Extreme Right Activists in Europe: Through the magnifying glass

by Bert Klandermans; Free Univers

• ISBN13: 9780415358279
• ISBN10: 0415358272
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Since the eighties, one of the main political changes in Western Europe has been the electoral upsurge of extreme right-wing parties such as the French FN, the Flemish Vlaams Blok, the Austrian FPO, or the Italian Alleanza nazionale. However, while the electoral support of these movements has been studied extensively, their membership has largely been ignored. Through the Magnifying Glass: The World of Extreme Right Activists redresses this imbalance by examining "extreme right wing activists" and asking: Who are they? Why do they join? Why do they stay? How similar or how different are they from one country to another? Countries examined by this book include Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. Drawing upon extensive research and featuring contributions from distinguished and world renowned social psychologists and political scientists, this book provides the most detailed comparative study yet published of the psychology of right-wing extremist activists.This book is essential reading for students and academics with interests in right wing extremism, social movements and European politics.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
Notes on contributors	ix
Series editors' preface	xi
Preface	xv
PART I The environment	1	(64)
Right-wing extremism as a social movement	3	(13)
Bert Klandermans
Nonna Mayer
Links with the past	16	(12)
Bert Klandermans
Nonna Mayer
Context, alliances and conflict	28	(14)
Bert Klandermans
Nonna Mayer
Political demand and supply	42	(9)
Bert Klandermans
Nonna Mayer
Writing life-histories: interviewing extreme right-wing activists	51	(14)
Team Members
PART II The interviewees	65	(212)
Italy: the offspring of fascism	67	(26)
Patrizia Milesi
Antonio Chirumbolo
Patrizia Catellani
France: a two-centuries-old galaxy	93	(34)
Valerie Lafont
Extreme right-wing activism in the Flemish part of Belgium: manifestation of racism or nationalism?	127	(24)
Hans De Witte
`Doing it for Germany': a study of Die Republikaner and Junge Freiheit	151	(21)
Ludger Klein
Bernd Simon
The Netherlands: stigmatized outsiders	172	(32)
Annette Linden
Bert Klandermans
One root, different branches: identity, injustice and schism	204	(20)
Patrizia Catellani
Patrizia Milesi
Alberto Crescentini
Identity in German right-wing extremism: levels, functions and processes	224	(24)
Ludger Klein
Bernd Simon
Do right- and left-wing extremists have anything in common?	248	(21)
Antonio Chirumbolo
Nonna Mayer
Hans De Witte
Through the magnifying glass: the world of extreme right activists	269	(8)
Bert Klandermans
Nonna Mayer
Appendices	277	(16)
Bibliography	293	(14)
Index	307