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.
Inside the Extreme Nationalist Movement in Norway: Rage and Rally
1st Edition
By Christopher Rettedal Fardan
October 08, 2026
This book investigates how different forms of extreme nationalism are sustained in contemporary Norway, offering critical insights into the social, relational, and interactional contexts that enable these movements to persist. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, including in-depth ...
Women and Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)
1st Edition
By Katherine Williams
August 25, 2026
Women and Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) sheds new light on aspects of women’s support for the far right. Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, AfD) is the second largest party in Germany following the federal election in February 2025, and, like with its counterparts across ...
Italian Anti-Fascism: A Generative Tradition (1945–2025)
1st Edition
By Andrea Rapini
August 17, 2026
This book offers a concise and original history of anti-fascism through the Italian case, tracing its evolution from its origins in opposition to Fascism to its contemporary transformations and crisis, while reinterpreting it as a dynamic and generative tradition rather than a fixed historical ...
Banal Fascism Online: Weaponizing the “Everyday” for Extreme Ends
1st Edition
Edited
By Meredith L. Pruden, Ayse D. Lokmanoglu, Hanah Stiverson, Meghan Conroy
August 04, 2026
Banal Fascism Online: Weaponizing the “Everyday” for Extreme Ends offers a novel lens through which to research, conceptualize, and understand fascism and its place in today’s political culture. It allows space for its authors to explore fascism as it exists in the digital world, outside the rigid ...
Julius Evola and the Radical Right: Spiritual Racism from Fascist Italy to the New Age
1st Edition
By Peter Staudenmaier
July 23, 2026
Julius Evola and the Radical Right examines the ideas and influence of Italian thinker Julius Evola (1898–1974), an increasingly popular author within the far right and the esoteric milieu alike. An iconic figure for successive generations of the radical right, Evola is both revered and reviled, ...
Building Dictatorships under Axis Rule: War, Military Occupation and Political Regimes
1st Edition
Edited
By António Costa Pinto, Goffredo Adinolfi
July 20, 2026
This book offers a broad comparative perspective on regime building under Axis rule during the Second World War, exploring case studies in Europe and Asia. Military occupation represents the highest degree of political, social and economic control over an occupied state and its society. This ...
Giving Credit to Dictatorship: Authoritarian Regimes and Financial Capitalism in Europe during the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Valerio Torreggiani, José Luís Cardoso
July 20, 2026
This edited volume explores the interplay between political, economic, and financial development in twentieth-century European authoritarian regimes. The book features case studies that explore the impact of domestic and international finance on the rise, stabilization, and decline of various ...
Importing Fascism: The Italian Community’s Fascist Experience in Interwar Scotland
1st Edition
By Remigio Petrocelli
July 20, 2026
Importing Fascism analyses the mechanisms of the Italian fascist regime in incorporating the Italian-Scottish diaspora into their nation- and fascism-building project via its transnational efforts between the rise of fascism in 1922 and Italy’s declaration of war on Britain in June 1940. Drawing ...
José Antonio Primo de Rivera in Latin America: The Pursuit of a Fascist Usable Past during the Cold War (1939–1989)
1st Edition
By Daniel Gunnar Kressel
July 20, 2026
This book explores a distinctive neo-fascist movement that emerged in Latin America and Spain during the Cold War. At times self-labeled “Jose Antonians,” the book’s protagonists evoked the memory and ideology of José Antonio Primo de Rivera. The author first elucidates who this Spanish fascist was...
The Metaphysics of Race: Science and Faith in the Nazi Worldview
1st Edition
By Amit Varshizky
July 20, 2026
This book seeks to reframe debates on the conflicting scientific and spiritual traditions that underpinned the Nazi worldview, showing how despite the multitude of tensions and rivals among its adherents, it provided a coherent conceptual grid and possessed its own philosophical consistency. ...
Global Far-Right Ecologies: Trends, Issues and Responses
1st Edition
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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 ...