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The Ethics of Researching the Far & Extreme Right @ethexnetwork.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

The sixth and final section of the book, “Activism and Dissemination”, turns outward as it reflects critically on the ideal relationship between research and activism. @mcneilwillson.bsky.social, @annameier.bsky.social, @aurelmondon.bsky.social, @k8ebrown.bsky.social 8/

Part VI: Activism and Dissemination
27. Critically examining the role of the scholar in policymaking on the far right - Richard McNeil-Willson, Michael Vaughan, Michael Zeller
28. Critical reflexivity and research on state responses to the far right - Anna A. Meier
29. An anti-racist scholar-activist ethic: Working in service to racial justice - Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Laura Connelly, Aurelien Mondon
30. The far right from the underside of history: Decolonising far right studies - Isis Giraldo
31. How should journalists engage with the far right? - Gary Younge
32. Researching the far right: Towards an ethics of talking 'about' - Katy Brown

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The Ethics of Researching the Far & Extreme Right @ethexnetwork.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

The fifth section, “Know Your Enemy: Ethical Considerations for Participant Engagement,” concerns the difficult dance involved in research on (former) far-right participants @joanbraune.bsky.social, @drkatw.bsky.social, @profjohndrury.bsky.social 7/

Part V: Know your enemy: Ethical considerations for participant engagement
22. Ethics of listening: Between criticism and empathy in oral history interviews and politically charged research contexts - Vanessa Tautter
23. Harms of the compassion narrative: Ethical considerations regarding stories of disengagement from white supremacist movements - Joan Braune
24. Voices from the past: A psychosocial reflection on interacting with a far-right activist - Yutaka Yoshida
25. Interviewing the 'unlovable': On the challenges of conducting feminist research on far-right women - Katherine Williams
26. Examining far-right empowerment experiences using Youtube and Parler data: Managing researcher safety, and ethical and methodological requirements - Carina Hoerst, John Drury

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The Ethics of Researching the Far & Extreme Right @ethexnetwork.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

The fourth section, "Safety and Care" centres considerations of harm, risk, and the ethics of care when researching a topic that is inherently harmful. @antoniavaughan.bsky.social, @luccousineau.bsky.social 6/

Part IV: Safety and Care
17. How do you respond when you feel under threat? A reflective exploration into my experience with the far right online - Alice Sibley
18. Community building as a response to care in studying the far right - Kayla Preston
19. Negotiating contradiction in success and safety: a consideration of environmental constraints on risk management - Antonia Vaughan
20. Spectre: covert research in digital far-right 'red zones' - Jackson Wood
21. Navigating a feminist ethics of care, ethnographic methods and academic activism in researching men's rights and the far right: a researcher's struggles - Luc Cousineau

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The Ethics of Researching the Far & Extreme Right @ethexnetwork.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

In the third section, "Memory and far right studies", contributors consider how collective memory and heritage are appropriated and mobilised by the far right. @lornarichardson.bsky.social, @meghanetinsley.bsky.social, @narson.bsky.social, @jean23bean.bsky.social 5/

Part III: The Haunting Past
12. Heritage, archaeology, ancestry and the far right - David Farrell-Banks, Lorna-Jane Richardson
13. Another way to do ethics: Uses of the landscape in the far-right cultural milieu and the ethics of researching them - Andrew Fergus Wilson
14. Researching memory and heritage during a culture war - Meghan Tinsley, Sadia Habib, Chloe Peacock and Ruth Ramsden-Karelse
15. Archiving the extreme: Ethical challenges in sharing, researching and teaching - Daniel Jones
16. Researching racism in racist times - Jean Beaman

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The Ethics of Researching the Far & Extreme Right @ethexnetwork.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

The second section, "Positionality, standpoint and intersectionality", focuses on how the positionality and standpoint of researchers can impact not only on the field, but on wider society. 4/ @aurelmondon.bsky.social, @elsabmeuller.bsky.social, @aaronwinter.bsky.social

Part II: Positionality, standpoint and intersectionality
6. 'Far right studies' and the unbearable whiteness of being - Aurelien Mondon
7. Safety and silence: Oral history, far right research and the paradox of the 'vocal minority' - Imo Kaufman
8. On the incompleteness of ethnography: Embracing and navigating failure as a principle in research on the far right - Balsa Lubarda
9. Ethnographic empathy and research ethics as methodological whiteness - Catherine Tebaldi, Rae Jereza
10. Emotions in methodology: Resisting violent ideological structures in the knowledge-production of extremisms - Elsa Bengtsson Meuller
11. Reflections on researching armed Nazis as an unarmed left-wing Jew: Politics, privilege, and practical concerns - Aaron Winter

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The Ethics of Researching the Far & Extreme Right @ethexnetwork.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Section 1, “What’s in a Name?”, engages with key terminological debates which have been core to the discipline for decades, but seeks to push traditional discussions further by weighing the impact of our choice of words @kurtsengul.bsky.social, @georgenewth.bsky.social, @mirandaioss.bsky.social

1. What the far right is(n't) - Omran Shroufi
2. Race, racism, and the far right: Critical reflections for the field - Kurt Sengul
3. When racism seems to be the hardest word: Critical reflections from studying the Lega (Nord) - George Newth
4. Violence and the far right: Our ethical duty to the othered - Ryan Switzer
5. Ecofascism, far-right ecologism and neo-Malthusianism - Miranda Iossifidis

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The Ethics of Researching the Far & Extreme Right @ethexnetwork.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Core to our project and as our intro states: 'it is crucial to undertake research on the far right in defence of and in solidarity with those targeted and harmed by these ideologies, while also acknowledging the threat posed to broader democratic principles'. 2/

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