Hermeneutical injustice and the far right?
Hermeneutical injustice is defined as the inability to communicate and/ or understand one’s own social experience, owing to a lack of concepts available in society used to define the experience.…
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August 2019
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Totalitarianism in the twentieth century and beyond
A key under-studied area for analysis is how contemporary extreme right movements can also be seen as totalitarian. Indeed, it is not difficult to find examples of such. According to…
Populism in Power: The Italian Case
The Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has recently announced his resignation after 14 months of the so-called Government of change. This political crisis offers us the opportunity to turn our…
The Far-Right Party Family in the 21st Century: A Guide
Ideological Diversity Contemporary Far Right parties in Europe are often grouped into two distinct ideological wings. It is first important to differentiate between populist radical right parties (PRR) and extreme…
Radical Right Expert: Donald Trump Is A White Supremacist Asset
President Trump has crossed the Rubicon from traditional Republican racism into full-blown white supremacy, and it’s a threat to our national security. Donald J. Trump describes Latino immigrants as “rapists”…
The Eyewitness Account of Stanislaw Kon and Treblinka Death Camp Uprising – 2 August 1943
This August 2019 CARR blogpost follows the account of Stanislaw-Shulem Kon who was born in 1909 in Praszka, near Lodz, a city in which he resided until 1939. As a…
Why Russia Wants To Be An Empire Again
Authoritarianism helped Putin keep Russia from the collapse. Questions remain whether he can unify his disparate nation. In July 2019, mass demonstrations of citizens for fair elections were held in…
The Pride of Prejudice: The Radical Right And The LGBTQ+ Community
While racism and xenophobia are central tenets of the radical right, so is homophobia – in spite of efforts to appear as allies to the LGBTQ community. The June 2019…
From ‘Challengers’ to ‘Incumbents’: The Populist Radical Right in Government
Electoral Breakthroughs Following the electoral breakthrough of the populist radical right (PRR) in continental Europe in both recent national parliamentary elections covering the 2015–2018 refugee crisis period and the 2019…
A Healthy Police Force Is a Sign of a Healthy Democracy
The institution of the police may be considered a key indicator in the empirical measurement of democratization processes. The institution that creates and maintains domestic security — and that can…