Date: 17 October 2024
Time: 3pm – 4.30pm (BST)
Place: Online
Abstract:
The second webinar will engage with issues of terminology and why they matter in understanding the resurgence of far-right politics. In particular, speakers will discuss issues of definitions, euphemisation and mainstreaming. A particular focus will be placed on the role we play as researchers in either combatting or legitimising the far right through our work.
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Bios:
Miranda Iossifidis is a Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University. Her research interests are to do with speculative populationist and ecofascist futures, reproductive and climate justice, and creative and collaborative methods.
George Newth is a Lecturer at the University of Bath. His research focuses principally on the how far-right parties attempt to normalise their reactionary politics via discourses of common sense. This links to broader research interests pertaining to the role of populism and nativism in far right articulations of regionalist and nationalist politics. His book with Routledge, Fathers of the Lega: Populist Regionalism and Populist Nationalism in Historical Perspective, investigates the historical roots of the Italian Republic’s oldest surviving political party, the populist far-right Lega (Nord), tracing its origins to post-war Italy.
Omran Shroufi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Communication Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he is investigating how the far right engages with audiovisual fiction. Omran completed a PhD in Politics at the University of York where he examined the emergence of pro-Israeli far-right parties in West Europe. His research interests include far-right studies, far-right ideology, German politics and (discourses about) populism and anti-populism.
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