http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/issi/rss Recent eScholarship items from Institute for the Study of Societal Issues Fri, 15 May 2026 06:22:48 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sg020kg Introduction—When the Radical Becomes Ordinary: A State of the Field of the Far Right in US History https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9sg020kg Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Burtin, Olivier https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8w7855vc "Chased from the Mainstream": Tito Perdue and Far-Right Fiction Read via Bourdieu's Field Theory https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8w7855vc Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Sabbioni, Sof https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8r36g830 Mapping the Influence of Conservative Catholic Political Thought on the American Right https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8r36g830 Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Ebin, Chelsea https://escholarship.org/uc/item/853199mj The Klandidate: Senator Earle B. Mayfield and the Ku Klux Klan in Federal Politics https://escholarship.org/uc/item/853199mj Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Harcourt, Felix https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bb1x8mm 3.2 letter from the editor https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bb1x8mm Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Rosenthal, Lawrence https://escholarship.org/uc/item/56z0s6qc God's Soldiers: Clerico-Fascism and the Deep History of Christian Nationalism https://escholarship.org/uc/item/56z0s6qc Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 McPhee-Browne, Alex https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4ch6s67r “A Planet-Wide Race War”: The Global Circulation of White Supremacist Violence in the Late Twentieth Century https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4ch6s67r Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Burke, Kyle https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2rx1b05z “Democracy Must Be Made Safe for the World”: Ralph Adams Cram and the Tradition of American Monarchism https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2rx1b05z Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Ruth, Christian T. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2q15k8jh 3.2 front matter https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2q15k8jh Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/21z721js <em>JRWS</em>, vol. 3, iss. 2 (2025) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/21z721js Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9xv1j4kb Ausländerfrei!&nbsp;The Hoyerswerda Pogrom, 1991 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9xv1j4kb Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 MacKellar, Landis https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8rv3v7mc 3.1 letter from the editor https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8rv3v7mc Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Rosenthal, Lawrence https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8pt8q64h <p style="text-align: justify; ">The process of globalization in recent years has ignited an unprecedented level of far-right transatlantic cooperation. Individuals and members of organizations from the United States traveled to Europe intending to establish permanent relations with their ideological cousins, while new ways of online communication enabled extreme right-wing organizations to share ideas and methods of political activism and learn from each other. This phenomenon is observable in Serbia even though bilateral relations with the United States are troubled by the US-led NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. For this reason, anti-American feelings developed among many Serbs, with the far right taking the most uncompromising attitude. Nevertheless, the American far right has inspired and influenced right-wing and even mainstream political organizations in Serbia. The first part of this article examines how extreme right-wing groups in Serbia became exposed to American far-right... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8pt8q64h Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Sevo, Andrej https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8988q9mz "Based" Bookishness: White Nationalist Strategies for a Post-Print Age https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8988q9mz Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Rice, Jenny https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vg6k903 Review of Francesca Scrinzi,&nbsp;<em>The Racialization of Sexism: Men, Women, and Gender in the Populist Radical Right</em> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7vg6k903 Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Matthies, Paula Rösch, Viktoria Köttig, Michaela https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4b0810jw 3.1 front matter https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4b0810jw Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3k77d9m7 <em>JRWS</em>, vol. 3, iss. 1 (2025) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3k77d9m7 Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2qh1p7nn <p>The manosphere consists of numerous anti-feminist websites, blogs, and online forums that are now widely considered misogynistic and male supremacist. Among the heterogeneous manosphere groups is the gender-separatist Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW). This article recounts a four-week digital ethnographic study that investigated the emotional and relational dynamics of the Reddit MGTOW forum. I found that rage and fear toward women are central to MGTOW users, as users worked together to reinterpret their feelings of rage and fear to construct a shared narrative that positions women as perpetrators. This worldview obscures the important role masculine ideology plays in male loneliness and disconnection. Giving advice and emotional support on the forum cultivated a sense of belonging and provided a space for men to navigate feelings of loneliness, frustration, and social displacement. Ultimately, MGTOW users expressed a desire to transcend restrictive gender ideals such as husband... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2qh1p7nn Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Fowler, Jess https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27p4p0bw Review of Talia Lavin, <em>Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America</em> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/27p4p0bw Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Minter, Shea https://escholarship.org/uc/item/117618qz <p>Students in India have played politically significant roles both before and since independence. Organizations of both the left and the right attempted and at various points succeeded in mobilizing mass support among students. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the front organizations spawned by it, known collectively as the Sangh, have long been major proponents of Hindu nationalism and have considered students important. Despite this, the Sangh’s relationship with students has not received systematic analysis. This article, using sources primarily produced by the Sangh, analyzes different aspects of the Sangh’s relationship with students between 1947 and 1985. It attempts to demonstrate how during this period, primarily through its student front, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (All India Students’ Council, ABVP), the Sangh was keen on gaining control and influence over student politics. To do so, the ABVP sought to strategically moderate its image. At times... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/117618qz Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Kureshi, Sahil https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0745-0844 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/048087hq <p>The article explores the influence of far-right publishing in Greece since 1974. It examines the role of publishers in spreading ultranationalist and neo-Nazi ideologies, highlighting the connection between publishing and political action. It discusses the rise of the Golden Dawn party and the shift from traditional Greek nationalism to international far-right extremism. The study reveals how far-right publishers operate outside mainstream channels, using specialized networks to distribute materials. It also notes the emergence of new publishers and the integration of international far-right themes into Greek politics. The research underscores the cultural impact of far-right publishing, emphasizing its role in shaping public discourse and normalizing extremist ideologies. The article provides a comprehensive analysis of the far-right publishing landscape, documenting its evolution and influence on Greek society.&nbsp;</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/048087hq Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Karakatsouli, Anna https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8979-7041 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rg1p0tp Introduction—Heroes and Hard Truths: Gender, Sexuality, and the Sociolinguistics of the Far Right https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9rg1p0tp Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Tebaldi, Catherine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6144-6853 Burnett, Scott https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nm9h1vm Letter from the Editor https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nm9h1vm Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Rosenthal, Lawrence https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68r6j6nk From Pajama Boy to Pepe the Frog: Power, Essentialism, and the Nation-State in the Manosphere https://escholarship.org/uc/item/68r6j6nk Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 McIntosh, Janet https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5ds8f6db <p>This article delves into a recurring dilemma facing contemporary fascist movements: how to communicate ideological purity to its hardcore base and at the same time appeal to imagined new voters and recruits? By analyzing how the most prominent fascist movement in Sweden, the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), publicly communicates its ideas about family issues and the role of women, we shed light on the semiotic work done by the far right to merge common social conservative tropes with an extremist discourse. Using the tools of social semiotics and multimodal critical discourse studies, the article shows how the NRM uses a range of semiotic resources as it interweaves mainstream conservative discourses about the nature of women and men, recognizable to a broader public (not least to supporters of the Swedish right-wing populist party, the Sweden Democrats), with Nazi keywords appealing to ideological in-groups. The analysis also reveals how the NRM uses image bank semiotics,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5ds8f6db Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Westberg, Gustav https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1731-1940 Årman, Henning https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5d38w40h <p>This article examines the role of language ideology in the argumentation of both “alt-right” and “gender-critical” discourses about gender. While positioning themselves on different sides of the left-right political spectrum, both groups make use of referentialist language ideologies to establish themselves as authorities over language. Referentialism is a type of tautological reasoning that posits language and dictionary-style definitions as the final arbiter of reality (e.g., “A woman is an adult human female; if it is an adult human female, it must be a woman”). This article contributes to a broader understanding of how language ideology functions as a powerful rhetorical tool in the fight against anti-gender movements.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5d38w40h Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Kosse, Maureen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4hh0n4rm <em>JRWS</em>, vol. 2, iss. 2 (2024) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4hh0n4rm Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4gr5v9hj <p>Since at least 2012, right-wing politicians, media, and the Catholic Church have been demonizing the LGBTQ+ community as promoters of the “LGBT ideology,” a substitute term for “gender ideology” in Poland. The vitriolic anti-LGBTQ+ discourse has become a central resource in the right-wing construction of Polish patriotism and national identity. This discourse is adopted by many mainstream conservative public figures and is part of the global anti-genderism register that has been taken up by transnationally linked actors and institutions. In this article, I adopt Critical Discourse Analysis, Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis, and the Discourse Historical Approach to examine how anti-genderist actors in Poland discursively construct “truth” through what looks like logical argumentation and appeals to assumed “common sense” knowledge, and how such constructions are used to support appeals to emotion and Catholic faith while also co-opting and redefining progressive terms... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4gr5v9hj Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Baran, Dominika https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4051d761 <p style="text-align: justify; ">In light of the so-called Great Meme War, a meme-based propaganda campaign waged in favor of Donald Trump’s 2016 candidacy, this article identifies a type of disembodied far-right “meme warrior” that ironically denies longings for heroism. This ambivalent stance toward heroic masculine ideals, which characterizes the meme warriors’ (self-)portraits, stands in stark contrast to more serious traditional far-right heroic imaginaries. This phenomenon is discussed in relation to the notion of the post-heroic, a concept used in military studies to describe the shrinking willingness and (perceived) need to sacrifice one’s life in combat. The second part of the article explores the construction of a ludic collective heroism in the alt-right’s responses to Shia LaBeouf’s “He Will Not Divide Us” (HWNDU) project, which was conceived as a participatory video work in public space inviting people to repeat those words while gazing into a camera. The article... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4051d761 Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Schmidt, Johanna Maj https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3p24c517 <p>Scores of male right-wing influencers offer advice to young men online on fitness, diet, and bodybuilding. Representations of the “right” kind of man draw attention to rippling muscles, square jaws, and beautifully symmetrical faces as evidence of racial superiority. This contemporary resurgence of “body fascism” in the hypersemiotized online spaces of the far right, however, remains underexamined. In this article, we analyze Man’s World magazine, a digital publication edited by the neofascist lifestyle influencer “Raw Egg Nationalist.” Through gendered semiotic and linguistic anthropological analysis of the text, we argue that hardness, understood in myriad ways, is the moral flavor of a far-right masculinist speech register that combines elements of mental fortitude, muscular strength, sexual potency, and physical beauty at the individual level with racial renewal and national invulnerability at the political level. We show how readiness for violence and the “return” to traditional... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3p24c517 Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Tebaldi, Catherine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6144-6853 Burnett, Scott https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1497-9099 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2bj7g89q Why Everybody Wants to Be a Fascist and Why We Should Study Language to Understand It https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2bj7g89q Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Milani, Tommaso M. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1w75v3z1 Front Matter https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1w75v3z1 Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0h13v5dt <p>Digital ethnographic and linguistic anthropological analysis of the far right is an invaluable resource for explaining the gradual processes of socialization through which individuals are recruited into right-wing extremism. This article examines online masturbation abstention programs in three linguistic contexts (English, Japanese, and Brazilian Portuguese) as potential sites that mobilize gender and sexual norms to draw subjects into anti-feminist and racist sociopolitical visions. NoFap (known as <em>nōfappu</em> or <em>onakin</em> in Japan) is a fairly popular trend that is understood to help men regain the focus, vitality, and energy they have lost to pornography addiction. By analyzing the ways figures of personhood are constructed through the enregisterment of disparate semiotic materials in these very different contexts, we argue that the right-wing abstemious masculine subject is produced through tensions between neoliberal generalized competition and the imagined... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0h13v5dt Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Burnett, Scott https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1497-9099 Borba, Rodrigo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4348-1812 Hiramoto, Mie https://escholarship.org/uc/item/28h9s6f0 <p>This article is an attempt to provide a genealogy of the sexual emotions and desires at work in contemporary far-right antisemitism. Embedded in primary research while also drawing heavily on the existing literature on antisemitism, the article seeks to make an intervention into the historiography of antisemitism and to argue for the existence of a sexual component at the heart of antisemitism, both historically and today. The article starts by briefly discussing a very short and specific story from Irish Jewish history in the 1900s, and then moves to a seemingly very unconnected story about the vocabulary of twenty-first-century American politics. And then what follows—a discussion of how these two stories are essentially intertwined and a broad overview of the history of antisemitism—argues for sexual antisemitism as a key concept for understanding anti-Jewish ideologies.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/28h9s6f0 Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Beatty, Aidan J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1fx6c2zt Indigenous students from Latin America are a growing but often overlooked population in U.S. public schools. In this research brief we review current research on Indigenous Maya students whose families originate from Yucatan in Mexico and we draw on findings from a research project led by the first author. We identify the most salient challenges that Indigenous students encounter in school and we provide recommendations to develop and strengthen academic supports.&nbsp; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1fx6c2zt Mon, 9 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Baquedano-López, Patricia Zamora, Marisela https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sq3t2q2 While a large and growing body of literature has investigated the relationship between music and social movements in the U.S., few scholars focus on the role that radio and music played during the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz by the Indians of All Tribes. Analyzing thirty-nine episodes from the Pacifica archive of <em>Radio Free Alcatraz</em>, alongside interviews conducted with organizers, participants, and performers associated with the occupation, as well as field work at contemporary Sunrise Gatherings on Alcatraz Island, this paper examines the relationship between radio, sound, music, humor, and political activism emanating from the 1969 occupation. I argue that the sounds of Alcatraz—including the radio broadcasts—carry the lessons of the past into the present and future and assert sonic sovereignty. This sonic continuity serves as both a memory and a guide for future Indigenous movements, challenging settler-colonial norms by maintaining a connection to land, ancestors,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8sq3t2q2 Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Reyes, Everardo https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2qw0m970 For over a century, Los Angeles (LA) has been the site for the extraction, refining, and consumption of vast quantities of petroleum. Yet as active drilling wanes, as land becomes increasingly scarce, and as affordable housing shortages reach record levels, cities must confront the legacies of oil production.&nbsp; In Vista Hermosa, a neighborhood a mile north of downtown LA, residents have sought to decommission hundreds of wells in one oil reservoir, the “LA City Field.” According to residents, the wells buried alongside their homes, schools, and parks are dangerous despite not producing oil for decades. Law co-produces urban infrastructures like oil wells, and with those infrastructures, new kinds of uncertainty and risk. This article analyzes the foundational role of law in creating this legacy of deserted urban oil wells; the work of residents to make visible Vista Hermosa’s&nbsp;petroleum past; and the effects of rapid real estate development in the neighborhood. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2qw0m970 Mon, 9 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Hong, Caylee https://escholarship.org/uc/item/21f8v0s1 <p>To conceal their activities, far-right networks manipulate similarity heuristics that suggest their constituent organizations are discrete and coherent. When an organization crafts a public image indicating that only those who wear the same uniforms and march in the same marches are part of an organization, it implies that those who do not, are not. This use of cognitive shortcuts assists far-right organizations in crafting their organizational boundaries to obscure internal divisions of labor. That these disguised internal divisions of labor exist is strong evidence to support a renewed focus on the intra-organizational dynamics of far-right organizations—a focus that pivots from a discursive to a materialist understanding of the far right. I use the case of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), one of the world’s largest far-right organizations, to argue that similarity heuristics disguise far-right connectivity. Paying granular attention to the organizational boundary-making... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/21f8v0s1 Tue, 6 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Pal, Felix https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9x20f636 <p>The January 6, 2021, Capitol riot appeared as an extraordinary and shocking event to many American citizens. In fact, the various framings of the riot such as “insurrection,” “sedition,” or “domestic terrorism” seem to confirm the unprecedented nature of the day. By contrast, in this article we argue that January 6 can be understood in terms of its ordinariness, that is, as “the most ordinary thing that could happen” when viewed in the context of right-wing politics. We first argue that the reliance on a universalized dichotomy between authoritarianism and democracy in current research on right-wing politics in the United States tends to reify those terms, and thus miss the ordinary and routine dimension of antidemocratic practices. We subsequently propose the concept antidemocratic cultures to understand how right-wing political dispositions are fabricated through and mediated by rhetorical acts including speech, written texts, and embodied everyday practice. We analyze the... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9x20f636 Mon, 1 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Valayden, Diren Walzer, Belinda Moore, Alexandra S https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9st0d2gs Burn after Reading: Research-Related Trauma, Burnout, and Resilience in Right-Wing Studies https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9st0d2gs Mon, 1 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Pruden, Meredith L. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9nr5m8j4 <em>JRWS</em>, vol. 2, iss. 1 (2024) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9nr5m8j4 Mon, 1 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/909156dj Introduction—The Curse of Relevance: Challenges Facing Right-Wing Studies https://escholarship.org/uc/item/909156dj Mon, 1 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Bauer, AJ Juarez Miro, Clara Giraldo, Isis https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8k51x134 <p>In this article we describe our five-year research project on the notorious radical free speech service and fringe platform Gab. During these years we scraped an entire platform, prepared it into a dataset for analysis, and opened it up to a broader community of students and researchers. Each of these projects provides us not just with a small slice of platformized far-right culture but also with a larger sphere of a fringe platform. However, the overarching goal of the Gab project was to contribute to a methodology for the study of the contemporary platformized far right. The atypical nature of the project posed many methodological, epistemological, and legal challenges. It therefore kicked off an institutional learning process about the possibilities, legal boundaries, and best practices for research compliant with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In this article we argue that the study of the platformized far right should have a thorough understanding of the medium... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8k51x134 Mon, 1 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 de Winkel, Tim Gorzeman, Ludo de Wilde de Ligny, Sofie ten Heuvel, Thomas Blekkenhorst, Melissa Prins, Sander https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5366-2353 Schäfer, Mirko Tobias https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82b6p86f Letter from the Editor https://escholarship.org/uc/item/82b6p86f Mon, 1 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6w52c862 Front Matter https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6w52c862 Mon, 1 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6kd5s122 <p>Since 2016, there has been a flood of research on the US right spanning disciplines and methodologies. This article theorizes a conceptual heuristic drawn from the writing of Stuart Hall to integrate this scholarship. To make the case for what I term Hall’s political sociology, I stage a dialogue with Arlie Hochschild, whose 2016 ethnography Strangers in Their Own Land has become a classic in the literature. While both Hall and Hochschild stress the importance of documenting the affective nature of political subjectivities, Hochschild’s investment in a politics of reconciliation prevents her from scaling analysis up to political elites, a move that would enable her to better contextualize her findings. Hall offers a model for such an approach, as he connects political subjectivities to acts of articulation; these acts to hegemonic projects; and the impact of such projects to the conjuncture. I stylize Hall’s four-step conceptual frame as a relational cycle because it reconnects... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6kd5s122 Mon, 1 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Leeds, Tyler https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9393-1493 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3v54j28v <p style="text-align: justify; ">This article examines the appeal of Serbian nationalist ideology among the contemporary far right. We argue that the discursive othering of Bosnian Muslims as “Turks” as well as the Serbian grand narrative presenting the Bosnian War as a civilizational struggle between Christian Europe and Islam are uniquely resonant with the popular anti-Muslim and xenophobic discourses that are mobilizing right-wing extremists across the globe. Through an analysis of Serbian and far-right discourses, we demonstrate how the patterns of representation that were used to incite and justify the violence committed against Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s are being exported to remote corners of the world via the internet, where they merge with extraneous Islamophobic and racist ideologies to inspire a new generation of extremism, hatred, and violence.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3v54j28v Mon, 1 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Karcic, Hikmet Hanson-Green, Monica https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xm629cv Irrationality and Pathology: How Public Health Can Help to Make Sense in Right-Wing Studies https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xm629cv Mon, 1 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Tran, Emma Q. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xw485rp Black Feminist Strategies for Right-Wing Studies https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xw485rp Mon, 1 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Buchanan, Blu https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0dz5488c From the Margins to the Mainstream: A Personal Reflection on Three Decades of Studying and Teaching Far-Right Politics https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0dz5488c Mon, 1 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Mudde, Cas https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1cc0c4tw The Morrill Act of 1862 established agricultural and mechanical arts colleges by granting public lands to states to promote the liberal and practical education of (white, male, Christian) U.S. citizens of average means. In this paper, I use Charles Mills’ (1997) Racial Contract framework and Patrick Wolfe’s (2007) concept of <em>corpus nullius </em>to situate the Morrill Act in a white supremacist political system that intimately entwined settler-colonial expansion, agricultural knowledge production, and the founding of U.S. public higher education through creation of the land-grant universities. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1cc0c4tw Thu, 29 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Fanshel, Rosalie Z https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1sw4d67b <p>In the wake of the October 1929 stock market crash, conservatives formed an array of organizations and publications that aimed to resist the nation’s steady embrace of New Deal liberalism. Crucial to their opposition was a group of “nationalist conservatives” whose most prominent member was the operative and propagandist Merwin K. Hart. Hart’s worldview, which embraced nativism, antisemitism, anti-interventionism, and economic libertarianism, was shared by a range of figures on the right whose contributions to the emergence of the postwar conservative movement have not been studied. Hart’s organization, the New York State Economic Council (later renamed the National Economic Council), played a critical function in propagating conservative ideas throughout the years of liberal political hegemony. Scholarship on conservatism has generally cast the early opponents of the New Deal as principled libertarians, unsullied by bigotry and nativism; this article challenges that picture,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1sw4d67b Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 McPhee-Browne, Alex https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5z1751rw Suicide is the leading cause of non-accidental death for Native American young people ages 15-24 years old. Concerningly, suicide rates have continued to rise over the past decade despite a myriad of prevention efforts. This shortcoming has urged some scholars to (re)examine key theoretical constructs to better direct suicide prevention efforts in tribal communities. Using Indigenous Wholistic Theory, an algorithmic approach was employed to identify a broader set of factors that may influence suicidal ideation among Native American high schoolers in California (n = 2,609). Lasso penalized regression was used to select the most accurate predictors of suicidal ideation. Ten out of the 17 input predictors were significant including: depressive symptoms; school-based victimization; sexual and gender minority status; lifetime use of alcohol, vapes, and cannabis; breakfast consumption; access to alcohol and other drugs; and parent education level. The study found that a combination... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5z1751rw Tue, 29 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Sierra, Valentín Q https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9tk51577 The terrorist attack on Brazil’s capitol on January 8, 2023, showcased the country’s empowered, embittered extreme right, whose hallmarks will be familiar to students of conservatism further afield: anachronistic anticommunism; hostility to liberal democracy; a sense of embattlement, despite controlling key institutions and platforms; a tapestry of disinformation and conspiracy theory; vaguely Christian cultural sensibilities and militantly Christian chauvinisms; and increasing adherence across national and denominational frontiers to an amorphous, antiglobalist brand of antidemocratic and patriarchal autocracy. This article argues that this right represents the migration of formerly extreme iterations of conservatism—including, remarkably, monarchism—from the fringe to the center of reactionary and even national politics. Monarchism, while by no means controlling Brazil’s fractious and unruly right (or series of rights), shows us what conservativism in Brazil looks like in the... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9tk51577 Wed, 5 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Cowan, Benjamin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8wc8x96c Letter from the Editor https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8wc8x96c Wed, 5 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/53w442f7 The purpose of this article is first to elucidate the nature and worldview of the ideology of pre–World War II Japan that inspired the Japanese elite to embark on global conquest and that mobilized the Japanese masses to fight to the death even after the dropping of the atomic bombs. Second, the aim is to examine how this ideology first emerged in the Meiji period and how it came to dominate Japanese politics until the end of the war. Third, it will illustrate not only what has survived of this form of ultranationalism in the postwar period, identifying the ideas of core thinkers and organizations, but it will also examine the emergence of different, or perhaps more moderate, forms of Japanese nationalism, pinpointing their key ideas and describing their visions for a future Japan. Finally, I will attempt to shed light on the historical forces and scenarios that might return Japanese ultranationalists to the center of political influence and power in the Japanese state and overturn... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/53w442f7 Wed, 5 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Skya, Walter A. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5368g17d How do the economy, right-wing legacies, and personal style shape today’s autocracies? Analysts have commented that especially three contemporary autocrats—Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Narendra Modi, and Rodrigo Duterte—have similar styles, motivations, or bases of support. Yet, this paper will show that the paths that took them to their thrones are quite distinct. Neoliberalization had disorganized society in Turkey, India, and the Philippines. The rule of “strongmen,” in response, showed the way out of this disorganization. The main divergence, however, is that Erdoğanism introduced statism and mass organization as against the disorganizing thrust of neoliberalization. Modi parallels Erdoğan in the civic paramilitary aspects of rule, but not in statism. Other than a weak infrastructure thrust, Duterte did not make the economy into a central issue in the way Erdoğan and Modi did. Moreover, he did not deploy civic activism at all. These three routes have thoroughly shaped and differentiated... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5368g17d Wed, 5 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Tuğal, Cihan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nm1n0m3 Karen Lee Ashcraft, <em>Wronged and Dangerous: Viral Masculinity and the Populist Pandemic</em> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nm1n0m3 Wed, 5 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Pruden, Meredith L. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hd329fh Trumpism’s Paleoconservative Roots and Dealignment https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hd329fh Wed, 5 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Bloodworth, Jeffrey https://escholarship.org/uc/item/33k3h5xm Front Matter https://escholarship.org/uc/item/33k3h5xm Wed, 5 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32d7p28c Right-Wing Politics in Europe https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32d7p28c Wed, 5 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Givens, Terri https://escholarship.org/uc/item/313700c7 Twenty-first-century elected right-wing regimes share many similarities apart from being led by “authoritarian populists” who centralize power in themselves and represent ethnic or religious majorities at the expense of other citizens. Since higher judiciaries are key to ensuring executive accountability and the separation of powers in a liberal democratic constitutional setup, they are on the front lines of authoritarian attempts at institutional capture. Unlike earlier dictatorships that suspended existing constitutional protections or imposed martial law, current authoritarian regimes maintain a semblance of legality and constitutionalism while in practice attempting to remake the judiciary in their own image. This phenomenon has been variously termed “autocratic legalism,” “abusive constitutionalism,” and “populist constitutionalism.” In this article, I look at how the Indian Supreme Court (SC) has responded to executive incursions under the Narendra Modi regime since 2014.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/313700c7 Wed, 5 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Sundar, Nandini https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1s50z2x8 <em>JRWS</em>, vol. 1, iss. 1 (2023) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1s50z2x8 Wed, 5 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1n97x4h2 <p>This paper discusses the regimes of Jarosław Kaczyński in Poland (2015–) and Viktor Orbán in Hungary (2010–) from the perspective of a curious paradox: they are very different in functioning but adhere to right-wing ideological frames that are very similar. First, we argue for a dual-level approach to understanding the formal and informal nature of these regimes, and we identify Poland as a conservative autocratic attempt and Hungary as an established patronal autocracy. After a comparative analysis of the two systems, we analyze the regimes’ common ideological frames and explain how legitimacy panels fit the purposes of an ideology-driven regime (Poland) and an ideology-applying one (Hungary). Finally, the analysis is used to explain the divergent responses of the Polish and the Hungarian regimes to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, which also brought the mutual relations of the two de-democratizing countries in the European Union to a breaking point.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1n97x4h2 Wed, 5 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Madlovics, Bálint Magyar, Bálint https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7872f6xj <p>The nationwide system of postsecondary education in the United States was launched in 1862 when the Morrill Act provided each state with “public” lands to sell in order to raise funds to establish universities. The landgrant university movement is lauded as the first major federal funding for higher education and for making liberal and practical education accessible to Americans of average means. However, hidden beneath the ofttold land-grant narrative is the land itself: the nearly 11 million acres of land sold through the Morrill Act was expropriated from tribal nations. Due to the California Land Act of 1851, which served to dissolve pre-statehood land claims, the failure of the federal government to ratify 18 treaties made with California Indians, and other systematic acts of genocidal violence and dispossession carried out in the second half of the 19th century, the Morrill Act had particularly dire consequences for California Indians.&nbsp;</p><p>The intent of this report... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7872f6xj Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues & Native American Student Development. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7dc7t9jd Right-Wing Studies: A Roundtable on the State of the Field https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7dc7t9jd Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Bures, Eliah Mudde, Cas McIntosh, Janet HoSang, Daniel Martinez Lowndes, Joseph Block, Fred Givens, Terri Moallem, Minoo Ahmed, Hilal Figueiredo, Ângela Mason, Carol Joffe, Carole Griffin, Roger Rosenthal, Lawrence https://escholarship.org/uc/item/02h8c8m4 This paper examines the ideological conceptions of language and literacy practices in an adult, English as a Second Language (ESL) citizenship class for naturalization. Naturalization refers to the process for obtaining U.S citizenship undergone by lawful permanent residents after meeting extensive federal requirements. I situate neoliberalism within settler-colonial, anti-Black logics, and I define neoliberal citizens through language and economic ideologies. By privileging ESL citizenship students’ perspectives, this paper shows how the ESL citizenship classroom, like others, continues to embrace reductive notions of functionality through English-only instruction. I trace how students take up these neoliberal ideologies through performative belonging and performative othering as well as the ways students deviate from these values and the possibilities therein. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/02h8c8m4 Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Villegas, Karen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/67q8x620 A growing body of literature suggests that the neighborhoods that young people live in have a substantial influence on their lives. As part of this work, researchers have begun to investigate the relationship between young people and local neighborhood institutions such as schools, libraries, grocery stores and youth centers. Engagement with these local institutions has been observed to strengthen youth well-being. Often, this area of research relies on the perspectives of adults and neglects youth experience. This is problematic, given that young people have a great deal of choice and autonomy when selecting neighborhood institutions to engage. Thus, this phenomenological qualitative pilot study highlights youth voice and lived experiences to explore which neighborhood institutions are important to young people and begins to unpack the ways institutional engagement influences well-being. I conducted semi-structured interviews with ten young people between the ages of 14 and 20... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/67q8x620 Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 Mathias, Brenda https://escholarship.org/uc/item/09d6w4t3 <p>Background and Objectives</p><p>Researchers have increasingly considered the importance of&nbsp;<em>age-friendly</em>&nbsp;communities to improve the health and well-being of older adults. Studies have primarily focused on the built environment, such as community infrastructure, older adult behavior, and environmental expectations. Less is known about the role of cultural characteristics in shaping perceptions of&nbsp;<em>age-friendly</em>&nbsp;environments, especially among racial and ethnic minorities.</p><p>Research Design and Methods</p><p>Using an ethnographic methodological approach, including participant observation in a Latinx community near New York City and 72 semi-structured interviews, this study examines how older Latinxs characterize&nbsp;<em>age-friendly</em>&nbsp;communities.</p><p>Results</p><p>Latinx older adults described their community as&nbsp;<em>age-friendly</em>&nbsp;by way of the concept&nbsp;<em>Tranquilo Ambiente</em>, translated as calm or peaceful... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/09d6w4t3 Thu, 4 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Plasencia, Melanie Z https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zd6f7g9 While the far right is usually associated with an actively practiced hero worship, the relationship of new right-wing movements to the heroic remains undertheorized. This paper seeks to fill this void arguing that far-right online internet meme culture is marked by an ambivalent relationship to heroism, which stands in contrast to the serious, unambiguous take on heroism in “traditional” Nazi and neo-Nazi propaganda: In the context of the Great Meme War, a (partly) self-ironic approach to the desire for heroism can be observed, which, as I argue, serves to <em>immunise</em> the heroic in view of its feared loss/absence in the online sphere. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3zd6f7g9 Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Schmidt, Johanna Maj https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4hx5s4cq <p>Mexico’s current government, led by president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (December 2018-November 2024), launched a program of major overhaul of the country’s governance named “The Fourth Transformation (4T)”. While the reform agenda is largely supported by the masses, these measures have met a strong, multifaceted and relentless reaction from the social and political interests being affected, couched in a right-wing discourse. This opposition, carried out either by individual actors or by coalitions of organized interests, has been sarcastically dubbed TUMOR (“Todos unidos contra Morena”, All United against Morena, the party in power) by 4T supporters.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This article aims at mapping and analyzing the right-wing movement of resistance to the 4T, identifying its main individual and collective actors, their strategies and their international allies. It tests the hypothesis suggested in Kevin Middlebrook’s theory about conservatism and the right in Latin America:... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4hx5s4cq Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Castro-Rea, Julián Centeno García, Gerardo https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7kx7k25f The Morrill Act of 1862 established agricultural and mechanical arts colleges by granting public lands to states to promote the liberal and practical education of U.S. citizens of average means. The resulting land-grant university movement brought liberal ideals to (white, male, Christian) Americans by reducing geographic and class barriers to education, while also serving settler colonial interests via redistribution of Indigenous lands and institutionalization of agricultural knowledge production that has entrenched white supremacy. In this paper, I draw on recent scholarship by Lee and Ahtone (2020) to look at the question of land itself in relation to the Indigenous communities who were dispossessed, with a focus on the University of California. I explore the possibilities and limitations of data on the University of California’s specific land dispossessions, and how they might serve existing efforts by California Indian communities to rematriate land, obtain reparations from... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7kx7k25f Fri, 18 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Fanshel, Rosalie Z https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0qk317wb <p>A project was organized in the Netherlands to study and interrupt the psychological factors that divide women from one another. Black and white, Jewish and non-Jewish, and lesbian and heterosexual women met in parallel groups for several five month cycles. Groups focused first on self-disclosure (visibility and pride), then on within-group dynamics (solidarity), and then on between-group dynamics (alliance).</p><p>The black-white process was characterized by anger and blame on the black side and by guilt and fear of revenge or need for reassurance on the white side. The Jewish-non-Jewish process was characterized by feelings of isolation and needs for protection on the Jewish side and by feelings of banality and needs for seeking specialness by association on the non-Jewish side. The lesbian-heterosexual process was characterized by feelings of defiance and needs to exclude on the lesbian side and by feelings of confusion and needs for seeking self-definition through others... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0qk317wb Tue, 30 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Pheterson, Gail https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6068z3vn Nonprofit hospitals are required to provide “community benefits,” although this term and the associated levels of spending are not clearly defined. Over 75% of private nonprofit hospital community benefits are allocated to providing medical services for those who cannot afford care, and fewer investments are made to address structural and social determinants of health (SDOH). In particular, this spending is rarely used to redress racial inequities that shape health. In addition to spending on charity care and medical services, some private nonprofit hospitals invest in non-medical strategies to improve health outcomes. In California, private nonprofit hospitals report $12 billion in annual community benefits that include spending on non-medical strategies intended to improve health promoting conditions for vulnerable populations. This comparative case study analyzes data from organizational documents, interviews, and media communications to examine how hospital community investments... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6068z3vn Tue, 2 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Browne, Erica https://escholarship.org/uc/item/67c2c5qz Politics and Silenced Power of Eleanor Dulles: ‘Good Old Girl’ and ‘Great Woman’ History: From New Deal ‘Left’ to Cold War ‘Right’ https://escholarship.org/uc/item/67c2c5qz Fri, 21 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Phillips, Victoria https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6vm4p24n <p>This paper explores a self-determined space of health and healing centering ancestral, traditional, and Indigenous medicine and spiritual practices. While ancestral, traditional, and Indigenous (ATI) medicine overlaps with what is conventionally recognized as “alternative” medicine, what sets ATI apart in this work is the political orientation of the Oakland-based Healing Clinic Collective (HCC) and its network of ATI practitioners. Their political orientation and motivation for community organizing begins from practicing and promoting ATI healing modalities to address the impact of interrelated generational experiences shaped by institutional legacies of colonization vis a vis racial capitalism, eurocentrism, and white supremacy.  I use a transdisciplinary and decolonial framework to analyze the HCC’s “ceremonial organizing” model and show how the HCC clinic space offers expansive conceptions of what counts as health, healing, and care at the level of community health. I also... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6vm4p24n Fri, 15 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Aguilar, Angela R https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5942q92r The school-to-prison pipeline is perhaps the most well-known current framework for understanding the relationships between school and incarceration, but the prolific use of this pipeline metaphor is problematic. It tends to omit or obfuscate more complex understandings of the hows and whys adolescents end up incarcerated. Challenging the school-to-prison pipeline narrative is an important precursor to examining the complex factors that lead to and perpetuate youth incarceration, as well as developing solutions for addressing it. This paper first critiques the school-to-prison pipeline narrative. It then offers a way to reimagine how we can think of adolescent criminalization in terms of another metaphor, that of social death, which refers to the systematic criminalization and dehumanization of entire groups of people. Based on an interview study with twenty-nine adults who were first incarcerated as adolescents, this paper uses case studies of three Black and three Latino male... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5942q92r Wed, 30 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Medina Falzone, Gabby https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1q86f20p In a moment of rising nationalism, examining the particular glue that mobilizes people becomes important. In the US, many have rightfully pointed out that White nationalism is on the rise, a movement that seeks to create an all-White nation-state. But, not all far-right organizations in the U.S. are ideologically White nationalist or overtly racist. The Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys, two far-right organizations which have gained prominence in the post “Unite the Right Rally” period, boast multiracial membership and often repurpose antiracist language against their opponents. Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys lead demonstrations against the Left, Antifa, “social justice” advocates and the #Metoo movement, and have gained a following particularly in the Pacific Northwest and California. Through examining the history of far-right multiracial organizing, particularly in the 1990s anti-government militia movements, this paper seeks to contextualize this contemporary trend within a historical... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1q86f20p Mon, 7 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Cooper, Cloee Lamont Jenkins, Daryle https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2tn420vv <p>In this paper I examine the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ campaign to suppress liquor-use in Tohono O’odham, a federally recognized tribe whose homelands include southern Arizona, in the early 20^th century. Finding purchase in scholarship on Indian-citizenship and governmental power, I adumbrate the BIA’s liquor suppression program as it invoked the language of protection while actively seeking to police, punish, and incarcerate Native people. I argue that “protection” and criminalization were not only interrelated and coordinated, but also part and parcel of the BIA’s project to incorporate Native people as would-be citizens and political agents.</p><p> </p><p>Based on archival research and organized chronologically, this paper touches upon Arizona state prohibition (1915) and national prohibition (1920). It reveals the racialized and paternalistic logics of the BIA that led to the late creation of the Papago reservation (1916), and it examines the ways that the BIA’s... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2tn420vv Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Painter, Fantasia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/34r2d4hw Burger Boogaloo is an annual rock concert that has taken place in Mosswood Park since 2013. Every year a portion of the park is gated and closed off to the general public. Events like Burger Boogaloo are representative of a growing entertainment industry using public parks to cater to a new influx of wealthy residents in Oakland and beyond. At the same time, Mosswood Park has struggled with homeless encampments which impact park use; it is emblematic of a city and state experiencing an increase in unsheltered (homeless) residents as a result of a housing crisis. Based on observations, interviews, public meetings, and municipal documents, this work examines how residents are negotiating the realities and the pitfalls of Oakland’s transition to becoming a green city and its implementation of an urban environmental/sustainable agenda during an accompanying volatile gentrification process. This study focuses on a small but highly used green space that is crucial to the local community... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/34r2d4hw Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Corbin, C.N.E. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/87w5c5gp This paper takes up the assumption that social media offers a beneficial terrain for the far right to undermine open societies. Identifying perceptions of imperilment as the central impetus for the far right to justify illiberal politics, it analyzes how such perceptions are boosted under the digital condition. This contextualization is essential for our understanding of digital fascism: a highly fluid and ambivalent variant of fascism that lacks a clear organizational center as the digitally networked masses are the engine of their own manipulation. To substantiate this concept, we relate structures of social media to far-right agency in social media. Concretely, we show how the techniques of dramatic storytelling, gaslighting and metric manipulation correspond with the functioning of social media that catalyzes the amplification of fears, the diffusion of post-truth and the logic of numbers. Based on this, we argue that a new perspective on fascism is needed, since digital fascism... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/87w5c5gp Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Fielitz, Maik Marcks, Holger https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xt8p2wn In this thesis, I will assess the various factors that are believed to have a significant impact on economic conditions on American Indian reservations. Drawing upon literature related to the lingering effects of colonialism, social fragmentation and ineffective government institutions experienced by American Indian tribes and Native Alaskan villages, this study hypothesizes that the rate of poverty and the rate of unemployment on designated American Indian Areas (AIAs) is directly related to measures of dependency on the federal government, social cohesion on the reservation, and strength of governance institutions. In order to test these predictions I have analyzed a data set containing information on 352 American Indian tribes and Alaskan Native villages in the United States. I will measure these factors with the use of ordinary least squares regression (OLS) techniques. I am interested in answering the general questions: What are the factors and conditions that contribute... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xt8p2wn Mon, 10 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Lindeblad-Fry, Mary M. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6q68m0sr <p>This paper discusses the role that the right’s presence on the internet has played in this ideology’s rise to popularity and its successful attempts at winning elections. It highlights the main messages that specialized websites and the public chat groups available over Twitter, Facebook and Instagram spread around selected issues, such as climate change, immigration, gay rights, and race in Canada; in an attempt to determine the direction that they want to give to public debate on those matters. </p><p> </p><p>Based on the case study of the spring 2019 provincial elections in Alberta, Canada, I test the hypothesis that the frequency and radical features of messaging distributed by right-wing websites and chat groups in social media increase around election times, as an expression of a sustained and successful effort at influencing the vote along their ideological direction.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6q68m0sr Thu, 23 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Castro-Rea, Julián https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4db3z80k Dr. Lawrence Rosenthal, Founder and Chair of the Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies, offered convening remarks at the opening of the Inaugural Conference on Right-Wing Studies, April 25-27, 2019, University of Cailfornia, Berkeley. In his remarks, Rosenthal proposes the concept of the Nationalist International to explain the shared identity of right-wing actors today. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4db3z80k Thu, 23 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Rosenthal, Lawrence https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6pq3q678 Joseph Lowndes, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon, presented remarks as part of the opening keynote panel ("Perspectives on the Far-Right Insurgency: Latin America, Europe and the U.S.") of the Inaugural Conference on Right-Wing Studies, April 25-27, 2019.  In his remarks, Lowndes places the current situation in the U.S. in the context of the history of U.S. right-wing extremism, suggesting both the continuity and the novelty of where we are today. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6pq3q678 Tue, 7 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Lowndes, Joseph https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83w9c8n3 This article aims to investigate the narratives of the right-wing protestors that were present in June 2013 cycle of protest about their participation in it and some of the following interpretations and actions they had after that, especially regarding the pro-impeachment cycle, which started on the end of 2014. The aim is to have a closer look at the right-wing protestors in the 2013 cycle of protests to understand who they were, what were their practices and what principles guided them during that time. The, the paper is divided on three sections, besides its introduction and conclusion, as listed: (i) the presentation of June 2013 protests and its relations to contemporary forms of collective action; (ii) the analysis of the interviews made with 16 right-wing demonstrators in Belo Horizonte, systematizing their narratives in the concepts of actors, practices and grammars; (iii) the interviewees understandings of these protests in their lives and the impacts related to the pro-impeachment... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83w9c8n3 Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Birchal Domingues, Letícia https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99w0p17j <p>How deeply did sympathy for German fascism run in the British establishment in World War Two; and to what extent were pro-Hitler members of the British political and military ruling classes willing to betray their country to the Nazi regime and its Axis allies ? Drawing on primary source material contained in previously-classified MI5 and Government files, this paper adduces evidence that,  contrary to the conventional history of a country united in opposition to Hitler, right-wing British MPs, Peers and senior figures in the military clandestinely worked – individually and collectively – to hasten a German victory, and to supplant the elected British Government with a pro-Nazi puppet regime. The activities of this ‘Fifth Column’ included espionage, sabotage, unlawful private attempts to broker peace deals between Germany and Britain, sending military and political intelligence to Berlin, and plans to launch armed fascist coups d’état on London’s streets.</p><p> </p><p>The... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99w0p17j Mon, 15 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Tate, Tim https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8215z237 <p>The article[1] addresses the obstacles to the study of the relationships between Medical Pluralism and human mobility. We critically review the existing literature on Medical Pluralism and Mobility, showing how the classic studies of medical pluralism neglected three fundamental aspects that make up what we call non-situated Medical Pluralism: mobility, space, corporality. A critical review of these aspects in contemporary studies of medical pluralism led us to formulate a framework that seeks to integrate the main contributions of the studies of medical pluralism from Critical Medical Anthropology (Menéndez) with the Mobility Paradigm (Tarrius). This framework is presented, and the paper concludes by underlining its main contributions to the contemporary discussion in the field of Medical Pluralism and mobility.</p><p>[1] This is the translation of a paper to be published in <em>Si Somos Americanos, Revista de Estudios Transfronterizos</em>.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8215z237 Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Piñones Rivera, Carlos Liberona Concha, Nanette https://escholarship.org/uc/item/86w5k7th This paper is based on an ethnographic case study drawn from 16 months of fieldwork with families and young people going through cancer diagnosis and treatment in Oakland, California. The paper explores the intersection of cancer patienthood and racial formation, emphasizing the entanglement of biogenetic and sociogenetic processes. The paper shows how, as cancer-inflicted bodies move through the world, they are subjected to sociohistorically produced racial classifications that can be deployed in destructive, humiliating, and stress-inducing ways. Yet racialization can also occur in a more affirming, supportive, and resistant register—for example, through participation in community-based cancer advocacy efforts. The paper emphasizes three points of intersection between cancer patienthood and racial formation: 1) the racialization of oncologically transformed bodies; 2) the racialization of attempts to raise cancer awareness; and 3) the racialization of the expression of negative... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/86w5k7th Wed, 8 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Wright, Anthony https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7p85b6p5 A growing number of school district and community programs are seeking to remedy the achievement gap experienced by Latino boys through Latino male mentorship programs. Indicative of neoliberal shifts in Latinx education, these programs often involve public-private partnerships and assume a damaged Latino boy in need of technocratic and innovative solutions, rather than structural changes. Through an ethnographic case study of one Latino male mentorship program in an urban school district in California, this study explores the ways the administrative power of Latino male programming constructs the ideal Latino male subject through neoliberal values of individualism, excellence and earning potential, and pushes boys to be the future hetero-patriarchs of their community. Furthermore, based on in-depth interviews with the mentors and boys of the program, as well as one year of participant observations, this paper uncovers the ways these discourses are lived, embodied, and/or resisted... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7p85b6p5 Fri, 3 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Singh, Michael V. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0r07f1cq Heavy flooding and forced emergency evacuations of over 180,000 local residents in February 2017 drew national attention to California’s aging and structurally damaged Oroville Dam. As a centerpiece of California’s six-hundred-mile State Water Project, the Oroville Dam plays a significant role in water allocation throughout the state. While recent media coverage highlights how infrastructural damage and bureaucratic delays to the dam’s federal relicensing process have cast a shadow of uncertainty over the dam’s future, considerably less has been said about the controversies surrounding the Oroville Dam’s planning and construction, and how that history continues to shape and impact the present. A particularly neglected aspect is the dam’s continued role in disrupting the lifeways of California’s indigenous Konkow Maidu communities and displacing Konkow Maidu people from a significant portion of their ancestral territory. By engaging in a historical analysis of the Oroville Dam’s... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0r07f1cq Thu, 19 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Rhadigan, Ryan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6rc6m4rj This article analyses the migration motives of highly-educated young adults in Berlin and London who left Spain in the wake of the economic crisis of 2008. We base our analysis on in-depth interviews and the Schützean concept of motive, which allows us to differentiate between the motives behind leaving Spain and the motives behind coming to the city of destination. Our results highlight that the young adults’ decisions to leave Spain were not only motivated by the grave labour market situation itself, but also by its consequences, such as being forced to live with their parents. Regarding the motives for coming, we present a typology of four migration projects in which we argue that even those motives that were previously considered non-economic, such as partnership, are also profoundly related to the economic crisis. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6rc6m4rj Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Tewes, Oliver Heimann, Christiane https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7038t2gc Whether it is affordable housing, health insurance, or crime, how a social problem is associated with race and class contributes to how the general public and policymakers respond to it.  The media both informs and reinforces readers’ perceptions about what happens when social processes like gentrification take place, who is affected, and whether this type of change is positive or negative.  Media representations can thus influence public perception, policy framing, and local policies around urban development.  This paper uses articles published between 1990 and 2014 in two San Francisco newspapers to document how the process of gentrification is described.  Using text analysis and qualitative coding, I find that race and class pervade reporting on gentrification in San Francisco.  Gentrification was presented as a process by which the middle-class and whites move into predominantly black and low-income neighborhoods, even though the process of gentrification in San Francisco... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7038t2gc Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Rucks-Ahidiana, Zawadi https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8q265969 While the farm to school movement has been growing since the 1990s, it was officially incorporated into federal child nutrition programs through the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA) of 2010. In 2013, the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) received a $100K farm to school grant via the HHFKA to pilot “California Thursdays” (CT). CT was developed through a partnership between the Center for Ecoliteracy (CEL) and OUSD to increase students’ access to local, fresh, and healthy school meals procured entirely from California. As of January 2017, through the efforts of and leadership provided by CEL, CT has been implemented across 84 districts in California, which together serve over one-third of the one billion school meals distributed in the state each year. CT is an excellent demonstration of the agency of local level actors to respond with innovative action to implement federal policy. The network of CT schools is using farm to school food programs to address a primary goal... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8q265969 Tue, 28 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Serrano, Christyna https://escholarship.org/uc/item/14k984w4 Historically, the U.S. Department of Defense has attempted to advance military goals within the academy by guiding, gathering, shaping and suppressing knowledge production. However, with the ascendance of the Homeland Security state, relationships between the Armed Forces and higher education have become both less obvious and more familiar features of the academic landscape, as increasing research dollars go to develop weapons and cyber-security programs. This paper documents a less-known strategy designed to pave military inroads into contemporary college campuses: a military training program at Fort Knox, Kentucky, created to enlist civilian academic faculty and staff to become supporters of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program. The training, “Operation Bold Leader,” embeds academics in pseudo-warfare situations that serve as military training exercises. Pedagogies include inviting academic faculty and staff to rappel down 50-foot towers to a soundtrack of recorded... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/14k984w4 Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Moore, Ellen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9f07r0g1 While much of the literature on undocumented immigrants has focused on employment and education outcomes, we know little about the effects of their precarious legal status on interpersonal relationships. Based on interviews with 50 Korean and Mexican undocumented young adults, I find that, regardless of ethnoracial background, undocumented immigrants approach relationships cautiously, engaging in "security work" to protect themselves and their loved ones. Security work is a negotiated process of interpersonal interaction and status disclosure consisting of specific relational conditions to maximize affective and material security. First, shared immigrant background provides a baseline sense of comfort and safety. Respondents find symbolic belonging with those of immigrant descent, while exercising caution around anyone who is white. However, due to the stigma of undocumented status, both structural homophily and experiential homophily operate in determining disclosure patterns. Co-immigrant... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9f07r0g1 Mon, 6 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Cho, Esther Y https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1ww7s9zh Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork between 2013 and 2016, this paper investigates emerging forms of hacking and entrepreneurial development in Mexico. I show how research participants attend hackathons and hone their coding skills at co-working spaces in Mexico City and in Xalapa, as they hack away to build solidarity and find the “coding bliss,” the affective dimension one encounters when creating beautiful code. As hacker-entrepreneurs tease out the tensions between self-making and being-made, they fill an overarching neoliberal agenda with substance, meaning, and materiality. For young people in Mexico, “hacking” emerges as a way to make sense of their future livelihoods in a precarious state and economy, as a way to exist in a system where things just don’t seem to work, and as a way to let the “code work” intervene in narratives that have only delivered false hopes. As hackathons continue to proliferate across the globe, I conclude by examining how the underlying logics of... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1ww7s9zh Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Beltrán, Héctor https://escholarship.org/uc/item/08b4785c Individuals with serious mental disorder diagnoses (SMD) are grossly overrepresented in jails and prisons, returning to custody more often and more quickly than their non-diagnosed counterparts. This paper delineates two distinct approaches to understanding how these individuals enter carceral revolving doors, one which views them as <em>criminalized patients</em> and one which views them as <em>high risk/need offenders</em>, arguing each is limited in its ability to explain how individuals with SMD come to be carcerally involved and presents results from a qualitative pilot study (n=24) to narrow this gap. The study inductively builds from the experiences of carcerally-involved individuals with SMD, asking: what are the events and circumstances precipitating arrest and how do they contribute to carceral involvement? The paper takes a first step toward an alternative, participant-informed framework for understanding the overrepresentation of individuals with SMD. Results indicate... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/08b4785c Thu, 24 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Jacobs, Leah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3md8r7hh This paper examines the ways Native women domestic workers negotiated and challenged – in subtle and overt ways – the Bay Area Outing Program. First, I examine federal Indian policy that paved the way for “outing” and illuminate the connections between outing, Allotment and Indian boarding schools. To this end, I historicize both the national and local forms of outing while revealing the gendered, settler colonial effects of this imposing domestic institution. To provide a point of comparison, I consider other forms of domestic service performed at the time, including those found in Americanization programs of the early twentieth century. Second, I elucidate the contours of the Bay Area Outing Program, describing its official operation and process while highlighting the policing and surveillance of Native women in the program. I then analyze Native women’s resistance in fighting for commensurate wages and fighting Indian child removal. My final section, informed by early 20^th-... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3md8r7hh Mon, 19 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Keliiaa, Caitlin https://escholarship.org/uc/item/28f0m2jj Wastewater planning adversely impacts disadvantaged communities in many U.S. cities. Utilities use Triple Bottom Line (TBL) tools to try to achieve sustainability goals, but these plans often fall short in their pursuit of social justice. This paper shows the process, potential, and limitations of a TBL approach for environmental justice using the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission’s wastewater plan as a case study. It finds that ongoing wariness about how planners use the TBL is merited: use of the tool does not necessarily lead to social justice. Yet actors did use the ideal of sustainability as a strategic opportunity to pursue equity goals. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/28f0m2jj Tue, 28 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Solis, Miriam