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

  • Andreas Önnerfors
  • January 21, 2021
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)

  • James Downes
  • December 16, 2020
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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The radical right is exploiting a Swedish teen’s murder

  • Michael Colborne
  • June 18, 2020
The tale concocted about Tommie Lindh’s death has become an excuse to target minorities, particularly Muslims, with violence. In early May 2020, a 19-year-old was murdered in a small, relatively…
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COVID-19 Casts a Shadow Over Swedish Exceptionalism

  • Mette Wiggen
  • June 14, 2020
Sweden’s leftist coalition has taken an authoritarian approach to the COVID-19 pandemic that is more suited to governments on the far right. Sweden has dealt with the global COVID-19 pandemic…
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Review of Sverigedemokraterna och nazismen [”The Sweden Democrats and Nazism”] by Maria Robsahm (2020)

  • Andreas Önnerfors
  • April 20, 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

  • Andreas Önnerfors
  • January 21, 2020
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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  • 7 min
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The Sinking of MS Estonia: The Swedish Radical Right’s Favorite Conspiracy

  • Andreas Önnerfors
  • January 18, 2020
More than 25 years have passed since the tragedy, yet a web of conspiracy theories that has been spun around the disaster has fueled the Swedish radical right’s imagination. On…
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’Spöknippet’: the chilling continuities of fascist imagination in the Swedish Radical Right

  • Andreas Önnerfors
  • July 24, 2019
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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How the Swedish Radical Right Hijacked Human Rights

  • Andreas Önnerfors
  • May 18, 2019
It can be difficult to separate the alleged watchdogs of freedom from the bloodhounds of the populist radical-right discourse. On June 6, 2017, Sweden’s national holiday, charges were filed with…
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Meme warfare in the Swedish context

  • Jacob Davey
  • November 6, 2018
The alt-right mobilised online to back far-right parties at Sweden’s general election – but are their tactics no longer effective? Recent years have seen the far and extreme right wing…
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