1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Far-Right Extremism in Europe
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 Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-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.
Katherine Kondor
PART I – Eastern Europe
1. The Serbian Far Right, Football Hooligans, and Their Instrumentalisation by an Authoritarian Regime: Serbia as Case Study
Jovo Bakić
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. Subnational Politics and Far-right Strength in Germany: The Importance of the East-West Divide
Sabine Volk and Manes Weisskircher
5. The Austrian Far Right: Historical Continuities and the Case of the Ulrichsberg Commemorations
Michael C. Zeller
6. Four Cycles of the Czech Far-right’s Contention
Jan Charvát, Ondřej Slačálek, and Eva Svatoňová
7. Hungary’s Goulash-nationalism: The Reheated Stew of Hungary's 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 Italian Mainstream: Populist Radical Right Parties and Extreme Right-wing Movements in Italy (2012-2022)
Valerio Alfonso Bruno and James F. Downes
10. The Far Right in Greece: A Foretold Story
Vasiliki Tsagkroni
11. The Greek-Cypriot Far-right Space, Its History and ELAM’s trajectory
Giorgos Charalambous
PART IV – Northern Europe
12. The Evolution of the Extreme Right in Norway Since the 1990s
Anders Ravik Jupskås and Tore Bjørgo
13. The Far Right in Sweden
Anders Widfeldt
14. The Shift to the Right in Denmark
Mette Wiggen
PART V – Western Europe
15. The New Horizons of French Extreme Right: Fragmented but Dynamic and Better Socially Embedded
Nicolas LeBourg and Marlène Laruelle
16. The Dutch Identitair Verzet and the European Identitarian Movement: Alone at the Table
Sting Daniels and Yannick Veilleux-Lepage
17. Radical Right-wing Politics on the Island of Ireland
Shaun McDaid and Jim McAuley
18. The Contemporary UK Far Right and Its Organisational Trajectory Since 2009: Towards a Truly Post-organisational Movement?
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
Biography
Katherine Kondor is a Marie Skłodowska-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 Criminology’s Working Group on Terrorism, Extremism, and Radicalization.
