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Abstract: Welcome to the eighteenth year of JSR: Journal for the Study of Radicalism! In this issue, Josh Vandiver and Arthur Versluis co-edit a series of articles on religion and radicalism on the political right. We received more articles than we could publish in this issue alone, so we will continue this theme in JSR 18.2, later this year, and we expect to include an exceptionally interesting article that connects these themes with contemporary clandestine occultist groups and figures. Frequently JSR has focused on radicalism on the left, or on radicalism that doesn’t quite fit into categories of left and right. For this issue, we wanted to begin exploring radicalism on the right in more depth.This issue of JSR begins ... Read More PubDate: 2024-12-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: A simple Google search of “Brown Scares” leads one to the following result: “Did you mean Brown Scars'” Yet what if one is really interested in exaggerated state or societal campaigns against “fascists” or excessive fears of the return of fascism or Nazism, also known as “Brown Scares”' In contrast, Google turns up a whopping 294,000,000 results for “Red Scares.” Many of us are familiar with the “Red Scare” of the 1950s, the widespread propaganda and fear with respect to the potential rise of communism or other left-leaning ideologies. Why is there a dearth of academic and even journalistic literature on “Brown Scares”'Fascism was largely defeated as an ideological force in 1945 after the Allied victory against ... Read More PubDate: 2024-12-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Most Americans understand that Nazis and Nazism are not a phenomenon that is confined to German history. Neo-Nazi gatherings, when they occur, are widely publicized, including the two rallies held in Florida in September 2023 by members of five different neo-Nazi organizations.1 Most Americans, however, do not know anything about the father of American neo-Nazism, George Lincoln Rockwell, a former Navy commander who founded the American Nazi Party (ANP) and who was assassinated in 1967. This does not mean that Rockwell has been forgotten, though, as he remains a hugely influential figure among rightwing extremists. He is widely recognized to have done more to revive Nazism in the aftermath of the Second World War ... Read More PubDate: 2024-12-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: For the first time since the 1970s, Christian Nationalism has become an emic self-identification in the United States.1 In contrast to prior instances, it presently refers to a fluid movement still in development rather than to a single specific organization, party, or ethno-racial conception. In greater contrast to previous occurrences, its recent emic adoption frequently differs in intended meaning from its increasingly popular use as an etic description, usually one with pejorative valence. Contemporary emic usage of “Christian Nationalism” also differs from its historical origins and associations, which have themselves contributed to the genesis of its contemporary pejorative usage by journalists and ... Read More PubDate: 2024-12-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Government discourses and public policy approaches to drug trafficking in Latin America often adopt a prohibitionist and economic tone that may be understood as a normalization process related to the presence of an enemy and that justifies errors or covers up complicity within state institutions.1 Normalization takes place since, differing from other illegal criminal practices such as kidnapping, extortion, and human trafficking,2 drug trafficking has managed to transform itself, to adapt3 and blend within the cultural ethos so as to become part of the social system.4 Within this framework, drug traffickers (narcos) have found legitimate spaces that allow them to exert sovereignty in parallel with the state.5 To do ... Read More PubDate: 2024-12-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The economics and sociology literature that deals with churches and sects can provide a valuable framework when considering certain conspiracy theories. This article looks at two aspects of the so-called “QAnon” conspiracy theory: first, Q’s theory on the elites; and second, Q’s followers—the Anons—and their social structure. For the first, I examine the historical precedent for Q’s theory and show how Iannaccone’s “sacrifice and stigma” model can help frame the ideas in the theory.1 Concerning the second, I look to Iannaccone’s church–sect model to explain how rational individuals can join and be involved in conspiratorial social network groups at both the church and sectarian levels.2Sunstein and Vermeule define ... Read More PubDate: 2024-12-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Conspiracy thinking sprang up strongly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Portugal presents itself as an important context to analyze such relation because it attracted a diverse array of protests and mobilizations inspired on such conspiracy theories and performed in the country’s main cities (i.e., Lisbon, Porto, and Coimbra) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social media have been a privileged avenue to disseminate such protests through Facebook groups and other social networks, while several conspiracy theories have occupied the forefront of diverse Facebook posts in order to make sense of the pandemic’s causes and related sanitary control measures (e.g., lockdown, social distancing, mask use, testing, vaccination). ... Read More PubDate: 2024-12-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, and Julian Walker’s book Conspirituality is a fascinating account of the historical and ideological overlaps between alternative health movements and the alt- and far-right that have resulted in a wave of antivaccination and wellness-related misinformation. A project that developed out of the authors’ eponymous podcast, this book will be appreciated by interdisciplinary general and academic audiences interested in the politics of new religious movements, the alt- and far-right, and conspiracy theories.The first part of the book explores the core ideas of conspirituality, which are then, in the second portion of the book, contextualized by references to the prevalence of alternative ... Read More PubDate: 2024-12-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The main argument put forward in the monograph New Media and Revolution: Resistance and Dissent in Pre-Uprising Syria by Billie Jeanne Brownlee is a cogent one that ought to be familiar to most readers more than a decade following the advent of the Arab Spring. In short, she offers that “digital technologies played a significant role in the organization and struggle” of the uprisings that spread across the Arab world in the early 2010s, and that these tools facilitated a process of democratization of the region, “through and by the people” (7; emphasis in the original). For the Syrian case, she contends that a “localised form of resistance” existed even prior to the 2011 uprising, serving as the “opportunity ... Read More PubDate: 2024-12-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Eighty years after the events of May 1937, historian of Spanish radicalism Agustín Guillamón makes a remarkable contribution to the study of the Spanish Civil War by recreating the events of the month in a narrative that is both a presentation of primary documents and a scholarly commentary. This is not a book to be read by the general reader who has a mild interest in Spanish history or even the Civil War, but rather is a historical resource that is so complex and detailed as to be somewhat confusing. The heart of this book is divided into five chapters: (1) “The Background to May”; (2) “The Events of May 1937”; (3) “The Epilogue to May”; (4) “The Insurrection in Summary: Clarifying the Revolutionary Thread of the ... Read More PubDate: 2024-12-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right by David Renton explores the twenty-first-century evolution of the political right. Conceptually, the work establishes that the political right consists of traditional or mainstream conservatives, far right, and fascist far right. Renton theorizes that we have entered a new phase of conservative and far right relations. Focusing on the events of 2016–2017, Renton asserts we are not witnessing a resurgent fascist movement; instead, we are witnessing the convergence of mainstream conservatism with the far right. This marriage of convenience provides far-right votes to mainstream conservatives in exchange for political legitimacy and policy concessions. While the book ... Read More PubDate: 2024-12-13T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: From the outset, the authors frame their 2020 collection The US Anti-fascism Reader as a response to the reemergence of U.S. fascism as a political idea and aspirant mode of political rule (1). To this end, the volume collects a series of articles, excerpts, and accounts that reach back into the 1930s. Most valuably, this wide reach allows the volume to reintroduce sharp leftist strategic pieces to perhaps new audiences. These inclusions, along with an emphasis on defining fascism, comprise a significant thrust in the overall volume. Through this crucial preoccupation with defining terms, Mullen and Vials intervene by refocusing a materialist lens to the political conditions at different historical points in the ... Read More PubDate: 2024-12-13T00:00:00-05:00
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