Uniting Germany’s Radical Right
The recent right-wing surge in Germany is marked by an increasing degree of dispersal among radical-right actors. New parties, movements, groupuscules, think tanks and media outlets have emerged since 2013…
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September 2018
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Automated event extraction tools for the study of the far-right
Protest event analysis (PEA) is a method of quantitative content analysis with a long tradition in the study of collective mobilization. Despite its limitations,[i] it offers social scientists the opportunity…
Anti-Muslim Hate: The Definition Problem
The terms ‘Islamophobia’ and ‘Anti-Muslim hate’ are used regularly in news coverage of certain events. These have most recently involved incidences of a car ram-raiding worshippers outside a mosque in…
Tommy Robinson and the Transformation of the British Far Right
Tommy Robinson has been transformed into a truly global figure, a purported martyr for the dispossessed and the most influential radical-right leader in Britain since Sir Oswald Mosley. Following Tommy…
Welcome to Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (#CARR)
The Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR) is the leading information aggregator and knowledge repository on the radical right, past and present. Above all, CARR intends to lead…
Understanding the Network of Anti-Muslim Groups on Facebook
This article is the third in a series on using social network analysis to explain the structure of extremist online communities and events. The paper that this article is based…
Mapping the Malleability of British Values
British values are often comically referred to as the need for orderly queues, a respect for the Queen and cucumber sandwiches with pots of tea, or for one of my…
German Right-Wing Terrorism
German right-wing extremism is currently on everyone’s lips. The right-wing threat in Germany is increasing in violence, as the recent rallies and demonstrations in the eastern German cities of Chemnitz…
Taking our Children – Why Radical Right Extremists Prey on Our Deepest Human Fears
“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children” These fourteen words have been seared into white supremacist folklore. Coined by David Laine, a member…
Trolling Has Been Part Of Right-Wing Movements Throughout History
In his recently published Alt-Right (London: Pluto Press, 2018) Mike Wendling provides a detailed analysis of the alt-right as it exists almost exclusively in cyberspace. The alt-right achieved prominence during…