The Rise of the Far Right in Europe: Populist Shifts and 'Othering'

by Gabriella Lazaridis (Editor), Giovanna Campani (Editor), Annie Benveniste (Editor)

Overview

The results of the last European Elections of 2014 confirmed the rise of right and far right 'populist' parties across the EU. The success of a range of parties, such as Denmark’s Dansk Folskeparti,  Slovenia’s Slovenska demokratska stranka, France’s Front National, Greece’s Golden Dawn, the United Kingdom Independence Party, Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement in Italy and the Austrian FPÖ, has been perceived as a political wave which is transforming the face of the European Parliament, and challenging at some level the hegemony of the 'big four' well-established European political forces that lead the Strasbourg’s assembly: the ALDE, EPP, S&D and Greens/ALE.

As 'populism' has become a major issue in many EU countries, this collection aims to provide a critical understanding of related trends and recommend ways in which they can be challenged both in policy and praxis, by using the gender-race-ethnicity-sexual orientation intersectionality approach.

This international volume combines extensive transnational comparative data analysis, as well as research at discursive, attitudinal and behavioural levels.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137556783
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/05/2016
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	289
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gabriella Lazaridis is Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester, UK.

Giovanna Campani is Professor of Intercultural Education, Gender Anthropology and Intercultural Communication, University of Florence, Italy.

Annie Benveniste is a Professor in the Department of Educational Sciences as well as for the Masters on Gender Studies at the University of Paris 8, France.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Concept and Its Definitions; Giovanna Campani, Gabriella Lazaridis and Annie Benveniste.- 2. Neo fascism, from the XXth Century to the Third Millennium: the Case of Italy; Giovanna Campani.- 3. Far Right Movements in France: the Chief Role of National Front and the Rise of Islamophobia; Annie Benveniste and Etienne Pingaud.- 4. Hegemonic Discourse of Difference and Inequality: Right-wing organizations in Austria; Birgit Sauer and Edma Ajanovic.- 5. Right Wing Populism in Denmark: People, Nation and Welfare in the Construction of the ‘Other’; Birte Siim and Susi Meret.- 6. Populism in Slovenian Context between Ethno-nationalism and Re-traditionalization; Mojca Pajnik, Roman Kuhar and Iztok Šori.- 7. The Post-communist Rise of National Populism: Bulgarian paradoxes; Anna Krasteva.- 8. Posing for Legitimacy?: Identity and Praxis of Far Right Populism in Greece; Gabriella Lazaridis and Vasiliki Tsagkroni.- 9. Majority Identitarian Populism in Britain; Gabriella Lazaridis and Vasiliki Tsagkroni