Full Description
This volume is a timely contribution to the current debates and potential efforts to study and counter the phenomena of extreme right violence in a period when the rise of right-wing extremism is being witnessed across the globe. Against this backdrop, the violent radicalisation and extremism of individuals and groups belonging to the extreme right threaten to undermine and destabilize societies and democratic orders, leaving a research gap that has only started to be filled in recent years, but that is still quite wide when it comes to counter-terrorism approaches to extreme right violence. Learning from the past, and trying to avoid similar mistakes, this volume creates a much-needed space for open, honest, and ethical debate around countering extreme right violence, answering social and political calls to debate how to counter this kind of violence. This volume brings together a group of interdisciplinary scholars to contribute to national and international, academic and policy debates about countering extreme right violence from a critical perspective.
Volume I focuses particularly on exploring how extreme right violence has been approached, narrated and made sense of in different spatial and temporal contexts, examining how political actors such as media and politicians portray the threat of and actual violence perpetrated by the extreme right, deconstructing current counter-terrorism approaches, and formulating a critical approach to researching extreme right violence. It will be of great interest to all students of terrorism studies, security studies, international relations, and political science in general.
The chapters in this book were originally published in Critical Studies on Terrorism.
Contents
Introduction—CTS and Right-wing terrorism and counterterrorism: Volume I, The politics of labelling political violence 1. Critical terrorism studies and the far-right: beyond problems and solutions? 2. Meaning and context in analysing extremism: the banalisation of the far-right in Spanish public controversies 3. Let's not put a label on it: right-wing terrorism in the news 4. "Is this terrorism?" The Italian media and the Macerata shooting 5. Press coverage of lone-actor terrorism in the UK and Denmark: shaping the reactions of the public, affected communities and copycat attackers 6. "Terrorism", "democracy" and the Spanish 1978 "constitution": transitional concepts, post-transitional metaphors 7. Erasing historical violence from the study of violent extremism: memorialization of white supremacy at Stone Mountain, United States 8. Feral fascists and deep green guerrillas: infrastructural attack and accelerationist terror 9. Countering far-right threat through Britishness: the Prevent duty in further education 10. Better researchers, better people? The dangers of empathetic research on the extreme right
