Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
About the Book Series
This book series focuses upon national, transnational and global manifestations of fascist, far right and right-wing politics primarily within a historical context but also drawing on insights and approaches from other disciplinary perspectives. Its scope also includes anti-fascism, radical-right populism, extreme-right violence and terrorism, cultural manifestations of the far right, and points of convergence and exchange with the mainstream and traditional right.
Plínio Salgado: A Brazilian Fascist (1895–1975)
1st Edition
By João Fábio Bertonha
January 30, 2025
Plínio Salgado covers the life trajectory of the far-right Brazilian political leader between 1895 and 1975. The book initially follows his life from his birth, including political and cultural training and political activities between 1895 and 1930. The focus then shifts to his period as leader ...
Far-Right Ecologism: Environmental Politics and the Far Right in Hungary and Poland
1st Edition
By Balša Lubarda
December 18, 2024
Far-Right Ecologism explains how the ongoing mainstreaming of the far right has prompted greater engagement with a range of topics, including the environment. Behind the façade of vote-winning strategies, the far right has provided a substantive ideological engagement with the natural environment. ...
Memory in Hungarian Fascism: A Cultural History
1st Edition
By Zoltán Kékesi
December 18, 2024
Memory in Hungarian Fascism: A Cultural History argues that fascist memory had a key role in the historical formation and later return of fascism. Tracing the trajectory of a perennial figure of fascist memory, the cult of Eszter Sólymosi, from interwar Hungary through the Cold War West to ...
The Right and the Nation: Transnational Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Toni Morant i Ariño, Julián Sanz, Ismael Saz
December 18, 2024
This book explores the influence of right-wing political cultures (including conservatism, political Catholicism, reactionary nationalism and fascism) on nation-building processes and the creation of national identities in modern times. The chapters extend the focus of analysis across the ...
The Politics of Memory in the Italian Populist Radical Right: From Mare Nostrum to Mare Vostrum
1st Edition
By Marianna Griffini
November 28, 2024
The Politics of Memory in the Italian Populist Radical Right examines the role of colonial memory in the contemporary Italian populist radical right, which includes the Lega and Fratelli d’Italia (FdI). The book originally adopts postcolonialism as an analytical framework to critically examine ...
Imagining Alternative Worlds: Far-Right Fiction and the Power of Cultural Imaginaries
1st Edition
By Christoffer Kølvraa, Bernhard Forchtner
November 11, 2024
Imagining Alternative Worlds explores how the far right employs fictionality as a powerful political tool in the 21st century. It does so by examining the far right’s own cultural production and commentary through a large collection of its novels, novellas, short stories, and film reviews, ...
Inside the Black Box of 'White Backlash': Letters of Support to Enoch Powell (1968-1969)
1st Edition
By Olivier Esteves
August 26, 2024
Inside the Black Box of ‘White Backlash’ researches the contents of the letters of support sent to British politician Enoch Powell in the wake of his so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech of April 20, 1968. Never has a politician received so much written support in so short a time. This book takes a ...
Nordic Fascism: Fragments of an Entangled History
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicola Karcher, Markus Lundström
August 26, 2024
Nordic Fascism is the first comprehensive history in English of fascism in the Nordic countries. Transnational cooperation between radical nationalists has especially been the case in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland, where fascism has not only developed through interdependent processes but ...
The Nazi Party and the German Communities Abroad: The Latin American Case
1st Edition
By João Fábio Bertonha, Rafael Athaides
August 26, 2024
The Nazi Party and the German Communities Abroad examines the German Nazi Party’s actions around the world in the 1930s and 1940s. The book particularly focuses in on the formation and development of the Auslandsorganization der NSDAP (AO) (Nazi Party/Foreign Organization), the party branch charged...
Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism: The Comité Mondial des Femmes contre la Guerre et le Fascisme, 1934 – 1941
1st Edition
By Jasmine Calver
May 27, 2024
Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism provides a comprehensive history of the Comite mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme (CMF), an international women’s organisation concerned with confronting the impact of fascism on women and children across the globe. Women played an ...
British Antifascism and the Holocaust, 1945–79
1st Edition
By Joshua Cohen
May 27, 2024
British Antifascism and the Holocaust, 1945–79 explores the extent to which the Holocaust has shaped British antifascism. The author tests assertions of an uncomplicated relationship between Holocaust memory and the imperative to resist postwar fascist revivals. For those with a scholarly interest ...
Canadian Multiculturalism and the Far Right: Walter J. Bossy and the Origins of the ‘Third Force’, 1930s–1970s
1st Edition
By Bàrbara Molas
May 27, 2024
Canadian Multiculturalism and the Far Right examines a neglected aspect of the history of 20th century Canadian multiculturalism and the far right to illuminate the ideological foundations of the concept of ‘third force’. Focusing on the particular thought of ultra-conservative Ukrainian Canadian ...