Full Description
This book is the first collection of scholarship featuring both Canadian and American scholarship on the resurgent right-wing extremist movement in the two countries. It is particularly timely given the recent rise in political populism that has engendered renewed activism from extreme right contingents. Trump's right-wing populist and white nationalist political campaign has galvanized Canadian and American white supremacist ideologies, identities, movements and practices. Leading Canadian and American scholars are brought together to explore a contemporary array of current dynamics, patterns and characteristics associated with the movement in each country. Split into four sections, it provides an introduction to extremism in the 21st century, it examines studying extremism, forms of extremist activity and violence, and the responses. The collection allows comparisons to be drawn out from the distinct treatments of each country. It speaks to students as well as scholarsin social sciences departments, including criminology, sociology, social justice, and terrorism, peace and security studies, and political-violence related programs.
Contents
Part 1. Thinking About Right-wing Extremism in North America.- Chapter 1. Introduction (Barbara Perry, Jeffrey Greunewald, Ryan Scrivens).- Chapter 2. Understanding Extremism: Frames of Analysis of the Far Right (Randy Blazak).- Chapter 3. Blurring the Boundaries of Mainstream and Extreme: Contexts and Contours of Right-wing Extremism in Canada (Barbara Perry).- Chapter 4. Trump and the Alt Right: The Mainstreaming of White Nationalism (Tanner Mirrlees).- Chapter 5. Asymmetric Coverage of Asymmetric Violence: How the U.S. Print News Media Report Far Right Terrorism (Erin M. Kearns and Allison Betus).- Chapter 6. Check All That Apply: Challenges in Tracking Ideological Movements That Motivate Far-Right Terrorism (Erin Miller, Elizabeth Yates, and Sheehan Kane).- Part 2. Diversity Within the Right-wing Extremist Movement.- Chapter 7. 'We Are the News Now': The Role of Networked Conspiracy and the Quebec 'Tweetosphere' in Shaping the Narrative around the Anti-COVID-19 Restrictions (Samuel Tanner and Aurélie Campana).- Chapter 8. By Ballot or by Bullet: Fantasies of Violence in the Patriot/Militia Movement in the United States (Sam Jackson).- Chapter 9. Birds of a feather: A comparative analysis of white supremacist and violent male supremacist discourses (Meredith Pruden, Ayse Lokmanoglu, Anne Peterscheck, and Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage).- Chapter 10. They're not all the same: a longitudinal comparison of violent and non-violent right-wing identities (Garth Davies, Ryan Scrivens, Tiana Gaudette, and Richard Frank).- Chapter 11. No Longer Alone: Lone Wolves, Wolf Packs and Made for Web TV Specials (Jeffrey Kaplan).- Part 3. Where the Action Is: Right-wing Extremist Activities.- Chapter 12. Far Right Extremist Violence in the United States (Steven Chermak, Joshua Freilich, , William Parkin, Jeff Gruenewald, Colleen Mills, Brent Klein, Leevia Dillon, and Celinet Duran).- Chapter 13. Pathways to Hate: Applyingan Integrated Social Control-Social Learning Model to Hate Violence by Far-Right Extremists (Colleen Mills).- Chapter 14. Far-Right Extremists' Use of the Internet: Emerging Trends in the Empirical Literature (Ryan Scrivens, Tiana Gaudette, Maura Conway, and Thomas J. Holt).- Chapter 15. Far-Right Violence and Extremism - Global Convergence(Arie Perliger and Michael Mills).- Chapter 16. The Nexus of Right-Wing Extremism and the Canadian Armed Forces (Philip McCristall, David C. Hofmann, and Shayna Perry).- Part 4. Responses to far-right extremism.- Chapter 17. More than Walking Away: Barriers to Disengagement among Former White Supremacists (Steven Windisch, Pete Simi, Kathleen Blee, and Matthew DeMichele ).- Chapter 18. Confronting Online Extremism: Strategies, Promises, and Pitfalls (James Hawdon and Matthew Costello).- 19. Criminal Justice Responses To Right-Wing Extremist Violence In The United States (Jeff Gruenewald, Katie Ratcliff, and Hayden Lucas).
