This intervention proposes research bricolage as means for critical engagement with conceptual constructs originating from adjacent social science disciplines. Borrowing such concepts as far-right metapolitics from political science, superordinate intersectionality from gender studies, and Web 2.0 sociotechnical affordances from digital sociology, this theoretical and methodological innovation is better equipped to examine the digital identities that are discerned in the far-right metapolitical project.
The lecture provides an innovative manner to undergird a specific methodological approach, namely Discourse Historical Approach (DHA), with a feminist ethics of capacious reflexivity, which enables researchers to triangulate successfully research ethics legislation at both EU and national level, and the guidelines for ethical internet research. The suggested research bricolage and the methodological articulations are illustrated by focusing on an important European far-right entity, which has significant transnational and national connections.
Dr. Ov Cristian NOROCEL (DrSocSci, University of Helsinki, 2014) is an Associate Professor (docent) in Gender Studies in the Department of Sociology at Lund University (Sweden). Norocel applies an intersectional lens to issues of far-right and anti-gender mobilizations, which he deploys comparatively across Europe (Sweden; Finland; Hungary; Romania).
Norocel has contributed to and served as guest editor for nine special issue projects, which tackled among others: welfare chauvinism in Critical Social Policy (with Suvi Keskinen and Martin Bak Jørgensen, 2016); radical right populism, gender and religion in Identities (with Alberta Giorgi, 2022); technocultural worldings in Feminist Media Studies (with Mia Liinason; 2024); and methodological and ethical challenges in the study of far-right and anti-gender mobilization in European Journal of Politics and Gender (with Iris B Segers, 2026).
The webinar series on Researching the Far Right: Methods and Ethics is co-organized by C-REX and the Canadian Network for Research on Security, Extremism and Society (CANSES). The series aims to facilitate a much needed discussion about the methodological, ethical, political, practical and professional challenges that arise when researching the far right.
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