways into far-right organisations, and far-right cultural production, particularly in the Hungarian far right. Katherine has published on the Hungarian far right, online extremism, the use of the digital space in the study of the far right, and audience engagement with media.
Mark Littler is an Associate Professor of Criminology and deputy head of the School of Law and Criminology at Liverpool Hope University. He was previously senior lecturer in Criminology and Security Studies at the University of Huddersfield, and a lecturer in Criminology at the University of Hull. He is a series editor for Routledge Studies in Digital Extremism, an associate editor of Behavioural Science of Terrorism and Political Aggression, and Co-chair of the European Society of Criminologys Working Group on Terrorism, Extremism, and Radicalization.
