Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright page Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Introduction: Researching the far right PART I: Disciplinary overviews 1. Political science approaches to the far right 2. Historians and the contemporary far right: To bring (or not to bring) the past into the present? 3. Sociological survey of the far right 4. Right thinking: Criminologists on right-wing extremism 5. Getting inside 'the head' of the Far Right: Psychological responses to the socio-political context 6. Neo-nationalism and far right studies: Anthropological perspectives PART II: Quantitative approaches and online research 7. Estimating the far right vote with aggregate data 8. Methods for mapping far right violence 9. Challenges and opportunities of social media research: Using Twitter and Facebook to investigate far right discourses 10. Big data and the resurgence of the far right within the United States of America 11. Researching far-right hypermedia environments: A case-study of the German online platform einprozent.de PART III: Interviewing the far right 12. Methodology matters: Researching the far right 13. Interviewing members of the white power movement in the United States: Reflections on research strategies and challenges of right-wing extremists 14. Life-history interviews with rightwing extremists PART IV: Ethnographic studies of the far right 15. An observational study of the Norwegian far right: Some reflections 16. Overcoming racialisation in the field: Practising ethnography on the far right as a researcher of colour 17. Negotiating ethical dilemmas during an ethnographic study of anti-minority activism: A personal reflection on the adoption of a ‘nondehumanization’ principle 18. Whiteness, class and the 'communicative community': A doctoral researcher’s journey to a local political ethnography PART V: The significance of place, culture and performance when researching the far right 19. Studying local context to fathom far-right success 20. Studying the peripheries: Iconography and embodiment in far right youth subcultures 21. Normalization to the right: Analyzing the micro-politics of the far-right PART VI: The intersection of academic and activist positionalities and disseminating far right research 22. Getting insights and inside far right groups 23. From demonization to normalization: Reflecting on far right research Index