Advanced search
Publication Cover
European Societies Volume 21, 2019 - Issue 4: The Far Right as Social Movement
Submit an article Journal homepage
9,037
Views
88
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

The far right as social movement

Pietro Castelli Gattinaraa Centre for Research on Extremism (C-REX), University of Oslo, Oslo, NorwayCorrespondence[email protected]
View further author information
&
Andrea L. P. Pirrob Department of Political and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, ItalyView further author information
Pages 447-462 | Received 24 Apr 2018, Accepted 01 Jun 2018, Published online: 17 Jul 2018

Citations (88)

Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.

Subscribe to citation updates

Read on this site (35)

Hauke Dannemann. (2023) Experiments of authoritarian sustainability: Völkisch settlers and far-right prefiguration of a climate behemoth. Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 19:1.
Read now
Sabine Volk. (2023) Resisting ‘leftist dictatorship’? Memory politics and collective action framing in populist far-right street protest. European Politics and Society 24:5, pages 535-551.
Read now
Abel Ghekiere, Billie Martiniello & Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe. (2023) Identifying rental discrimination on the Flemish housing market: an intersectional approach. Ethnic and Racial Studies 46:12, pages 2654-2676.
Read now
Sebastian Hellmeier & Johannes Vüllers. (2023) Dynamics and determinants of right-wing populist mobilisation in Germany. West European Politics 46:5, pages 1024-1037.
Read now
Swen Hutter & Manès Weisskircher. (2023) New Contentious Politics. Civil Society, Social Movements, and the Polarisation of German Politics. German Politics 32:3, pages 403-419.
Read now
Manès Weisskircher, Swen Hutter & Endre Borbáth. (2023) Protest and Electoral Breakthrough: Challenger Party-Movement Interactions in Germany. German Politics 32:3, pages 538-562.
Read now
Endre Borbáth, Swen Hutter & Arndt Leininger. (2023) Cleavage politics, polarisation and participation in Western Europe. West European Politics 46:4, pages 631-651.
Read now
Tamta Gelashvili. (2023) Opportunities Matter: The Evolution of Far-Right Protest in Georgia. Europe-Asia Studies 75:4, pages 649-674.
Read now
Daniel Platek. (2023) Towards pillarisation? Coalitions of Polish protest in 2020. East European Politics 0:0, pages 1-25.
Read now
Laila Sprejer, Helen Margetts, Kleber Oliveira, David J.P. O’Sullivan & Bertie Vidgen. (2023) An actor-based approach to understanding radical right viral tweets in the UK. Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism 18:2, pages 139-157.
Read now
Sabine Volk & Manès Weisskircher. (2023) Defending democracy against the ‘Corona dictatorship’? Far-right PEGIDA during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Movement Studies 0:0, pages 1-19.
Read now
Jordan McSwiney. (2023) Organising Australian far-right parties: Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and Fraser Anning’s Conservative National Party. Australian Journal of Political Science 58:1, pages 37-52.
Read now
Julia Rone. (2023) Backsliding of the left: or how Viktor Orbán’s right-wing conservative illiberalism emerged as a normative ideal in Bulgarian political discourse. European Politics and Society 24:1, pages 59-76.
Read now
Sabine Volk. (2022) Explaining PEGIDA’s ‘strange survival’: an ethnographic approach to far-right protest rituals. Political Research Exchange 4:1.
Read now
Matthias Hoffmann, Elias Steinhilper & Katharina Bauer. (2022) Fields of contention as a prism: toward a nuanced role of parties and civil society actors in protest interactions. Social Movement Studies 0:0, pages 1-20.
Read now
George Mavrommatis. (2022) Nativism and second-generation migrants in Greece: differentiating between ethnic and civic elements of citizenship. Ethnic and Racial Studies 45:12, pages 2289-2308.
Read now
Julia Rone. (2022) Far right alternative news media as ‘indignation mobilization mechanisms’: how the far right opposed the Global Compact for Migration. Information, Communication & Society 25:9, pages 1333-1350.
Read now
Ov Cristian Norocel & Alberta Giorgi. (2022) Disentangling radical right populism, gender, and religion: an introduction. Identities 29:4, pages 417-428.
Read now
Manuela Caiani. (2022) Between real and virtual: strategies of mobilisation of the radical right in Eastern Europe. East European Politics 38:3, pages 331-357.
Read now
Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe & David De Coninck. (2022) Rental discrimination, perceived threat and public attitudes towards immigration and refugees. Ethnic and Racial Studies 45:7, pages 1371-1393.
Read now
Stijn van Kessel & Adam Fagan. (2022) Mobilising around Europe: a conceptual framework and introduction to the special section. Social Movement Studies 21:1-2, pages 169-179.
Read now
Manuela Caiani & Manès Weisskircher. (2022) Anti-nationalist Europeans and pro-European nativists on the streets: visions of Europe from the left to the far right. Social Movement Studies 21:1-2, pages 216-233.
Read now
Pietro Castelli Gattinara & Caterina Froio. (2022) Politicizing Europe on the far right: Anti-EU mobilization across the party and non-party sector in France. Social Movement Studies 21:1-2, pages 199-215.
Read now
Emma Arneback & Jan Jämte. (2022) How to counteract racism in education – A typology of teachers’ anti-racist actions. Race Ethnicity and Education 25:2, pages 192-211.
Read now
Tommaso Trillò & Limor Shifman. (2021) Memetic commemorations: remixing far-right values in digital spheres. Information, Communication & Society 24:16, pages 2482-2501.
Read now
Antonis Ellinas & Iasonas Lamprianou. (2021) Societal Responses to Right-Wing Extremism: Antifascist Mobilisation against Golden Dawn in Greece. South European Society and Politics 26:4, pages 437-464.
Read now
Ofra Klein & Andrea L. P. Pirro. (2021) Reverting trajectories? UKIP’s organisational and discursive change after the Brexit referendum. Information, Communication & Society 24:10, pages 1382-1400.
Read now
Gil-Soo Han & David Hundt. (2021) Nostalgic nationalists in South Korea: the flag-carriers’ struggles. Critical Asian Studies 53:3, pages 412-431.
Read now
Andrea L. P. Pirro & Martín Portos. (2021) Populism between voting and non-electoral participation. West European Politics 44:3, pages 558-584.
Read now
Manuela Caiani, Benedetta Carlotti & Enrico Padoan. (2021) Online Hate Speech and the Radical Right in Times of Pandemic: The Italian and English Cases. Javnost - The Public 28:2, pages 202-218.
Read now
Steven M. Van Hauwaert. (2021) Thinking outside the box: the political process model and far right party emergence. Journal of Contemporary European Studies 29:1, pages 84-98.
Read now
Pietro Castelli Gattinara & Samuel Bouron. (2020) Extreme-right communication in Italy and France: political culture and media practices in CasaPound Italia and Les Identitaires. Information, Communication & Society 23:12, pages 1805-1819.
Read now
Pietro Castelli Gattinara & Lorenzo Zamponi. (2020) Politicizing support and opposition to migration in France: the EU asylum policy crisis and direct social activism. Journal of European Integration 42:5, pages 625-641.
Read now
Swen Hutter & Endre Borbáth. (2019) Challenges from left and right: the long-term dynamics of protest and electoral politics in Western Europe. European Societies 21:4, pages 487-512.
Read now
Ov Cristian Norocel & Gabriella Szabó. (2019) Special Issue: Mapping the Discursive Opportunities for Radical-Right Populist Politics across Eastern Europe. Problems of Post-Communism 66:1, pages 1-7.
Read now

Articles from other publishers (53)

Damien Simonneau & Pietro Castelli Gattinara. (2023) Solidarité ou sécurité ?. Gouvernement et action publique VOL. 12:3, pages 101-126.
Crossref
ANTONIS A. ELLINAS & IASONAS LAMPRIANOU. (2023) Movement versus Party: The Electoral Effects of Anti-Far Right Protests in Greece. American Political Science Review, pages 1-19.
Crossref
Bin Chen, Josephine Lukito & Gyo Hyun Koo. (2023) Comparing the #StopTheSteal Movement across Multiple Platforms: Differentiating Discourse on Facebook, Twitter, and Parler. Social Media + Society 9:3.
Crossref
Carina Hoerst & John Drury. (2023) The role of subjective power dynamics in far-right collective action: The “Unite the Right” rally and the Capitol insurrection. Journal of Social and Political Psychology 11:1, pages 330-347.
Crossref
Stefan Malthaner. (2023) Paradigmatische Gräben: Zum Verhältnis von Protest- und Gewaltforschung. Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 36:2, pages 228-241.
Crossref
Jonathan Collins. (2023) Mobilising Extremism in Times of Change: Analysing the UK’s Far-Right Online Content During the Pandemic. European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research.
Crossref
Valeriya Kamenova. (2023) The road to European parliament mandate for populist radical-right parties: Selecting the ‘perfect’ AfD candidate. Party Politics, pages 135406882311738.
Crossref
Pietro Castelli Gattinara & Caterina Froio. (2023) When the Far Right Makes the News: Protest Characteristics and Media Coverage of Far-Right Mobilization in Europe. Comparative Political Studies, pages 001041402311690.
Crossref
Xin Xiong. (2023) The Rise of Far-right Politics in Europe: Examples from Italy, Hungary and France. Highlights in Business, Economics and Management 7, pages 240-248.
Crossref
Eviane Leidig & Gabriel Bayarri. (2023) Not Your Grandma’s Fascism: Fame, Femininity, and Race in Far-Right Postcolonial India and Brazil. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 30:1, pages 239-267.
Crossref
Andrea Felicetti & Markus Holdo. (2023) Reflective Inclusion: Learning from Activists What Taking a Deliberative Stance Means. Political Studies.
Crossref
Bartłomiej Różycki. (2023) National Homogeneity as a Component of the Far-Right Narrative in Poland. Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest N° 2:2, pages 121-149.
Crossref
Maximilian Zehring & Emese Domahidi. (2023) German Corona Protest Mobilizers on Telegram and Their Relations to the Far Right: A Network and Topic Analysis. Social Media + Society 9:1, pages 205630512311551.
Crossref
Klaus WahlKlaus Wahl. 2023. Die Radikale Rechte. Die Radikale Rechte 25 69 .
Maria Fernandes‐Jesus, Alessia Rochira & Terri Mannarini. (2022) Opposition to immigration: How people who identify with far‐right discourses legitimize the social exclusion of immigrants. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 33:1, pages 14-31.
Crossref
Fabián Riquelme, Diego Rivera & Benjamín Serrano. (2022) Analyzing the far-right political action on Twitter: the Chilean constituent process. Social Network Analysis and Mining 12:1.
Crossref
Luisa Liekefett & Julia C. Becker. (2022) Low system justification is associated with support for both progressive and reactionary social change. European Journal of Social Psychology 52:7, pages 1015-1030.
Crossref
Manès Weisskircher. (2022) Politik auf der Straße? Zum Forschungsstand zu sozialen Bewegungen, Protest und Zivilgesellschaft. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 16:3, pages 581-598.
Crossref
Sabine Volk. (2022) Conceptualising Europe from the far right: The mobilisation of intellectual heritage in Germany. Journal of European Studies 52:3-4, pages 238-254.
Crossref
PIETRO CASTELLI GATTINARA, CATERINA FROIO & ANDREA L. P. PIRRO. (2021) Far‐right protest mobilisation in Europe: Grievances, opportunities and resources. European Journal of Political Research 61:4, pages 1019-1041.
Crossref
Lars Erik Berntzen. 2013. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements 1 3 .
Amanda Weiner & Ariel Zellman. (2022) Mobilizing the White: White Nationalism and Congressional Politics in the American South. American Politics Research 50:5, pages 707-722.
Crossref
Davide Vittori. (2022) Vanguard or business-as-usual? ‘New’ movement parties in comparative perspective. International Political Science Review 43:4, pages 595-610.
Crossref
Marcin Kosman. (2022) The rise of the new Polish far-right. Journal of Language and Politics 21:3, pages 484-504.
Crossref
Ahmad Mohammadpour & Kamal Soleimani. (2022) Silencing the Past. Current Anthropology 63:2, pages 185-210.
Crossref
Anthony Ince. (2021) Anti‐Fascist Action and the Transversal Territorialities of Militant Anti‐Fascism in 1990s Britain. Antipode 54:2, pages 482-502.
Crossref
Anna-Sophie Heinze. (2022) Zwischen Etablierung und Mainstreaming: Zum Stand der Forschung zu Populismus und RechtsradikalismusBetween establishment and mainstreaming: on the state of research on populism and right-wing radicalism. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 16:1, pages 161-175.
Crossref
JOHANNES VÜLLERS & SEBASTIAN HELLMEIER. (2021) Does counter‐mobilization contain right‐wing populist movements? Evidence from Germany. European Journal of Political Research 61:1, pages 21-45.
Crossref
Georg Ruhrmann & Lars Guenther. 2022. Rechtsextremismus, Demokratiebildung, gesellschaftliche Integration. Rechtsextremismus, Demokratiebildung, gesellschaftliche Integration 225 248 .
Georg Ruhrmann. 2020. Handbuch Diskriminierung. Handbuch Diskriminierung 1 18 .
Alberta Giorgi & Hande Eslen-Ziya. 2022. Populism and Science in Europe. Populism and Science in Europe 1 24 .
Niccolò Bertuzzi. (2021) Conspiracy theories and social movements studies: A research agenda. Sociology Compass 15:12.
Crossref
Mattias Wahlström, Anton Törnberg & Hans Ekbrand. (2020) Dynamics of violent and dehumanizing rhetoric in far-right social media. New Media & Society 23:11, pages 3290-3311.
Crossref
Gabriel Fernandes Rocha Guimarães. (2021) Ocidente, Direitas e Islã. Locus: Revista de História 27:2, pages 150-178.
Crossref
Matthew Godwin & Elisabeth Trischler. (2021) Reimagining the Medieval: The Utility of Ethnonational Symbols for Reactionary Transnational Social Movements. Politics and Governance 9:3, pages 215-226.
Crossref
Sabine Volk. (2021) Die rechtspopulistische PEGIDA in der COVID-19-Pandemie . Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 34:2, pages 235-248.
Crossref
Julian Göpffarth & Esra Özyürek. (2020) Spiritualizing reason, rationalizing spirit: Muslim public intellectuals in the German far right. Ethnicities 21:3, pages 498-520.
Crossref
Gala Nettelbladt. (2021) Disrupting Dialogue? The Participatory Urban Governance of Far-Right Contestations in Cottbus. Urban Planning 6:2, pages 91-102.
Crossref
Panagiotis Artelaris & George Mavrommatis. (2021) The role of economic and cultural changes in the rise of far‐right in Greece: A regional analysis. Regional Science Policy & Practice 13:2, pages 353-369.
Crossref
Anja Giudici. (2020) Seeds of authoritarian opposition: Far-right education politics in post-war Europe. European Educational Research Journal 20:2, pages 121-142.
Crossref
Gavan Titley, Kaarina Nikunen & Mervi Pantti. (2021) Shifting Formations, Formative Infrastructures: Nationalisms and Racisms in Media Circulation. Television & New Media 22:2, pages 103-111.
Crossref
Andrea LP Pirro, Elena Pavan, Adam Fagan & David Gazsi. (2019) Close ever, distant never? Integrating protest event and social network approaches into the transformation of the Hungarian far right. Party Politics 27:1, pages 22-34.
Crossref
Donatella della Porta. (2020) Conceptualising backlash movements: A (patch-worked) perspective from social movement studies. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations 22:4, pages 585-597.
Crossref
Manès Weisskircher. (2020) Neue Wahrheiten von rechts außen? Alternative Nachrichten und der „Rechtspopulismus“ in Deutschland . Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 33:2, pages 474-490.
Crossref
Pietro Castelli Gattinara. (2020) The study of the far right and its three E’s: why scholarship must go beyond Eurocentrism, Electoralism and Externalism. French Politics 18:3, pages 314-333.
Crossref
Isabel R. Pinto, Catarina L. Carvalho, Carina Dias, Paula Lopes, Sara Alves, Cátia de Carvalho & José M. Marques. (2020) A Path Toward Inclusive Social Cohesion: The Role of European and National Identity on Contesting vs. Accepting European Migration Policies in Portugal. Frontiers in Psychology 11.
Crossref
Audrey Gagnon. (2020) Far‐Right Framing Processes on Social Media: The Case of the Canadian and Quebec Chapters of Soldiers of Odin. Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie 57:3, pages 356-378.
Crossref
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Mervi Pantti & Gavan Titley. (2020) Broadcasting the Movement and Branding Political Microcelebrities: Finnish Anti-Immigration Video Practices on YouTube. Journal of Communication 70:2, pages 171-194.
Crossref
Klaus WahlKlaus Wahl. 2020. The Radical Right. The Radical Right 21 60 .
Manuela Caiani. (2019) The rise and endurance of radical right movements. Current Sociology 67:6, pages 918-935.
Crossref
Andrea L. P. Pirro. (2019) Ballots and barricades enhanced: far‐right ‘movement parties’ and movement‐electoral interactions. Nations and Nationalism 25:3, pages 782-802.
Crossref
Caterina Froio. (2019) Comparer les droites extrêmes. Revue internationale de politique comparée Vol. 24:4, pages 373-399.
Crossref
Bartek Pytlas. (2018) Radical right politics in East and West: Distinctive yet equivalent. Sociology Compass 12:11, pages e12632.
Crossref

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.