Vol. 3, No. 1 (2025)
Letter from the Editor
"Letter from the Editor"
Lawrence Rosenthal (Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies)
Articles
"The Menace of Globalism: Merwin K. Hart and Nationalist Conservatism, 1930–1960"
Alex McPhee-Browne (University of Cambridge)
"The Masculinities and Emotions of Men Going Their Own Way: An Ethnographic Study on the MGTOW Reddit Forum"
Jess Fowler (Harvard)
“The Pornography of Fools: Tracing the History of Sexual Antisemitism"
Aidan J. Beatty (Carnegie Mellon)
“Similarity Heuristics in the Indian Far Right: How the RSS Obscures Its Operational Scale"
Felix Pal (University of Western Australia)
“Hindu Nationalism and Student Politics: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad between 1947 and 1985"
Sahil Kureshi (Oxford)
“Global Influence of the Contemporary American Far Right: A Case Study of Serbia"
Andrej Ševo (University of Belgrade)
"The Far Right’s Quest for Cultural Dominance: Radical Publishing in Greece since 1974"
Anna Karakatsouli (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Essays
"Based" Bookishness: White Nationalist Strategies for a Post-Print Age"
Jenny Rice (University of Kentucky)
"Ausländerfrei! The Hoyerswerda Pogrom, 1991"
Landis MacKellar (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria)
Book Reviews
"Review of Talia Lavin, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America"
Shea Minter (Georgetown)
"Review of Francesca Scrinzi, The Racialization of Sexism: Men, Women, and Gender in the Populist Radical Right"
Paula Matthies, Viktoria Rösch, Michaela Köttig (Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences)
Vol. 2, No. 2 (2024)
Special Issue: Gender, Sexuality, and Sociolinguistics of the Far Right, guest edited by Catherine Tebaldi and Scott Burnett
Letter from the Editor
Lawrence Rosenthal (Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies)
Introduction
“Heroes and Hard Truths: Gender, Sexuality, and the Sociolinguistics of the Far Right”
Catherine Tebaldi (University of Luxembourg) and Scott Burnett (Pennsylvania State University)
Articles
“The Science of Desire: Beauty, Masculinity, and Ideology on the Far Right”
Catherine Tebaldi (University of Luxembourg) and Scott Burnett (Pennsylvania State University)
“Hailing, Voicing, and Masturbation Abstention: NoFap’s Role in Socializing Young Men into the Right-Wing Politics of Ressentiment”
Scott Burnett (Pennsylvania State University), Rodrigo Borba (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), and Mie Hiramoto (National University of Singapore)
“Limbless Warriors and Foaming Liberals: The Allure of Post-Heroism in Far-Right Memes”
Johanna Maj Schmidt (University of Leipzig)
“Family Politics in Contemporary Fascist Propaganda: Multimodal Entanglements of National Socialist Ideals, Populist Rhetoric and Image Bank Semiotics”
Henning Årman (Stockholm University) and Gustav Westberg (Örebro University)
“The Discursive Construction of ‘Truth’ in the Email Newsletter of an Anti-Genderist Polish NGO”
Dominika Baran (Duke University)
“Referentialism and Discursive Parallels between US ‘Alt-Right’ and ‘Gender-Critical’ Conspiracism”
Maureen Kosse (University of Colorado Boulder)
Essays
“From Pajama Boy to Pepe the Frog: Power, Essentialism, and the Nation-State in the Manosphere”
Janet McIntosh (Brandeis University)
“Why Everybody Wants to Be a Fascist and Why We Should Study Language to Understand It”
Tommaso M. Milani (Pennsylvania State University)
Vol. 2, No. 1 (2024), The Curse of Relevance: Challenges Facing Right-Wing Studies
We are pleased to announce the release of the first Special Issue of the Journal of Right-Wing Studies (JRWS). The Curse of Relevance: Challenges Facing Right-Wing Studies arrives at a critical moment when far-right movements are gaining prominence globally. The issue, guest-edited by A.J. Bauer, Isis Giraldo, and Clara Juarez Miro, includes essays by scholars on the difficulties facing those who study and teach “the right” as well as original empirical articles that examine methodological and theoretical dilemmas. With this issue, we aim to foster dialogue, collaboration, and support among researchers and the public. We invite you to read and engage with the contributions, which are available now on eScholarship. Please find the content of the issue below.
Introduction
The Curse of Relevance: Challenges Facing Right-Wing Studies, A.J. Bauer, Isis Giraldo, and Clara Juarez Miro
Articles
“Remove Kebab”: The Appeal of Serbian Nationalist Ideology among the Global Far Right, Monica Hanson-Green and Hikmet Karčić
The Gab Project: The Methodological, Epistemological, and Legal Challenges of Studying the Platformized Far Right, Tim de Winkel, Ludo Gorzeman, Sofie de Wilde de Ligny, Tomas ten Heuvel, Melissa Blekkenhorst, Sander Prins, and Mirko Tobias Schäfer
The Ordinariness of January 6: Rhetorics of Participation in Antidemocratic Culture, Diren Valayden, Belinda Walzer, and Alexandra S. Moore
Stuart Hall’s Relational Political Sociology: A Heuristic for Right-Wing Studies, Tyler Leeds
Essays
Black Feminist Strategies for Right-Wing Studies, Blu Buchanan
Burn After Reading: Research-Related Trauma, Burnout, and Resilience in Right-Wing Studies, Meredith L. Pruden
Irrationality and Pathology: How Public Health Can Help to Make Sense in Right-Wing Studies, Emma Q. Tran
Vol. 1, No. 1 (2023)
This inaugural issue features the work of leading scholars who have examined right-wing politics across multiple regions worldwide. The issue contains full-length academic articles, essays, and a book review.
Full articles:
Cihan Tuğal (UC Berkeley) on Turkey, India, and the Philippines
Ben Cowan (UC San Diego) on Brazil
Bálint Magyar and Bálint Madlovics (Central European University) on Hungary and Poland
Nandini Sundar (University of Delhi) on India
Walter Skya (University of Alaska, Fairbanks) on Japan
Essays:
Terri Givens (McGill University) on Western Europe
Jeffrey Bloodworth (Gannon University) on the United States
Book review:
Meredith Pruden (Kennesaw State University) on Karen Lee Ashcraft's, Wronged and Dangerous: Viral Masculinity and the Populist Pandemic, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022
This content reflects the fact that the journal is being launched in a moment of extraordinary right-wing mobilization across the globe when militant movements and illiberal regimes have aligned ideologically, focused on maintaining ethnic, religious, gender, and racial hierarchies in the name of “traditional” values versus the imposition of the “woke” agenda.
Perhaps not since the 1930s and 1940s have concerned citizens been so acutely aware of the threats facing liberal democracy. Accordingly, we want to make JRWS available to as wide an audience as possible, including readers beyond the academy. To this end, the journal is published on an open-access basis, without economic barriers for readers or authors, through the California Digital Library’s eScholarship program. In addition to traditional academic research papers, we publish essays, commentaries, and book reviews. We have begun publishing such shorter pieces on our blog: On the Right: Current Topics in Right-Wing Studies.