Seeds of authoritarian opposition: Far-right education politics in post-war Europe.

ABSTRACT: Since the 1980s, right-wing extremism, radicalism, and populism have emerged as transformative forces in European politics. This unexpected resurgence has triggered an interdisciplinary scholarly effort to refine our understanding of the far right. Educationalists, however, have largely been absent from this endeavour, leaving us unable to theorise and address the potential effects of the far right's political and cultural growth on European education. This article aims to provide an empirically based conceptional groundwork for educational research on the far right. Drawing on archival research and content analysis of programmatic material produced by diverse and influential far-right organisations in France, (West) Germany, and Italy, I show that the post-war European far right disposes

SUBMITTER: Giudici A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7948513 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature