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The Atlanta Shootings Reveal A Blind Spot In Far-Right Studies

The recent racist and misogynistic murders that claimed the lives of 8 people—6 of them Asian women—in Atlanta have spurred much discussion about the nature of racism, misogyny, and Christian…

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Collecting Hate – The Ethics of Archiving and Researching on the Radical and Far Right

Introduction As a research centre focused on the far right and anti-fascism, the Searchlight Archive at the University of Northampton has increasingly come up against questions of the ethics involved…

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Moving Away from Islamist Extremism: Assessing Counter Narrative Responses to the Far-Right Online

Over the past decade and a half, counter-narratives – defined as ‘messages that…[demystify], deconstruct or delegitimise extremist narratives’ (Tuck and Silverman 2016: 65) – have become a key part of…

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Understanding the Dynamics of the Far Right

The extreme right is not a single entity but rather is a highly diverse, polycratic movement set across countless small organizations, or groupuscules. While this article is not about the…

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5 min

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The Influence of Memes on Far-Right Radicalisation

Memes remain an important potential influence on far-right online radicalisation and cannot be overlooked as an aspect of internet culture. The far right has always thrived in the online space,…

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4 min

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“#CoronaJihad”: How the Far-Right in India is Responding to the Pandemic

A number of far-right extremists have recently taken to social media platforms to spread conspiratorial content about COVID-19. Such conspiracy theories range from the virus being a biological weapon created…

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6 min

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Amid COVID-19, Trump Attempts To Rewrite History

The far-right has always created “alt-histories” and used historical revisionism to protect their power. President Trump is no different. In 2017, Kellyanne Conway, counselor to US President Donald Trump, coined…

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For the Far Right, the COVID-19 Crisis Is a PR Opportunity

Well-organized far-right movements aren’t just lending a hand during the current COVID-19 crisis, but taking advantage of the occasion as a branding and public relations opportunity. In photo after photo…

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4 min

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Zoom-Bombing and the Far-Right’s Latest Assault on College Communities

For the modern far right in America, higher education is a major battleground. Whether as targets for hate or as potential recruiting grounds, college campuses have consistently been on the…

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6 min

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Is the English far-right hermeneutically marginalised?

In Epistemic Injustice: The Power and Ethics of Knowing, Miranda Fricker introduces the theory of epistemic injustice, an injustice that someone encounters when their status as a knower, thus a…

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The Atlanta Shootings Reveal A Blind Spot In Far-Right Studies

Collecting Hate – The Ethics of Archiving and Researching on the Radical and Far Right

Moving Away from Islamist Extremism: Assessing Counter Narrative Responses to the Far-Right Online

Understanding the Dynamics of the Far Right

The Influence of Memes on Far-Right Radicalisation

Amid COVID-19, Trump Attempts To Rewrite History

For the Far Right, the COVID-19 Crisis Is a PR Opportunity

Zoom-Bombing and the Far-Right’s Latest Assault on College Communities

Is the English far-right hermeneutically marginalised?

How Exactly Should We Hold The Insurrectionists Accountable?

The CARR Interview Series: Michael Cole, CARR’s Head of Doctoral Fellows

On the comparative study of denialism and conspiracy theories (Part II). Detecting Attacks on History: A Case Study in Bosnia Denialism

Guillaume Faye, the “Golden One” and the Metapolitical Legion

Populism Research Unit-Ideology Research Unit- Mini Conference