Constructing far-right nations

Reactionary politics, geo-imaginaries and digital media

AvSamuel Merrill III,Mathilda Åkerlund

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Global Studies of the Far Right

1 263 kr

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Far-right nations examines how contemporary far-right actors construct and circulate digital geo-imaginaries that reconfigure understandings of nations, borders and global power. It analyses how ultranationalist and authoritarian movements use social media platforms, memes, influencers, alternative media and AI-generated content to frame some countries as idealised ethno-states and others as failed or threatening spaces. Drawing on case studies across Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia, the volume maps how these imaginaries move transnationally, shaping alliances, antagonisms and geopolitical tensions. By tracing the cultural geopolitics embedded in these digital ecosystems, it offers a critical account of how far-right narratives transform political subjectivities, reinforce exclusionary ideologies and unsettle democratic norms. The book provides a conceptual framework for understanding digital nationalism, reactionary world-building and the global circulation of far-right ideas.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-12-15
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:387 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Global Studies of the Far Right
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526189462

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Samuel Merrill is Associate Professor in Digital and Cultural Sociology at Umeå UniversityMathilda Åkerlund is a postdoctoral researcher in Media and Communication at the University of Gothenburg

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: mapping the geo-imaginaries of the digital far rightSamuel Merrill and Mathilda Åkerlund1 Between narratives of Schadenfreude, humiliation and redemption: far-right imaginaries of Denmark in Sweden and Sweden in DenmarkRyan Switzer and Tina Askanius2 Imaginaries of nations and nationalities: a social representation and rhetorical analysis of Finnish far-right and right-wing visual communication concerning other countriesJari Martikainen and Eemeli Hakoköngäs3 From ‘Slavic brother nations’ to ‘Asian invaders of fortress Europe’: ethnopluralism and Germanophone far-right discourses about Russia and UkraineSabine Volk4 Past imagination and speculative futures of the German nation in far-right activism: synthetic images between transnational and localised imaginariesSandra Kero, Christian Schwarzenegger and Manuel Menke5 Halos over the Heptarchy: alt-histories and the digital weaponisation of medieval EnglandAshton Kingdon6 The global white right: metapolitics as a racial projectBharath Ganesh and Jade Hutchinson7 Heroes and monsters of the nation: imaginaries and memetic violence in the Latin American far rightGabriel Bayarri Toscano8 Social media, Afrophobia and the far right in South Africa: implications for the African continentVincent Chenzi9 Hating the nearest neighbour: media influence on Japanese partisan hatred of South KoreaNaoto Higuchi and Mitsuru Matsutani10 Sweden in the global mirror: distortions and reflections among Chinese, Indian and US right-wing populistsRalph SchroederConcluding afterword: for a research agenda in far-right cultural geopoliticsSamuel Merrill

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