The Rise of the Far Right in Europe by Gabriella Lazaridis

The Rise of the Far Right in Europe by Gabriella Lazaridis

The results of the last European Elections of 2014 confirmed the rise of right and far right 'populist' parties across the EU. The success of a range of parties, such as Denmark’s Dansk Folskeparti, Slovenia’s Slovenska demokratska stranka, France’s Front National, Greece’s Golden Dawn, the United Kingdom Independence Party, Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement in Italy and the Austrian FPÖ, has been perceived as a political wave which is transforming the face of the European Parliament, and challenging at some level the hegemony of the 'big four' well-established European political forces that lead the Strasbourg’s assembly: the ALDE, EPP, S&D and Greens/ALE.

As 'populism' has become a major issue in many EU countries, this collection aims to provide a critical understanding of related trends and recommend ways in which they can be challenged both in policy and praxis, by using the gender-race-ethnicity-sexual orientation intersectionality approach.

This international volume combines extensive transnational comparative data analysis, as well as research at discursive, attitudinal and behavioural levels.

 

Gabriella Lazaridis is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Leicester, UK. She has extensively researched and written widely on southern European societies and politics for twenty years with a focus on migration, ethnic minorities, gender issues and citizenship. She is the leading coordinator of the project RAGE, 'Hate Speech and Anti-Populist Othering in Europe through the Racism, Age, Gender Looking Glass', funded by the European Commission. Gabriella is also directing the British case in another multi-country EU funded project on E-engagement and violence, as well as the Greek case in yet another project, 'Pathways to Power: The Political Representation of Citizens of Immigrant Origin in Seven European Democracies', funded by the EU and ESRC.

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ISBN 13	9781137556783
ISBN 10	1137556781
Title	The Rise of the Far Right in Europe
Author	Gabriella Lazaridis
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Year published	2016-07-22
Number of pages	289
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