Andreas Önnerfors

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White melancholy in Sweden: a fertile ground for the rise of the radical right?

A review of Vit melankoli – en analys av en nation i kris [‘White melancholy: an analysis of a nation in crisis’], Catrin Lundström and Tobias Hübinette, (Makadam: Stockholm, 2020),…

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5 min

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Review of Eirikur Bergmann, Neo-Nationalism: The Rise of Nativist Populism (Springer, 2020), 235pp.

Storytelling is an Icelandic virtue. For anyone needing to understand why we today witness the return of an aggressive exclusionary political ideology, professor Eirikur Bergmann’s book (Bifröst University, Iceland) is…

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11 min

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Narrating the ‘Great Replacement’ for the German Goon Squads: Akif Pirinçci’s Umvolkung (2016) Book

As CARR Senior Fellow, Dr Andreas Önnerfors notes: the 153 pages of rage contained in Akif Pirinçci’s Umvolkung (2016) book openly incites hatred against the ‘invaders’ as much as against…

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6 min

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Review of Sverigedemokraterna och nazismen [”The Sweden Democrats and Nazism”] by Maria Robsahm (2020)

For some decades now, it has been a tradition that Swedish parties have chosen a flower for their logo. In 2006, Sverigedemokraterna (SD, Sweden Democrats) changed their party symbol from…

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6 min

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Sweden heading towards ‘academic freedom’ as battlefield of the radical right

What appeared as a harmless series of lectures for journalism students, soon turned out to be one of the first Swedish cases of the issue of ‘academic freedom’ as a…

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7 min

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The Sinking of MS Estonia: The Swedish Radical Right’s Favorite Conspiracy

More than 25 years have passed since the tragedy, yet a web of conspiracy theories that has been spun around the disaster has fueled the Swedish radical right’s imagination. On…

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8 min

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The Germany Synagogue Terrorist’s Manifesto Highlights Threat Of Neo-Nazism

A neo-Nazi targeted a synagogue on Yom Kippur, aiming to “kill as many Jews as possible.” His manifesto continues a trend of white supremacist terrorism. With The Resistable Rise of Arturo…

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8 min

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Radical-Right Radicalization, From the Domestic to the Global

Radical-right radicalization appears to be focused on global and increasingly existential scenarios rather than on domestic or national issues. Radical-right radicalization has quickly moved from being a fringe domestic phenomenon…

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8 min

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’Spöknippet’: the chilling continuities of fascist imagination in the Swedish Radical Right

Four facets of the Fascist label in the Swedish context The use of the term ‘fascism’ or ‘neo-fascism’ in the context of the Swedish radical right and its parliamentary arm,…

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10 min

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How the Swedish Radical Right Hijacked Human Rights

It can be difficult to separate the alleged watchdogs of freedom from the bloodhounds of the populist radical-right discourse. On June 6, 2017, Sweden’s national holiday, charges were filed with…

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White melancholy in Sweden: a fertile ground for the rise of the radical right?

Review of Eirikur Bergmann, Neo-Nationalism: The Rise of Nativist Populism (Springer, 2020), 235pp.

Narrating the ‘Great Replacement’ for the German Goon Squads: Akif Pirinçci’s Umvolkung (2016) Book

Review of Sverigedemokraterna och nazismen [”The Sweden Democrats and Nazism”] by Maria Robsahm (2020)

Sweden heading towards ‘academic freedom’ as battlefield of the radical right

The Sinking of MS Estonia: The Swedish Radical Right’s Favorite Conspiracy

The Germany Synagogue Terrorist’s Manifesto Highlights Threat Of Neo-Nazism

Radical-Right Radicalization, From the Domestic to the Global

’Spöknippet’: the chilling continuities of fascist imagination in the Swedish Radical Right

How the Swedish Radical Right Hijacked Human Rights

How QAnon Followers Saw the US Inauguration

Global white supremacy cult: How the South African Radical Right bolsters US extremism

Trumpism After Trump: The Wrong Person at the Right Time?

“Siege” Culture And The Radical Right

How the Left and the Right Radicalize Each Other