ABSTRACT
Researching the Far Right brings together researchers from across the humanities and social sciences to provide much needed discussion about the methodological, ethical, political, personal, practical and professional issues and challenges that arise when researching far right parties, their electoral support, and far right protest movements.
Drawing on original research focussing mainly on Europe and North America over the last 30 years, this volume explores in detail the opportunities and challenges associated with using ethnographic, interview-based, quantitative and online research methods to study the far right. These reflections are set within a wider discussion of the evolution of far right studies from a variety of disciplinary viewpoints within the humanities or the social sciences, tracing the key developments and debates that shape the field today.
This volume will be essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in understanding the many manifestations of the far right and cognate movements today. It also offers insight and reflection that is likely to be valuable for a wider range of students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences who are carrying out work of an ethically, politically, personally, practically and professionally challenging nature.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|94 pages
Disciplinary overviews
chapter 2|13 pages
Historians and the contemporary far right
chapter 5|18 pages
Getting inside ‘the head’ of the Far Right
part II|86 pages
Quantitative approaches and online research
chapter 9|17 pages
Challenges and opportunities of social media research
chapter 11|17 pages
Researching far-right hypermedia environments
part III|44 pages
Interviewing the far right
chapter 13|13 pages
Interviewing members of the white power movement in the United States
part IV|68 pages
Ethnographic studies of the far right
chapter 16|16 pages
Overcoming racialisation in the field
chapter 17|14 pages
Negotiating ethical dilemmas during an ethnographic study of anti-minority activism
chapter 18|23 pages
Whiteness, class and the ‘communicative community’
part V|46 pages
The significance of place, culture and performance when researching the far right
chapter 20|13 pages
Studying the peripheries
part VI|30 pages
The intersection of academic and activist positionalities and disseminating far right research