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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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4 min

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The radical right is exploiting a Swedish teen’s murder

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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7 min

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COVID-19 Casts a Shadow Over Swedish Exceptionalism

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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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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7 min

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The Sinking of MS Estonia: The Swedish Radical Right’s Favorite Conspiracy

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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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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10 min

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How the Swedish Radical Right Hijacked Human Rights

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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5 min

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Meme warfare in the Swedish context

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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7 min

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Holocaust survivors in Sweden– the ‘straw men’ for the radical right (Part 2)

The right-wing populist perpetuum mobile Like many others, appalled by what I find extremely dubious and divisive rhetoric in disarming the credibility of independent testimony from Holocaust survivors, I started…

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

The radical right is exploiting a Swedish teen’s murder

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

The Sinking of MS Estonia: The Swedish Radical Right’s Favorite Conspiracy

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

How the Swedish Radical Right Hijacked Human Rights

Holocaust survivors in Sweden– the ‘straw men’ for the radical right (Part 2)

Trump’s Exploitation Of Christianity And Assault On Women’s Rights

Portfolio Distributions of Radical-Right Cabinet Ministers

Is Germany’s AfD using COVID-19 measures to its benefit?

Live Free or Die: America vs. Science

At the “Stop the Steal” Rally, DC: A Survey of Far-Right Rhetoric and Symbology