1st Edition
Liberal Roots of Far Right Activism The Anti-Islamic Movement in the 21st Century
By Lars Erik Berntzen
Copyright 2020
228 Pages
48 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
228 Pages
48 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
228 Pages
48 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores the anti-Islamic turn and expansion of the far right in Western Europe, North America and beyond from 2001 and onwards.
Driven by terror attacks and other moral shocks, the anti-Islamic cause has undergone four waves of transnational expansion in the period since 2001. The leaders and intellectuals involved have varied backgrounds, many coming from the left, uniting... Read more
1. Far Right and Liberal?
2. Perspectives on the Far Right
3. Mapping a Movement
4. Expansion and Legacy
5. Worldviews
6. Networks
7. Mobilization
8. Transnational and Semi-Liberal
Addendum: The Toll of Intolerance
Appendix I
Appendix II
Biography
Lars Erik Berntzen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, Norway. Berntzen currently studies affective, identity-based polarization in Western Europe using a combination of panel based survey experiments and social media experiments. He studied sociology at the University of Bergen, before taking his PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
