The CARR Interview Series: Sabine Volk
In this Series, our Head of Ideology Research Unit Balša Lubarda speaks to some of the people helping to make CARR the ‘one-stop shop for knowledge and resources on right-wing…
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September 2021
24 posts
Review of ‘Fascismens gröna rötter. Konspirationsteorier, kris och kollaps´ [”The Green Roots of Fascism. Conspiracy Theories, Crisis and Collapse”] by Hannah Pollack Sarnecki (78p. 2021)
In early 2021, two Swedish youngsters were prosecuted for carrying out an arson-attack against a mink farm in Sweden, motivated by eco-fascist, accelerationist ideas. With obvious links to online support…
Exhibiting Fascism: An Exhibition Explores the Allure of Radicalism
In recent months, I have had the privilege of helping curate an exhibition, “This Fascist Life: Radical Right Movements in Interwar Europe,” which is running from October 2021 to February 2022…
CARR Research Insight Series: Dehumanisation of ‘Outgroups’ on Facebook and Twitter: Towards a framework for assessing online hate organisations and actors
Abstract While preventing dehumanization of outgroups is a widely accepted goal in the field of countering violent extremism, current algorithms by social media platforms are focused on detecting individual samples…
From Direct Action to Terrorism: Canadian Radical Right Narratives and Counter-Narratives at a Time of Volatility
For several years now, radical right extremist groups and their terror potential have been on the radar of Canada’s Security and Intelligence Services. Noted as a growing threat, after an attack on three police…
CARR Interviews with Specialists: Professor Julie V. Gottlieb
This interview has been lightly edited from a transcription with Professor Julie V. Gottlieb undertaken by Louis Dean. The first fascist party in the UK, the British Fascisti, was founded…
Andrew Kolin. One Family: Before, During and After the Holocaust. Third Edition. Lanham: Hamilton Books, 2021.
One Family is a history of several generations of a single Jewish family from East-Central Europe, written by one of their descendents now living in North America. But in telling…
Is Big Tech Ready to Tackle Extremism?
A news story that falsely claimed that the COVID-19 vaccine caused the death of an American doctor was the most viewed article on Facebook in the US for the first…
The deadly political game being played at the EU’s eastern border
On Sunday 19 September, four people were found dead at the border between Poland and Belarus, the latest development in a diplomatic stand-off that has lasted more than a month. In August,…
Free Speech – What’s not to like?
This article argues that the attack on ‘cancel culture’ is the creation of a culture war where none exists. The number of cancelled events at universities is very small and…