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Prelims

Ulrike M. Vieten (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
Scott Poynting (Queensland University of Technology, Australia and Charles Sturt University, Australia)

Normalization of the Global Far Right: Pandemic Disruption?

ISBN: 978-1-83909-957-1, eISBN: 978-1-83909-956-4

Publication date: 26 September 2022

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Vieten, U.M. and Poynting, S. (2022), "Prelims", Normalization of the Global Far Right: Pandemic Disruption?, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-viii. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83909-956-420221009

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Normalization of the Global Far Right

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Normalization of the Global Far Right: Pandemic Disruption?

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ULRIKE M. VIETEN

Queen’s University Belfast, UK

AND

SCOTT POYNTING

Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Charles Sturt University, Australia

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Contents

About the Authors vii
Introduction: The Normalization of the Racist Far-Right as Global Phenomenon 1
Mainstreaming Far-Right Politics and Normalizing Racist Exclusion of Minorities 4
The Order of the Chapters 6
1. The Historical Normalization of Racist Anti-Semitism and Global 21st Century Anti-Muslim Racism 11
Linking the Everyday Present with the Past 11
“Germany would be Transformed into a Gigantic Barrack” – Testimony to the Rise of the Anti-Semitic War Machinery 15
The Continuity of Authoritarianism: Anti-Semitism and Anti-Muslim Racism 20
Concluding Remarks 24
2. Gender Toxicology: Complicity, Coloniality, and Liberal Gender Discourse 29
Reflections on the Continuity of the Gendered Colonial Mind 29
Dragging Different Histories of Male Dominance and Female Innocence in the Twentieth Century 31
The Alliance of Liberal Feminists and Anti-Muslim Racists 34
Overcoming the Bystanders’ Habitus? 37
Toxic Gender Stereotyping, the Christian Right and Banal Nationalism 39
Concluding Remarks 42
3. Crisis and Christchurch 47
In Another Country 47
Ideological Promiscuity and Replacements in the “Replacement Myth” 48
Goebbels on Speed 53
Crisis, Which Crisis? 54
Concluding Remarks 57
4. Ideological Elements of Islamophobia and their Deployment by the Far-Right 61
Basket of Deployables 61
Where Does Islamophobia Come From? 64
A New Definition and Analysis 67
Islamophobia, Imperialist “War on Terror,” and Bringing Empire Back in 70
Ideological Maneuvers 72
Concluding Remarks: Beyond Denial 74
5. Normalization disrupted? 77
Introduction 77
Summary of the Main Arguments 78
The (Post) Pandemic Situation? 79
Bibliography 85
Index 95

About the Authors

Ulrike M. Vieten, PhD, is an Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Sociology, and Fellow of the Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB). Her research focuses on the historical construction and shifting of racialized, gendered and classed group boundaries. She has published widely on theoretical and empirical aspects of European citizenship, minority ethnic identity, migration and gender, racism, and far-right-populism. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology (EJCPS), since 2020. She is active with the Britain-based sociological activists’ network Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment (SSAHE).

Scott Poynting is an Adjunct Professor, Center for Islamic Studies and Civilization at Charles Sturt University, researching on Islamophobia. He is also Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology. He is a co-author of Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other.

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