Researching the far right : theory, method and practice
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Researching the far right : theory, method and practice
（Routledge studies in fascism and the far right）
Routledge, 2021
- : pbk
Available at 4 libraries
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Other editors: Joel Busher, Graham Macklin and Aaron Winter
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Researching the Far Right brings together researchers from across the humanities and social sciences to provide much needed discussion about the methodological, ethical, political, personal, practical and professional issues and challenges that arise when researching far right parties, their electoral support, and far right protest movements.
Drawing on original research focussing mainly on Europe and North America over the last 30 years, this volume explores in detail the opportunities and challenges associated with using ethnographic, interview-based, quantitative and online research methods to study the far right. These reflections are set within a wider discussion of the evolution of far right studies from a variety of disciplinary viewpoints within the humanities or the social sciences, tracing the key developments and debates that shape the field today.
This volume will be essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in understanding the many manifestations of the far right and cognate movements today. It also offers insight and reflection that is likely to be valuable for a wider range of students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences who are carrying out work of an ethically, politically, personally, practically and professionally challenging nature.
Table of Contents
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
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