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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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Explaining Electoral Support for the Far-Right Sweden Democrats (2016–2017)

Drawing on public opinion data from 2016–2017, Dr James F. Downes and graduate Jeremy Lok examine the ‘rise’ in support for the Sweden Democrats, in the context of the refugee…

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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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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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4 min

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Why We Shouldn’t Call the Far Right an Unpopular Minority

Framing far-right populist parties as just an unpopular minority downplays the actual impact the rise of far-right populism has already had on European societies. Images of violent far-right groups marching…

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4 min

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Does Sweden’s mainstream have to talk to the Sweden Democrats?

With the media on their side, the SD has managed to persuade many unionised women in the health service that it is the only party for them. Does the mainstream…

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5 min

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The Far-Right Sweden Democrats Are Selling Dystopia To Voters…And It’s Working

Ahead of the September 9 elections, the violent imaginaries of this radical right party with white supremacist roots are taking hold. The populist radical right Sweden Democrats are heading for yet another…

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

Explaining Electoral Support for the Far-Right Sweden Democrats (2016–2017)

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

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

Why We Shouldn’t Call the Far Right an Unpopular Minority

Does Sweden’s mainstream have to talk to the Sweden Democrats?

The Far-Right Sweden Democrats Are Selling Dystopia To Voters…And It’s Working

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)