Mapping the extreme right in contemporary Europe : from local to transnational / edited by Andrea Mammone, Emmanuel Godin, and Brian Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mammone, Andrea.

Godin, Emmanuel.

Jenkins, Brian.

Series:

Routledge studies in extremism and democracy.

Extremism and Democracy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Right-wing extremists--Europe.

Right-wing extremists.

Europe--Politics and government--1989-.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, c2011.

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. After providing some local and regional perspectives, the book has a series of national case studies of particular countries and regions including: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Eastern Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta,

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 NordPART 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 UKRAINEPART 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 Malta18 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-33038-0

1-280-66011-2

9786613637048

1-136-33039-9

0-203-12192-9

9780203121924

OCLC:

798532902