Normalization of the Global Far Right: Pandemic Disruption?

Exploring how the boundary between the extremist far right and centre-right parties and politics became blurred, Normalization of the Global Far Right: Pandemic Disruption deconstructs one of the most pressing issues of today: the rise of the far right. Taking a critical look at the ‘normalisation’ of far-right thinking underpinned by gendered racisms, Vieten and Poynting trace the emergence of transnational far right populist movements and how these have been shaped by European colonialism, white supremacy, and ideological legacies of the Empire alike.

Dr Ulrike M. Vieten is a Lecturer in Sociology, working at Queens University Belfast (QUB), since 2015. Her work focuses on situated, constructed, and shifting gendered, classed and racialised group boundaries in historical and contemporary perspectives.

Prof Scott Poynting is Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation at Charles Sturt University and Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology. He has worked extensively on Islamophobia and on racialisation and criminalisation of Muslims since 9/11.