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This book showcases recent scholarship on mobilization for and against the far-right in Europe and the USA, fills in gaps in empirical knowledge on right-wing mobilization and serves as a means to test the robustness of existing social movement theory. The chapters in this book were originally published in
Social Movement Studies.
List of contents
Mobilizing for and against the Far-Right: An Introduction 1. Activating the socialist past for a nativist future: Far-right intellectuals and the prefigurative power of multidirectional nostalgia in Dresden 2. Local leaders in national social movements: The Tea Party 3. Both roads lead to Rome: Activist commitment and the identity-structure nexus in CasaPound. 4. Defending democracy against the ‘Corona dictatorship’? Far-right PEGIDA during the COVID-19 pandemic 5. Decentralized hate: Sustained connective action in online far-right community 6. Anti-nationalist Europeans and pro-European nativists on the streets: Visions of Europe from the left to the far right 7. Demobilising far-right demonstration campaigns: Coercive counter-mobilisation, state social control, and the demobilisation of the Hess Gedenkmarsch campaign 8. A tale of two campaigns: understanding the role of short-term political context in Czech and Slovak counter/mobilizing on migration 9. Retweet solidarity: Transatlantic Twitter connectivity between militant antifascists in the USA and UK 10. LGBTQ activism in repressive contexts: The struggle for (in)visibility in Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey
About the author
Cristina Flesher Fominaya is Professor of Global Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is Editor in Chief of
Social Movement Studies and Founding Editor of
Interface Journal. Her latest books are
Democracy Reloaded (2020) and
Social Movements in a Globalized World (2020).
Damon Eguiarte Flesher is Managing Editor at
Social Movement Studies and has also collaborated as Managing Editor on the
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements: Protest in Turbulent Times (Flesher Fominaya and Feenstra 2020). Damon also works as a translator (Spanish-English).
Summary
This book showcases recent scholarship on mobilization for and against the far-right in Europe and the USA, fills in gaps in empirical knowledge on right-wing mobilization and serves as a means to test the robustness of existing social movement theory. The chapters in this book were originally published in Social Movement Studies.
