Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
About the Book Series
This book series focuses upon national, transnational and global manifestations of fascist, far right and right-wing politics primarily within a historical context but also drawing on insights and approaches from other disciplinary perspectives. Its scope also includes anti-fascism, radical-right populism, extreme-right violence and terrorism, cultural manifestations of the far right, and points of convergence and exchange with the mainstream and traditional right.
Global Far-Right Ecologies: Trends, Issues and Responses
1st Edition
Edited
By Lise Benoist, George Edwards, Bernhard Forchtner, Balša Lubarda, Sonja Pietiläinen, Kjell Vowles
July 17, 2026
This book explores far-right authoritarian and exclusionary interpretations of environmental crises that are gaining traction globally. While research on the political ecology of the far right has grown substantially over the last decade, it has largely focused on ‘Western’, especially European, ...
The Anti-Fascist Novel in Britain 1923–2023: 12 Authors Take Sides
1st Edition
By D. K. Renton
July 07, 2026
This book explores the anti‑fascist novel in Britain: its origins in activists’ experience, its solutions to questions of how to organise. Some of the works Renton discusses are classics of twentieth‑century literature including Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Kazuo Ishiguro’s The ...
The Evolving Radical Right in the Early Twenty-First Century: Liberty Under Siege
1st Edition
Edited
By Ken Fuchsman, Brigitte Demeure
June 18, 2026
This book investigates the dynamics of expansion and normalization of the radical right in the early twenty-first century. The radical right’s popularity with voters dramatically increased, it even enabled twice the election of Trump as a chief executive in the United States. The main focus of this...
Fascist Italy in the Age of Corporatism: Searching for a Third Way
1st Edition
By Alessio Gagliardi
May 22, 2026
The interwar period was marked in Europe by the rediscovery of corporatism as a possible solution to the crucial problems of modern mass society. This was the result of general changes across industrialised countries in the relationship between the state and social groups. In Italy, it took on a ...
Frege and Fascism
1st Edition
By Stephen D'Arcy
May 22, 2026
This book is the first to examine in minutiae the politics of Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), and his connections with various traditions of far-right and fascist thought. Frege was a philosopher of logic, language, and mathematics. But he also believed that one could reconcile the politics of the far ...
The Canadian Far-Right and Conspiracy Theories
1st Edition
By Ahmed Al-Rawi, Carmen Celestini, Nicole K. Stewart, Joseph M. Nicolaï, Nathan Worku
May 22, 2026
This book provides an empirical analysis, mapping, and assessment of Canadian right‑wing extremist (RWE) groups and their conspiracy theories. While the majority of studies on RWE groups focus on American and European actors, this book critically examines conspiracies disseminated by Canadian ...
The Transnational Making of Italian Neofascism
1st Edition
By Matteo Albanese
May 22, 2026
This book delves into the evolution of Italian neo-fascism from the end of World War II to the mid-1970s. It examines the transition from historical fascism to neo-fascism, highlighting the survival and adaptation of fascist ideologies within democratic frameworks. This book explores the formation ...
The Global Impact of the March on Rome
1st Edition
Edited
By Giulia Albanese, Filippo Focardi, Matteo Millan, Marco Mondini
April 08, 2026
This comprehensive collection of chapters provides a nuanced and multifaceted analysis of the global impact of the March on Rome, offering valuable insights into the spread and adaptation of Fascist ideologies in different cultural and political contexts beyond Italy in the 1920s and 1930s. ...
Kahanism and the Algorithmic Interpretation of History
1st Edition
By Neil Bar
March 30, 2026
This book offers a systematic analysis of the ideology and enduring influence of Rabbi Meir Kahane in Israel, the American-born leader and thinker who rose to become one of the most radical far-right figures ever to hold political power in Israel. It unveils the core of his doctrinal structure: the...
Croatian Nationalist Groups in Australia 1949–1972: Friends in High Places
1st Edition
By Alexander Lee
February 25, 2026
Between 1949 and 1972, Australia became the largest centre of violent Croatian nationalism outside of Europe. This book reveals how radical Croatian groups – responsible for bombings, armed incursions, and political violence across two continents – were allowed to proliferate, thanks to the ...
The Far Right and the Media: International Trends and Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Imogen Richards
January 28, 2026
This book examines how far-right politics and news media shape one another, exposing, contesting, and at times inadvertently legitimising white supremacist, violent misogynist, and other far-right ideas. It situates these dynamics within the economic and structural transformations associated with ...
Postwar Mnemonic Anti-Fascism: From the Spanish Question to the Nordic Committees against the Greek Junta, 1946–1974
1st Edition
By Pontus Järvstad
December 30, 2025
This book deals with the transnational activities and political agitation of a Nordic social movement that was created to fight the junta, which seized power in a military coup in Greece in 1967. The main focus is on the anti-fascist aspects of the opposition movement. It is shown that the ...