Balsa Lubarda

Insights

Remove or defend Kebab? Radical right, music of the Yugoslav wars, and the perils of simplifying narratives

“Karadžiću, vodi Srbe svoje vodi Srbe svojeee…” sang Tomas joyfully as we were entering the bus in a working-class suburb of Bratislava. A member of radical right’s Kotlebists – The…

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What Hungary’s Nationalist Farmers Have Against Orban

The Hungarian far right envisages agricultural alternatives to Viktor Orban’s populism. Balint is a 30-year-old PhD student from northern Hungary, with expertise in organic farming and environmentally friendly agriculture. Well…

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5 min

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Far right ecologism and the conceptual deficiencies of eco-fascism

Based on the article “Beyond eco-fascism? Far Right Ecologism (FRE) as a framework for future inquiries”, forthcoming in Environmental Values. Over the last year, the term ‘eco-fascism’ has (re)captured the…

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Eco-Nationalism: The Nature Within Our Borders

Although the transnational nature of radical-right environmentalism is often publicly overlooked, eco-nationalism seems to be resurfacing in this time of global climate change. The ongoing fires wreaking havoc in the…

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Is the radical right really anti-climate? Some evidence from Hungary

From the Inaugural CARR Conference For three days, the Richmond University in London was not only the site of insightful and thought-provoking presentations during the inaugural CARR conference, but also…

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A short account on the experience of interviewing the far-right: anticipating ‘that’ moment

As I was anxiously finishing my beer and looking around an empty and fusty pub in inner Budapest, the prospects of my fieldwork and research appeared rather gloomy. I, a…

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5 min

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Marching with Dabrowski – what the centenary of Polish Independence can tell us about the radical right?

“I could not think of a better way to grasp what is behind the nationalist frenzy than to take part in their public events. On November 11, Poland celebrated National…

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Remove or defend Kebab? Radical right, music of the Yugoslav wars, and the perils of simplifying narratives

What Hungary’s Nationalist Farmers Have Against Orban

Far right ecologism and the conceptual deficiencies of eco-fascism

Eco-Nationalism: The Nature Within Our Borders

Is the radical right really anti-climate? Some evidence from Hungary

A short account on the experience of interviewing the far-right: anticipating ‘that’ moment

Marching with Dabrowski – what the centenary of Polish Independence can tell us about the radical right?

US Buffalo Shooting: The Depressing Predictability of Far-Right Terrorism and How to Stop It

Nasser Kurdy and David Tucker. A Reply to Hate: Forgiving My Attacker. Stuttgart: Ibidem, 2021.

Nathaniël D. B. Kunkeler. Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands: Myth-Creation and Respectability, 1931-40. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.

CARR Reform Statement

Webinar Series: The Future of Ideologies (Michael Freeden)