ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Far‐Right Extremism in Europe is a timely and important study of the far and extreme right-wing phenomenon across a broad spectrum of European countries, and in relation to a selected list of core areas and topics such as anti‐gender, identitarian politics, hooliganism, and ideology.
The handbook deals with the rise and the developments of the far‐right movements, parties, and organisations across diverse countries in Europe. Crucially it discusses the main topics and features issues pertaining to the far‐right ideology and positioning, and considers how central and less central actors of the far‐right milieus have fared within the given context. Comprising a wide range of subject expertise, the contributors focus on far-right organisations on the margins of the electoral sphere, as well as street‐level movements, and the relationship between them and electoral politics. The handbook spans nearly twenty European country‐cases, grouped according to geographical/regional area. It includes case studies where the far right has gained increased momentum, as well as countries where it has been much less successful in mobilising public opinion and electorate. Another important feature is the inclusion of street‐level mobilisations, such as football firms, thereby expanding and updating existing research, which is primarily focused on political parties and organisations.
Multidisciplinary and comprehensive, this handbook will be of great interest to scholars and students of Criminology, Political Science, Extremism Studies, European Studies, Media and Communication, and Sociology.
Introduction
Katherine Kondor and Mark Littler
PART I – Eastern Europe
1. The far-right, football hooligans and their instrumentalization by an authoritarian regime: Serbia as case study
Jovo Bakić
2. The Far Right in Ukraine
Tamta Gelashvili
3. The Russian far right: A changing landscape of spaces of hate
Mihai Varga
PART II – Central Europe
4. The importance of subnational politics for far-right strength: The east-west divide in Germany
Sabine Volk and Manes Weisskircher
5. The Austrian far right: historical continuities and the case of the Ulrichsberg commemorations
Michael Zeller
6. Four Cycles of the Czech Far-Right’s Contention
Jan Charvát , Ondřej Slačálek, and Eva Svatoňová
7. Hungary’s goulash-nationalism: The tough stew of the Hungarian far right
Katherine Kondor and Rudolf Paksa
PART III – Southern Europe
8. The New Populist Radical Right in Portugal: the Chega party
Riccardo Marchi
9. The Radicalisation of the Mainstream: Populist Radical Right Parties and Extreme Right-Wing Movements in Italy (2012-2022)
Valerio Alfonso Bruno and James Downes
10. Far Right in Greece: A foretold story
Vasiliki Tsagkroni
11. The Greek-Cypriot far-right space, its history and ELAM’s trajectory
Giorgos Charalambous
PART IV – Northern Europe
12. The evolution of the extreme right in Norway since 1990s
Anders Ravik Jupskås and Tore Bjørgo
13. The far right in Sweden
Anders Widfeldt
14. The shift to the right in Denmark
Mette Wiggen
PART V – Western Europe
15. The French right
Nicolas LeBourg and Marlène Laruelle
16. Alone at the Table: The Dutch Identitair Verzet and the European Identarian Movement
Sting Daniels and Yannick Veilleux-Lepage
17. Radical right-wing politics on the island of Ireland
Jim McAuley and Shaun McDaid
18. Towards a Truly Post-Organisational Movement? The Contemporary UK Far Right and its Organisational Trajectory since 2009
William Allchorn
EPILOGUE – Selected Current Issues in the European Far Right
19. ‘America coughs, and we catch a cold’: Mapping the relationship between the American far right and British and European activism
Paul Jackson
20. Gendering the Far-Right Continuum in Europe
Cristian Ov Norocel
21. Misogyny as a Gateway to Far-Right Hate: A Quantitative Exploration in Great Britain
Antoinette Huber, Gavin Hart, and Mark Littler
