This webinar will engage with issues of terminology and why they matter in understanding the resurgence of far-right politics. In particular, speakers will discuss issues of definitions, euphemisation and mainstreaming. A particular focus will be placed on the role we play as researchers in either combatting or legitimising the far right through our work. It will be moderated by Aurelien Mondon.
Link to join Webinar: https://uio.zoom.us/j/63038666641
Speakers:
Katy Brown is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Media Studies at Maynooth University. Her research focuses on the mainstreaming of the far right, centring principally on the role that mainstream actors play in normalising far-right discourse. Her current project examines media reporting on the far right across Ireland, France, Italy and the UK. By analysing broadsheet coverage of these groups and interviewing journalists, the aim is to co-create guidelines for ethical reporting which counters rather than normalises far-right politics.
Miranda Iossifidis is a Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University. Her research interests are to do with speculative populationist and ecofascist futures, reproductive and climate justice, and creative and collaborative methods.
George Newth is a Lecturer at the University of Bath. His research focuses principally on the how far-right parties attempt to normalise their reactionary politics via discourses of common sense. This links to broader research interests pertaining to the role of populism and nativism in far right articulations of regionalist and nationalist politics. His book with Routledge, Fathers of the Lega: Populist Regionalism and Populist Nationalism in Historical Perspective, investigates the historical roots of the Italian Republic’s oldest surviving political party, the populist far-right Lega (Nord), tracing its origins to post-war Italy.
Omran Shroufi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Communication Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he is investigating how the far right engages with audiovisual fiction. Omran completed a PhD in Politics at the University of York where he examined the emergence of pro-Israeli far-right parties in West Europe. His research interests include far-right studies, far-right ideology, German politics and (discourses about) populism and anti-populism.
The Webinar series on Researching the Far Right: Methods and Ethics discusses the methodological, ethical, political, personal, practical and professional issues and challenges that arise when researching far-right politics. From this Autumn, the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX - University of Oslo) has the great privilege of collaborating with the Reactionary Politics Research Network (RPRN - University of Bath) and the Centre for Alternatives to Social and Economic Inequalities – (CASEI - Lancaster University) to discuss researching the far right from a more critical perspective. The topics addressed in the webinars will be based on the volume 'The Ethics of Researching the Far Right: Critical Approaches and Reflections' (Manchester University Press- Racism, Resistance and Social Change series), edited by Antonia Vaughan, Joan Braune, Meghan Tinsley, and Aurelien Mondon.
Make sure to join us on zoom on the third Thursday of each month from 3:00 to 4:30 pm (CET)!