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The Selective Iconoclasm Of The Far-Right
On May 25th, a great part of the world was shaken after watching how the 46-year-old US citizen George Floyd was killed at the hands of four local police agents while he…
The Infiltration of Law Enforcement by Racist Extremists
As protests continue to bring cities across the United States to a standstill, the problem of racist policing is more evident than ever before. The killing of George Floyd at the…
Right-Wing Push For Premature Reopenings Will Prolong Pandemic
President Trump, GOP governors, and members of his base who are pushing to reopen too soon while Dr. Fauci warns of “needless suffering and death.” In an interview on Fox…
Local policy responses to anti-Islamic protest in the UK need to consider both exclusionary and inclusionary approaches
Over the past ten years, the UK has seen significant shifts on the far right. As the prospect of parliamentary representation by the neo-fascist British National Party petered out in…
PEGIDA turns 4 – will AfD be among the well-wishers?
Four years ago on October 20, 2014, ‘Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident’ (PEGIDA) staged their first-ever demonstration in the city of Dresden. About 350 people attended. Soon,…
Automated event extraction tools for the study of the far-right
Protest event analysis (PEA) is a method of quantitative content analysis with a long tradition in the study of collective mobilization. Despite its limitations,[i] it offers social scientists the opportunity…
What Drives the Politics of Rage?
In the past, emotions in politics were too often negatively defined, dismissed as symptoms of immaturity and irrationality. “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”…