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: Received: 16 November 2023 / Approved: 16 November 2023 / Online: 16 November 2023 (07:51:35 CET)
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Allen, C. Another Ideological Turn? Investigating the Re-Emergence of Race Among the British Radical Right. Preprints2023, 2023111056. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1056.v1
Allen, C. Another Ideological Turn? Investigating the Re-Emergence of Race Among the British Radical Right. Preprints 2023, 2023111056. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1056.v1
Allen, C. Another Ideological Turn? Investigating the Re-Emergence of Race Among the British Radical Right. Preprints2023, 2023111056. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1056.v1
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Allen, C. (2023). Another Ideological Turn? Investigating the Re-Emergence of Race Among the British Radical Right. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1056.v1
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Allen, C. 2023 "Another Ideological Turn? Investigating the Re-Emergence of Race Among the British Radical Right" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202311.1056.v1
Abstract
This article investigates the unexpected re-emergence of race in both the rhetoric and activities of the British radical-right. In doing so it seeks to better understand the reasons why race has re-emerged, how race has been contemporarily deployed by the radical-right, and the extent to which the re-emergence of race will force the radical right’s recent ideological focus on religion – more specifically, the religion of Islam and Muslims as adherents – begin to retreat. It does this first by setting out the methods and approaches used throughout. From here, necessary and appropriate context is provided about the British radical-right generally and the decades old ideological turn more specifically. Next, the circumstances and reasons for the re-emergence of race are critically engaged: focusing on the immediate aftermath of 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests as also the wider socio-political landscape of contemporary Britain. Taking into account both established and newly formed groups and movements from within the British radical right, the role and function played by race is considered next. As part of this, an in-depth analysis of the role and function of race in the rhetoric and activities of Patriotic Alternative is included. In conclusion, this article reflects on a number of arguments about why the re-emergence of race among the British radical-right is - albeit to varying degrees - a cause for concern.
Keywords
radical right; patriotic alternative; race; black lives matter; nationalism
Subject
Social Sciences, Sociology
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
