Due to high demand, the CARR Organising Committee has decided to extend the call for paper and panel abstracts to 31st January 2020. For those applying during the extension period, please indicate on your application as to the urgency of your travel arrangements so that we can prioritize those needing decisions quickly. We look forward… Continue reading “*CfP Deadline Extended* – CARR’S 2ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE MAY 13-15, 2020 – STUDYING “THE RADICAL RIGHT GLOBALLY””
Call for Chapters Routledge Handbook of Non-Violent Extremism: Groups, Perspectives and New Debates Background For a long-time overshadowed by jihadi extremism, non-violent (or vocal) extremism has been the centre of inflamed political and academic debates throughout the world (Cordesman, 2017; Gilligan, 2019; Hamid, 2016; Wali, 2013; Whitespunner, 2018). This debate is fuelled by the massive… Continue reading “Call for Chapters: New Routledge Handbook on Non-Violent Extremism”
Here in a special interview with the Discourses & Society journal, CARR Senior Fellow Professor Ruth Wodak talks about her research into right-wing populism and the radical right and how ‘discursive shifts’ have enabled this: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0957926519889109
Last year the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR) held its first annual conference from May 15-17 2019 at the Richmond Campus of the American University, London. We were treated to excellent keynotes by Professor Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Professor Cas Mudde, and Mr. Mark Potok. The conference opened with the UK’s Commission for Countering… Continue reading “Call for Papers: CARR’s 2nd Annual Conference May 13-15, 2020 – Studying “The Radical Right Globally””
In ASEN-CARR’s inaugural podcast, CARR Doctoral Fellow Nicholas James speaks to Senior Fellow Dr. Craig McCann, who is an expert on preventing violent extremism. Dr. McCann researches, lectures, and writes on far right extremism, counter terrorism, and preventing and countering violent extremism. In this 45-minute interview, he speaks to Nicholas about recent developments in preventing… Continue reading “ASEN-CARR Blogpost #1 with Craig McCann”
What is deradicalisation? And what does it look like for individuals involved in radical right movements? As part of a new EU-STRIVE funded project with Hedayah, CARR will be unpicking these questions along with practitioners, former violent extremists and academic experts in a yearlong webinar series looking at far right deradicalisation good practices. Taking an hour-long discussion-based, question-and-answer format with… Continue reading “CARR-Hedayah Far Right De-Radicalisation Webinar Series”
The extreme right in Britain has changed and developed in recent times, while its impact can be felt across a wide variety of professions. From policing to teaching, and from healthcare to law, many professionals can find themselves dealing with people with extreme right activists, or whose lives have been affected by the consequences of… Continue reading “Extreme Right Aware Training Course, 20 September 2019”
We have studiously declined comment to date, but the misleading allegations of a current working relationship with Dr Eoin Lenihan make this correction of the record, regrettably, necessary. Dr Lenihan is not, nor has ever been, ‘currently working’ with the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR). We were in communication with Dr Lenihan… Continue reading “CARR Statement Concerning Dr Eoin Lenihan”
My study of the radical right in my book Voting Radical Right in Western Europe focused on the institutions that determine the “rules of the game” – in particular, electoral systems and the difference between proportional representation and first-past-the-post systems. I argued that electoral systems need to be taken into account when comparing party systems… Continue reading “Voting Radical Right in Western Europe “Rules of the Game””
Dear Friends and Colleagues, I hope this finds you well. It is with great delight that the steering group and I write to you to confirm that CARR’s inaugural conference will be happening on 15-17th May 2019 at the Richmond campus of the American University, London. As you can see from the Call for Papers (linked below), we are… Continue reading “Century of the Radical Right: CARR Inaugural Conference CfP”
