{"title":"Irrationality and Pathology: How Public Health Can Help to Make Sense in Right-Wing Studies","authors":"Emma Q. Tran","doi":"10.5070/rw3.25032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/rw3.25032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":496207,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Right-Wing Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141684344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The January 6, 2021, Capitol riot appeared as an extraordinary and shocking event to many American citizens. In fact, the various framings of the riot such as “insurrection,” “sedition,” or “domestic terrorism” seem to confirm the unprecedented nature of the day. By contrast, in this article we argue that January 6 can be understood in terms of its ordinariness, that is, as “the most ordinary thing that could happen” when viewed in the context of right-wing politics. We first argue that the reliance on a universalized dichotomy between authoritarianism and democracy in current research on right-wing politics in the United States tends to reify those terms, and thus miss the ordinary and routine dimension of antidemocratic practices. We subsequently propose the concept antidemocratic cultures to understand how right-wing political dispositions are fabricated through and mediated by rhetorical acts including speech, written texts, and embodied everyday practice. We analyze the rhetoric of participation of riot participants by reading their text messages, social media posts, and interviews with law enforcement and news media, as detailed in their arrest sheets. The rhetoric of participation of riot participants reveals how political dispositions are fabricated through ordinary language use and how these identities congeal in antidemocratic cultures. In the last section, we further discuss how a theory of antidemocratic cultures provides a novel framework to understand contemporary right-wing politics.
{"title":"The Ordinariness of January 6: Rhetorics of Participation in Antidemocratic Culture","authors":"Diren Valayden, Belinda Walzer, Alexandra S Moore","doi":"10.5070/rw3.1512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/rw3.1512","url":null,"abstract":"The January 6, 2021, Capitol riot appeared as an extraordinary and shocking event to many American citizens. In fact, the various framings of the riot such as “insurrection,” “sedition,” or “domestic terrorism” seem to confirm the unprecedented nature of the day. By contrast, in this article we argue that January 6 can be understood in terms of its ordinariness, that is, as “the most ordinary thing that could happen” when viewed in the context of right-wing politics. We first argue that the reliance on a universalized dichotomy between authoritarianism and democracy in current research on right-wing politics in the United States tends to reify those terms, and thus miss the ordinary and routine dimension of antidemocratic practices. We subsequently propose the concept antidemocratic cultures to understand how right-wing political dispositions are fabricated through and mediated by rhetorical acts including speech, written texts, and embodied everyday practice. We analyze the rhetoric of participation of riot participants by reading their text messages, social media posts, and interviews with law enforcement and news media, as detailed in their arrest sheets. The rhetoric of participation of riot participants reveals how political dispositions are fabricated through ordinary language use and how these identities congeal in antidemocratic cultures. In the last section, we further discuss how a theory of antidemocratic cultures provides a novel framework to understand contemporary right-wing politics.","PeriodicalId":496207,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Right-Wing Studies","volume":"26 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141685368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines the appeal of Serbian nationalist ideology among the contemporary far right. We argue that the discursive othering of Bosnian Muslims as “Turks” as well as the Serbian grand narrative presenting the Bosnian War as a civilizational struggle between Christian Europe and Islam are uniquely resonant with the popular anti-Muslim and xenophobic discourses that are mobilizing right-wing extremists across the globe. Through an analysis of Serbian and far-right discourses, we demonstrate how the patterns of representation that were used to incite and justify the violence committed against Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s are being exported to remote corners of the world via the internet, where they merge with extraneous Islamophobic and racist ideologies to inspire a new generation of extremism, hatred, and violence.
{"title":"\"Remove Kebab\": The Appeal of Serbian Nationalist Ideology among the Global Far Right","authors":"Hikmet Karčić, Monica Hanson-Green","doi":"10.5070/rw3.1677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/rw3.1677","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the appeal of Serbian nationalist ideology among the contemporary far right. We argue that the discursive othering of Bosnian Muslims as “Turks” as well as the Serbian grand narrative presenting the Bosnian War as a civilizational struggle between Christian Europe and Islam are uniquely resonant with the popular anti-Muslim and xenophobic discourses that are mobilizing right-wing extremists across the globe. Through an analysis of Serbian and far-right discourses, we demonstrate how the patterns of representation that were used to incite and justify the violence committed against Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s are being exported to remote corners of the world via the internet, where they merge with extraneous Islamophobic and racist ideologies to inspire a new generation of extremism, hatred, and violence.","PeriodicalId":496207,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Right-Wing Studies","volume":"15 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141687472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Burn after Reading: Research-Related Trauma, Burnout, and Resilience in Right-Wing Studies","authors":"Meredith L. Pruden","doi":"10.5070/rw3.25031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/rw3.25031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":496207,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Right-Wing Studies","volume":"44 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141687926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Margins to the Mainstream: A Personal Reflection on Three Decades of Studying and Teaching Far-Right Politics","authors":"Cas Mudde","doi":"10.5070/rw3.25030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/rw3.25030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":496207,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Right-Wing Studies","volume":"1 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141684199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Since 2016, there has been a flood of research on the US right spanning disciplines and methodologies. This article theorizes a conceptual heuristic drawn from the writing of Stuart Hall to integrate this scholarship. To make the case for what I term Hall’s political sociology, I stage a dialogue with Arlie Hochschild, whose 2016 ethnography Strangers in Their Own Land has become a classic in the literature. While both Hall and Hochschild stress the importance of documenting the affective nature of political subjectivities, Hochschild’s investment in a politics of reconciliation prevents her from scaling analysis up to political elites, a move that would enable her to better contextualize her findings. Hall offers a model for such an approach, as he connects political subjectivities to acts of articulation; these acts to hegemonic projects; and the impact of such projects to the conjuncture. I stylize Hall’s four-step conceptual frame as a relational cycle because it reconnects the historicizing work of conjunctural analysis to the felt experience of individual subjectivities. Beyond outlining Hall’s political sociology, I illustrate how its use as a heuristic can integrate recent research on the US right. This scheme corrects for an analytic shortcoming driven by Hochschild’s politics of reconciliation, namely a view that political progress will emerge from small-scale, cross-partisan dialogue. Though Hall offers no easy answers to the political questions of our time, his relational political sociology provides a tool for interlacing the research we have, thus rendering the massive challenges of the moment visible in all their detail.
自 2016 年以来，有关美国右翼的研究如潮水般涌现，这些研究跨越了各个学科和方法论。本文从斯图亚特-霍尔（Stuart Hall）的著作中总结出一种概念启发式理论，以整合这些学术研究。为了论证我所称的霍尔政治社会学，我与阿利-霍奇希尔德（Arlie Hochschild）进行了对话，后者在2016年出版的人种学著作《陌生人在自己的土地上》（Strangers in Their Own Land）已成为文献中的经典。虽然霍尔和霍奇希尔德都强调记录政治主体性的情感本质的重要性，但霍奇希尔德对和解政治的投入使她无法将分析范围扩大到政治精英，而这一举动将使她能够更好地将其发现与背景相结合。霍尔为这种方法提供了一种模式，因为他将政治主体性与表述行为联系起来，将这些行为与霸权项目联系起来，并将这些项目的影响与时代联系起来。我将霍尔的四步概念框架定型为关系循环，因为它将会合分析的历史化工作与个人主体性的感受体验重新联系起来。除了概述霍尔的政治社会学之外，我还说明了如何将其作为一种启发式方法来整合近期对美国右翼的研究。霍尔的和解政治学认为政治进步将产生于小规模的跨党派对话，这一观点纠正了霍尔的分析缺陷。虽然霍尔并没有为我们这个时代的政治问题提供简单的答案，但他的关系政治社会学为我们提供了一个将现有研究相互交错的工具，从而使当前的巨大挑战在所有细节中都清晰可见。
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Tim de Winkel, Ludo Gorzeman, Sofie de Wilde de Ligny, Thomas ten Heuvel, Melissa Blekkenhorst, Sander Prins, Mirko Tobias Schäfer
In this article we describe our five-year research project on the notorious radical free speech service and fringe platform Gab. During these years we scraped an entire platform, prepared it into a dataset for analysis, and opened it up to a broader community of students and researchers. Each of these projects provides us not just with a small slice of platformized far-right culture but also with a larger sphere of a fringe platform. However, the overarching goal of the Gab project was to contribute to a methodology for the study of the contemporary platformized far right. The atypical nature of the project posed many methodological, epistemological, and legal challenges. It therefore kicked off an institutional learning process about the possibilities, legal boundaries, and best practices for research compliant with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In this article we argue that the study of the platformized far right should have a thorough understanding of the medium on which the object is present, as well as the methods with which the object is captured. What is more, scholars that use digital tools and data methods for capture and analysis of web platforms must become literate in operating them. Consequently, data-driven research on the far right is naturally interdisciplinary and therefore cooperative and adherent to the principles of open science.
在这篇文章中，我们介绍了我们针对臭名昭著的激进自由言论服务和边缘平台 Gab 开展的为期五年的研究项目。在这些年里，我们废止了整个平台，将其制作成数据集进行分析，并向更广泛的学生和研究人员社区开放。这些项目不仅为我们提供了极右翼文化平台化的一小部分，也为我们提供了边缘平台的更大范围。然而，加布项目的总体目标是为研究当代平台化极右翼贡献方法论。该项目的非典型性质带来了许多方法论、认识论和法律方面的挑战。因此，它开启了一个机构学习过程，学习符合《一般数据保护条例》（GDPR）的研究的可能性、法律界限和最佳实践。在这篇文章中，我们认为对平台化极右翼的研究应透彻了解对象的存在媒介以及捕捉对象的方法。更重要的是，使用数字工具和数据方法对网络平台进行捕捉和分析的学者必须具备操作数字工具和数据方法的素养。因此，以数据为驱动的极右翼研究自然是跨学科的，因此也是合作的，并坚持开放科学的原则。
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