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The International Turn in Far-Right Studies: A Critical Assessment.
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Millennium (03058298) . Jul2023, Vol. 51 Issue 3, p892-919. 28p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- In recent years, there has been an intense public debate regarding the worldwide re-emergence of far-right politics and the ways in which it has engaged with the international. Surprisingly, thus far there have been no reflections on the broader implications of conceptualising the far-right in its international, transnational, and global dimensions. This article argues that we are witnessing an international turn in far-right studies that posits the international as constitutive of far-right politics, opening new forms of understanding it both from a historical and theoretical point of view. It develops a conceptual assessment of the international turn in three steps: first, it identifies that what binds this interdisciplinary literature together and breaks away from mainstream approaches is a shared critique of methodological nationalism; second, it classifies innovations in two different conceptual levels: the 'globalisation front', which sees transformations in the nature of far-right politics due the intensification of globalisation, and the 'historiographical front', which claims that the far-right has always been an international phenomenon. The article then analyses the main limitations of the international turn and offers a way to overcome it by articulating an intersocietal approach to the study of the far-right that draws from Global Historical Sociology. Le tournant international dans les études sur l'extrême droite : Une évaluation critique [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03058298
- Volume :
- 51
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Millennium (03058298)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 174344408
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298231198992