Neo-Nazi Violence and Ideology

Changing Attitudes toward Violence in Sweden's Skinhead and Post-Skinhead Eras

Bibliographic Data

ID4087307
AuthorsChrister Mattsson (0000-0002-9128-9238, The Segerstedt Institute, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, corresponding author), T Johansson (0000-0003-2047-4943, The Segerstedt Institute, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden)
Year2023
Volume35
Issue1
Pages104-117
Publication date2023-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTerrorism and Political Violence (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0954-6553 • E-ISSN: 1556-1836
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09546553.2021.1871898
OpenAlexW3126087374
LanguageEN
Citations received3

This study examines how ideology is narrated in the life stories of former and active Swedish neo-Nazis. Employing a social psychological and generational perspective toward the meaning-making process of the neo-Nazi ideology, this study investigates the role ideology plays in both former and active adherents’ narratives of engagement in the neo-Nazi movement. This study also analyzes the differences in how former and active neo-Nazis talk about violence and violent acts in the movement. In doing so, this study shows that there has been a decisive shift between activists from the skinhead era and post-skinhead era in respect to how they address and articulate ideological conviction and violence. Results also indicate that Sweden’s neo-Nazi movement has undergone an intellectualization process over the past few decades, with violence becoming increasingly politicized

Art · Conviction · Criminology · Ideology · Literature · Narrative · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European history and politics · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements

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