Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice

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Introduction: Researching the far right
PART I: Disciplinary overviews
	1. Political science approaches to the far right
	2. Historians and the contemporary far right: To bring (or not to bring) the past into the present?
	3. Sociological survey of the far right
	4. Right thinking: Criminologists on right-wing extremism
	5. Getting inside 'the head' of the Far Right: Psychological responses to the socio-political context
	6. Neo-nationalism and far right studies: Anthropological perspectives
PART II: Quantitative approaches and online research
	7. Estimating the far right vote with aggregate data
	8. Methods for mapping far right violence
	9. Challenges and opportunities of social media research: Using Twitter and Facebook to investigate far right discourses
	10. Big data and the resurgence of the far right within the United States of America
	11. Researching far-right hypermedia environments: A case-study of the German online platform einprozent.de
PART III: Interviewing the far right
	12. Methodology matters: Researching the far right
	13. Interviewing members of the white power movement in the United States: Reflections on research strategies and challenges of right-wing extremists
	14. Life-history interviews with rightwing extremists
PART IV: Ethnographic studies of the far right
	15. An observational study of the Norwegian far right: Some reflections
	16. Overcoming racialisation in the field: Practising ethnography on the far right as a researcher of colour
	17. Negotiating ethical dilemmas during an ethnographic study of anti-minority activism: A personal reflection on the adoption of a ‘nondehumanization’ principle
	18. Whiteness, class and the 'communicative community': A doctoral researcher’s journey to a local political ethnography
PART V: The significance of place, culture and performance when researching the far right
	19. Studying local context to fathom far-right success
	20. Studying the peripheries: Iconography and embodiment in far right youth subcultures
	21. Normalization to the right: Analyzing the micro-politics of the far-right
PART VI: The intersection of academic and activist positionalities and disseminating far right research
	22. Getting insights and inside far right groups
	23. From demonization to normalization: Reflecting on far right research
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