Epistemologies of ignorance in far right studies
The invisibilisation of racism and whiteness in times of populist hype
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9537637 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aurelien Mondon (0000-0002-3453-7821, University of Bath, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 876-894 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Acta Politica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-6810 • E-ISSN: 1741-1416 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/s41269-022-00271-6 |
| OpenAlex | W4309418201 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 40 |
Research on the far right has been a booming field for decades now, with far-right parties generally being much more researched than their right, centre and left counterparts, even when they are marginal in terms of politics or electoral support. Yet, for a field that is notorious for its lively definitional debates and tendency to evolve and reinvent itself terminologically, it has appeared unwilling to engage with the concepts of race, racism and whiteness, or with its very positioning in political structures. Through a mixed-methods discursive approach, this article analyses the titles and abstracts of all articles published in peer-reviewed journal in the sub-field of far right studies between 2016 and 2021 ( n = 2543) to highlight which terms and concepts are primed and which are obscured. This article highlights a tendency to prime euphemising terms and concepts such as ‘populism’ and avoid those which engage with systemic and structural forms of oppression such as racism and whiteness. This article thus aims to both map and make sense of the absence of whiteness and racism in the corpus by arguing that it is a symbol of the ongoing presence of colourblind approaches and a lack of reckoning with the scale and pervasion of systemic racism in contemporary societies
Far right · Field (mathematics · Ignorance · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Populism · Race (biology · Racism · Sociology · Gender Studies · German legal, social, and political studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Populism, Right-Wing Movements
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| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 12,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |