Normalization of the Global Far Right
Pandemic Disruption?
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Exploring how the boundary between the extremist far right and centre-right parties and politics became blurred, Normalization of the Global Far Right: Pandemic Disruption deconstructs one of the most pressing issues of today: the rise of the far right. Taking a critical look at the ‘normalisation’ of far-right thinking underpinned by gendered racisms, Vieten and Poynting trace the emergence of transnational far right populist movements and how these have been shaped by European colonialism, white supremacy, and ideological legacies of the Empire alike.
Introduction
- Chapter 1. The historical normalisation of racist anti-Semitism and global 21st century anti-Muslim racism
- Chapter 2. Gender Toxicology: complicity, coloniality, and liberal gender discourse
- Chapter 3. Crisis and Christchurch
- Chapter 4. Ideological Elements of Islamophobia and their Deployment by the Far Right
- Chapter 5. Normalization disrupted?
Vieten and Poynting contextualize some of the past and present processes of normalisation with respect to gender toxicology, authoritarianism, and racisms and explore ambitiously the banality of everyday racisms and the trans-nationalising dynamics before and beyond the pandemic. As they argue the digital tools of the 21st century push further and rapidly the global far right to the centre of capitalist societies. The book illustrates the political urgency of unwrapping normalising tendencies and the global links of the mushrooming far-right.
Dr Ulrike M. Vieten is a Lecturer in Sociology, working at Queens University Belfast (QUB), since 2015. Her work focuses on situated, constructed, and shifting gendered, classed and racialised group boundaries in historical and contemporary perspectives.
Prof Scott Poynting is Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation at Charles Sturt University and Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology. He has worked extensively on Islamophobia and on racialisation and criminalisation of Muslims since 9/11.