Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138219342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 432 str.

Stephen Ashe (University of Manchester); UK.) Joel Busher (Conventry University;Graham Macklin

Opis

In recent years, Europe and America have witnessed a resurgence of the far right in the form of both party electoral support and street level protest movements, as well as an increase in hate crimes. There has also been an increase in right-wing nationalist politics and party success in other parts of the world too, including India. This comes at a time when `extremism' more broadly defined, but including the far right, is also very much on the agenda for the media, public, policy makers, activists and academics. While there has been an upsurge in empirical research on the far right and extremism, there has been a comparative dearth of detailed discussion in relation to the methodological, ethical, political, personal, practical and professional issues and challenges that arise from it. This collection directly addresses these issues. The authors analyse and reflect on the research process in this area with reference to topics such as methods, ethics, access, objectivity and impact. Offering contributions which address a range of subject disciplines and geographical regions, this book is essential reading for anyone conducting research into the far right.

Spis treści

Part I: Disciplinary overviews  1. Political science approaches to the far right  2. Historians and the contemporary far right: To bring (or not to bring) the past into the present?  3. A Sociological survey of the far right  4. Right thinking: Criminologists on right wing extremism  5. Getting inside ‘the head’ of the far right: Psychological responses to the socio-political context  6. Neo-nationalism and far right studies: Anthropological perspectives  Part II: Quantitative and online research  7. Estimating the far right vote with aggregate data  8. Methods for mapping far right violence  9. Challenges and opportunities of social media research: Using Twitter and Facebook to investigate far right discourses  10. Big data and the resurgence of the far right within the United States of America  11. Researching far-right hypermedia environments: a case-study of the German online platform einprozent.de  Part III: Interviewing the far right  12. Methodology matters: researching the far right  13. Interviewing members of the White Power Movement in the United States: Reflections on research strategies and challenges of right-wing extremists  14. Life-history interviews with right-wing extremists  Part IV: Ethnographic studies of the far right  15. An observational study of the Norwegian far right: some reflections  16. Overcoming racialization in the field: Practicing ethnography on the far right as a researcher of color  17. Negotiating ethical dilemmas during an ethnographic study of anti-minority activism: A personal reflection on the adoption of a ‘non-dehumanization’ principle  18. Whiteness, class and the ‘communicative community’: A doctoral researcher’s journey to a local political ethnography  Part V: The significance of place, culture and performance when researching the far right  19. Studying local context to fathom far right success  20. Studying the peripheries: Iconography and embodiment in far right youth subcultures  21. Normalization to the right: Analyzing the micro‐politics of the far right  Part VI: The intersection of academic and activist positionalities and disseminating far right research  22. Getting insights and inside far right groups  23. From demonization to normalization: Reflecting on far right research