The Extreme Gone Mainstream by Miller-Idriss Cynthia

Author:Miller-Idriss, Cynthia
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-03-16T04:00:00+00:00

Local, National, Global

Far right extremist subcultures and movements have long been analyzed through national lenses, and for good reason: such movements have primarily been organized around national themes, politics, and identities. Far right politicians regularly appeal to themes of national restoration and rejuvenation; nationalist myths and legends rely on narratives, legacies, and fantasies specific to particular nations and tribes; contemporary debates about belonging reference immigrant groups that are largely specific to local migration patterns. The previous three chapters have highlighted how particular national(ist) legacies show up in the coded symbols deployed in brands marketed to the far right in Germany. From the numeric code “88” (signifying HH, or Heil Hitler) and Nazi references to the use of Viking, Germanic, and Norse mythology, much of the iconography in German far right subcultural style distinctly relates to German nationhood.

Because of the decisively national frame of far right political movements, most research on the far right similarly studies national contexts. Scholars have analyzed fascism in Italy, the far right in Hungary and the United States, or contemporary parties like the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) and the British National Party (BNP), to name just a few examples.7 Research that has gone beyond individual country analyses has tended to focus on cross-national comparisons by contrasting far right political rhetoric, xenophobia, strategies and repertoires, and voting patterns across groups of countries or regions.8 But in fact, many of these nationalist movements have distinctly and strikingly global aspects.

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