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Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe : From Local to Transnational.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (361 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780203121924
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 324.2/13094
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Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- INTRODUCTION: Mapping the 'right of the mainstream right' in contemporary Europe -- PART I Local and Regional Perspectives -- 1 BACKLASH IN THE 'HOOD': Exploring support for the British National Party (BNP) at the local level -- 2 AFTER COLONIALISM: Local politics and far-right affinities in a city of southern France -- 3 PLACING THE EXTREMES: Cityscape, ethnic 'others' and young right extremists in East Berlin -- 4 EXTREME-RIGHT DISCOURSE IN BELGIUM: A comparative regional approach -- 5 REGIONALISM, RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM, POPULISM: The elusive nature of the Lega Nord -- PART II The Southern European Extreme Right after Dictatorships -- 6 THE PORTUGUESE RADICAL RIGHT IN THE DEMOCRATIC PERIOD -- 7 THE SPANISH EXTREME RIGHT: From neo-Francoism to xenophobic discourse -- 8 LAOS AND THE GREEK EXTREME RIGHT SINCE 1974 -- PART III The Extreme Right in a Post-Communism Context -- 9 THE EXTREME RIGHT IN CROATIA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA AND SERBIA -- 10 EXTREME-RIGHT PARAMILITARY UNITS IN EASTERN EUROPE -- 11 EXTREME-RIGHT PARTIES IN ROMANIA AFTER 1990: Incumbency, organization and success -- 12 ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE EXTREME RIGHT IN CONTEMPORARY UKRAINE -- PART IV National and Comparative Perspectives: A Challenge to 'Exceptionalism'? -- 13 CHALLENGING THE EXCEPTIONALIST VIEW: Favourable conditions for radical right-wing populism in Switzerland -- 14 TURKISH EXTREME RIGHT IN OFFICE: Whither democracy and democratization? -- 15 SCANDINAVIAN RIGHT-WING PARTIES: Diversity more than convergence? -- 16 DOWNSIDE AFTER THE SUMMIT: Factors in extreme-right party decline in France and Austria -- PART V From 'Local' to 'Transnational' -- 17 RIGHTS, ROOTS AND ROUTES: Local and transnational contexts of extreme-right movements in contemporary Malta.
18 CROSS-NATIONAL IDEOLOGY IN LOCAL ELECTIONS: The case of Azione Sociale and the British National Party -- 19 THE TRANSFER OF IDEAS ALONG A CULTURAL GRADIENT: The influence of the European New Right on Aleksandr Panarin's new Eurasianism -- 20 TRANS-EUROPEAN TRENDS IN RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM -- INDEX.
Summary: 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. 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.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- INTRODUCTION: Mapping the 'right of the mainstream right' in contemporary Europe -- PART I Local and Regional Perspectives -- 1 BACKLASH IN THE 'HOOD': Exploring support for the British National Party (BNP) at the local level -- 2 AFTER COLONIALISM: Local politics and far-right affinities in a city of southern France -- 3 PLACING THE EXTREMES: Cityscape, ethnic 'others' and young right extremists in East Berlin -- 4 EXTREME-RIGHT DISCOURSE IN BELGIUM: A comparative regional approach -- 5 REGIONALISM, RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM, POPULISM: The elusive nature of the Lega Nord -- PART II The Southern European Extreme Right after Dictatorships -- 6 THE PORTUGUESE RADICAL RIGHT IN THE DEMOCRATIC PERIOD -- 7 THE SPANISH EXTREME RIGHT: From neo-Francoism to xenophobic discourse -- 8 LAOS AND THE GREEK EXTREME RIGHT SINCE 1974 -- PART III The Extreme Right in a Post-Communism Context -- 9 THE EXTREME RIGHT IN CROATIA, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA AND SERBIA -- 10 EXTREME-RIGHT PARAMILITARY UNITS IN EASTERN EUROPE -- 11 EXTREME-RIGHT PARTIES IN ROMANIA AFTER 1990: Incumbency, organization and success -- 12 ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE EXTREME RIGHT IN CONTEMPORARY UKRAINE -- PART IV National and Comparative Perspectives: A Challenge to 'Exceptionalism'? -- 13 CHALLENGING THE EXCEPTIONALIST VIEW: Favourable conditions for radical right-wing populism in Switzerland -- 14 TURKISH EXTREME RIGHT IN OFFICE: Whither democracy and democratization? -- 15 SCANDINAVIAN RIGHT-WING PARTIES: Diversity more than convergence? -- 16 DOWNSIDE AFTER THE SUMMIT: Factors in extreme-right party decline in France and Austria -- PART V From 'Local' to 'Transnational' -- 17 RIGHTS, ROOTS AND ROUTES: Local and transnational contexts of extreme-right movements in contemporary Malta.

18 CROSS-NATIONAL IDEOLOGY IN LOCAL ELECTIONS: The case of Azione Sociale and the British National Party -- 19 THE TRANSFER OF IDEAS ALONG A CULTURAL GRADIENT: The influence of the European New Right on Aleksandr Panarin's new Eurasianism -- 20 TRANS-EUROPEAN TRENDS IN RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM -- INDEX.

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. 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.

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