Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: What’s in a name
1. What the far right is(n’t) – Omran Shroufi
2. Race, racism, and the far right: critical reflections for the field – Kurt Sengul
3. When racism seems to be the hardest word: critical reflections from studying the Lega (Nord) – George Newth
4. When the far right experiences violence: our ethical duty to the othered – Ryan Switzer
5. Ecofascism, far-right ecologism and neo-Malthusianism – Miranda Jeanne Marie Iossifidis
Part II: Positionality, standpoint, and intersectionality
6. ‘Far right studies’ and the unbearable whiteness of being – Aurelien Mondon
7. Safety and silence: oral history, far right research and the paradox of the ‘vocal minority’ – Imo Kaufman
8. On the incompleteness of ethnography: embracing and navigating failure as a principle in research on the far right – Balša Lubarda
9. Ethnographic empathy and research ethics as methodological whiteness – Catherine Tebaldi and Rae Jereza
10. Emotions in methodology: resisting violent ideological structures in the knowledge-production of extremisms – Elsa Bengtsson Meuller
11. Reflections on researching armed Nazis as an unarmed left-wing Jew: politics, privilege, and practical concerns – Aaron Winter
Part III: The haunting past: memory and far right studies
12. Heritage, archaeology, ancestry, and the far right – David Farrell-Banks and Lorna-Jane Richardson
13. Another way to do ethics: uses of the landscape in the far-right cultural milieu and the ethics of researching them – Andrew Fergus Wilson
14. Researching memory and heritage during a culture war – Meghan Tinsley, Ruth Ramsden-Karelse, Chloe Peacock, and Sadia Habib
15. Archiving the extreme: ethical challenges in sharing, researching, and teaching – Daniel Jones
16. Researching racism in racist times - Jean Beaman
Part IV: Care and safety
17. How do you respond when you feel under threat? A reflective exploration into my experience with the far right online – Alice Sibley
18. Community building as a response to care in studying the far right – Kayla Preston
19. Negotiating contradiction in success and safety: a consideration of environmental constraints on risk management – Antonia Vaughan
20. Spectre: covert research in digital far-right ‘red zones’ – Jackson Wood
21. Navigating a feminist ethics of care, ethnographic methods, and academic activism in researching men’s rights and the far right: a researcher’s struggles – Luc Cousineau
Part V: Complications of engaging far-right participants and formers
22. Ethics of listening: between criticism and empathy in oral history interviews and politically charged research contexts - Vanessa Tautter
23. Harms of the compassion narrative: ethical considerations regarding stories of disengagement from white supremacist movements – Joan Braune
24. Voices from the past: a psychosocial reflection on interacting with a far-right activist - Yutaka Yoshida
25. Interviewing the ‘unlovable’: on the challenges of conducting feminist research on far-right women – Katherine Williams
26. Examining far-right empowerment experiences using Youtube and Parler data: managing researcher safety and ethical and methodological requirements – Carina Hoerst and John Drury
Part VI: Activism and dissemination
27. Critically examining the role of the scholar in policymaking on the far right – Richard McNeil-Willson, Michael Vaughan, and Michael Zeller
28. Critical reflexivity and research on state responses to the far right – Anna A. Meier
29. An anti-racist scholar-activist ethic: working in service to racial justice – Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Laura Connelly, and Aurelien Mondon
30. The far right from the underside of history: decolonising far right studies – Isis Giraldo
31. How should journalists engage with the far right? – Gary Younge
32. Researching the far right: towards an ethics of talking ‘about’ – Katy Brown