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Mobilizing for and against the Far-Right book cover

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Mobilizing for and against the Far-Right

Edited By Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Damon Eguiarte Flesher Copyright 2025
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge
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Social movement scholarship has been dominated, until recently, by work on progressive movements. Yet as far-right agendas, narratives, and actors increasingly occupy public space, it is important to recognize, make visible, and understand the important role of grassroots far-right mobilization in facilitating this rise. This book showcases recent scholarship  on mobilization for and against... Read more

Mobilizing for and against the Far-Right: An Introduction

Cristina Flesher Fominaya

 

1. Activating the socialist past for a nativist future: Far-right intellectuals and the prefigurative power of multidirectional nostalgia in Dresden

Julian Göpffarth

 

2. Local leaders in national social movements: The Tea Party

George Ehrhardt

 

3. Both roads lead to Rome: Activist commitment and the identity-structure nexus in CasaPound.

Sébastien Parker and John Veugelers

 

4. Defending democracy against the ‘Corona dictatorship’? Far-right PEGIDA during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sabine Volk and Manès Weisskircher

 

5. Decentralized hate: Sustained connective action in online far-right community

Andrey Kasimov

 

6. Anti-nationalist Europeans and pro-European nativists on the streets: Visions of Europe from the left to the far right

Manuela Caiani and Manès Weisskircher

 

7. Demobilising far-right demonstration campaigns: Coercive counter-mobilisation, state social control, and the demobilisation of the Hess Gedenkmarsch campaign

Michael C. Zeller

 

8. A tale of two campaigns: understanding the role of short-term political context in Czech and Slovak counter/mobilizing on migration

Jiří Navrátil and Alena Kluknavská

 

9. Retweet solidarity: Transatlantic Twitter connectivity between militant antifascists in the USA and UK

Samuel Merrill and Nigel Copsey

 

10. LGBTQ activism in repressive contexts: The struggle for (in)visibility in Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey

Giuseppe Acconcia, Aurora Perego and Lorenza Perini

Biography

Cristina Flesher Fominaya is Professor of Global Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She is Editor in Chief of Social Movement Studies and Founding Editor of Interface Journal. Her latest books are Democracy Reloaded (2020) and Social Movements in a Globalized World (2020).

Damon Eguiarte Flesher is Managing Editor at Social Movement Studies and has also collaborated as Managing Editor on the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements: Protest in Turbulent Times (Flesher Fominaya and Feenstra 2020). Damon also works as a translator (Spanish-English).

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