1st Edition

Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe From Local to Transnational

Edited By Andrea Mammone, Emmanuel Godin, Brian Jenkins Copyright 2012
    360 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    376 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    In recent years the revival of the far right and anti-Semitic, racist and fascist organizations has posed a significant threat throughout Europe. Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe provides a broad geographical overview of the dominant strands within the contemporary radical right in both Western and Eastern Europe.

    After providing some local and regional perspectives, the book has a series of national case studies of particular countries and regions including: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Scandinavia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. A series of thematic chapters examine transnational phenomena such as the use of the Internet, the racist music scene, cultural transfers and interaction between different groups.

    Drawing together a wide range of contributors, this is essential reading for all those with an interest in contemporary extremism, fascism and comparative party politics.

    Introduction: Mapping the ‘Right of the Mainstream Right’ in Contemporary Europe Andrea Mammone, Emmanuel Godin and Brian Jenkins  Part 1: Local and Regional Perspectives  1. Backlash in the ‘Hood’: Exploring Support for the British National Party (BNP) at Local Level Matthew J. Goodwin  2. After Colonialism: Local Politics and Far-Right Affinities in a City of Southern France John Veugelers  3. Placing the Extremes: Cityscape, Ethnic ‘Others’, and Young Right Extremists in East Berlin Nitzan Shoshan  4. Extreme-Right Discourse in Belgium: A Comparative Regional Approach JérômeJamin  5. Regionalism, Right-wing Extremism, Populism: The Elusive Nature of the Lega Nord Giorgia Bulli and Filippo Tronconi  Part 2: The Southern European Extreme Right after Dictatorships  6. The Portuguese Radical Right in the Democratic Period Riccardo Marchi  7. The Spanish Extreme Right: From Neo-Francoism to Xenophobic Discourse José L.Rodríguez Jiménez  8. LAOS and the Greek Far Right since 1974 Antonis A. Ellinas  Part 3: The Extreme Right In Post-Communism Context  9. The Extreme Right in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia Věra Stojarová  10. Extreme-Right Paramilitary Units in Eastern Europe Miroslav Mareš and Richard Stojar  11. Extreme-Right Parties in Romania after 1990: Incumbency, Organisation and Success Gabriela Borz  12. Anti-Semitism and the Extreme Right in Contemporary Ukraine Per Rudling  Part 4: National and Comparative Perspectives: A Challenge to 'Exceptionalism'?  13. Challenging the Exceptionalist View: Favourable Conditions for Radical Right-Wing Populism in Switzerland Damir Skenderovic  14. Turkish Extreme Right in Office: Whither Democracy and Democratisation? Ekin Burak Arikan  15. Scandinavian Right-Wing Parties: Diversity more than Convergence? Marie Demker  16. Downside after the Summit: Factors in Extreme-Right Party Decline in France and Austria Michelle Hale Williams  Part 5: From 'Local' to 'Transnational  17. Rights, Roots, and Routes: Local and Transnational Contexts of Extreme-Right Movements in Contemporary Malta Mark-Anthony Falzon and Mark Micallef  18. Cross-national Ideology in Local Elections: The case of Azione Sociale and the British National Party Andrea Mammone and Timothy Peace  19. The Transfer of Ideas along a Cultural Gradient: the Influence of the European New Right on Aleksandr Panarin’s New Eurasianism Marina Peunova  20. Trans European Trends in Right-Wing Extremism Michael Whine

    Biography

    Andrea Mammone is a Lecturer in Modern European History at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

    Emmanuel Godin is Principal Lecturer in the School of Languages and Area Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

    Brian Jenkins is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of French at the University of Leeds, UK. He co-edits the Journal of Contemporary European Studies.

     

    ‘This study is distinctive in being grounded in a wide array of empirically well documented case studies. It integrates in a convincing explanation multiple causal factors, illustrating the specific interaction of the local, national and supra-national determinants of right wing extremism and its manifestations.’

    Carlo Ruzza, Professor of Political Sociology, University of Leicester, UK.

    ‘This is the most interesting and comprehensive collection of articles on the radical right to appear in many years. The authors, from Europe, the United States, Mexico, Turkey and Canada, include scholars who have been writing on this subject for many years, as well as a group of new and clearly talented young scholars. These excellent contributions could not be timelier.’

    Martin A. Schain, Professor of Politics, New York University, USA.