Cultures of Post-War British Fascism (Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138846848 ISBN 13: 9781138846845

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

Cultures of Post-War British Fascism

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Review:

"For years scholars denied the very existence of a fascist culture and largely ignored post-war developments of fascism as a political force. Cultures of Post-war British Fascism lies at the cutting edge of the new wave in fascist studies. It reveals the complex ideological, creative, and mythic contortions of British fascists who still find ways to assert the imminent or ultimate triumph of their race and creed over decadence and the new enemies of national rebirth despite the drastic shrinking of fascism’s political space since 1945."

Professor Roger Griffin, Oxford Brookes University.

"This exciting new collection of essays, by the leaders in the field of British fascist studies, offers the first and a very illuminating cultural perspective on the post-war extreme Right in Britain. It follows the major paradigm shift in fascist studies to a cultural interpretation of political belief systems. By exposing the way post-war fascists have engaged with, aped, and tried to destabilize both high and popular culture in Britain, this in-depth study will make us better equipped to challenge the appeal of fascism."

Dr Julie Gottlieb, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Sheffield

About the Author:

Nigel Copsey is Professor of Modern History at Teesside University. He is the author of Anti-Fascism in Britain (2000) and Contemporary British Fascism: The British National Party and the Quest for Legitimacy (2004; 2008). He is also co-editor of British Fascism, the Labour Movement and the State (2005); Varieties of Anti-Fascism: Britain in the Inter-War Period (2010); and British National Party: Contemporary Perspectives (2011). With Graham Macklin, he is series editor of Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right.

John E. Richardson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University. His research interests include structured social inequalities, British fascism, critical discourse studies and argumentation. His recent books include Analysing Fascist Discourse (co-edited with Wodak, 2013), Advances in Critical Discourse Studies (co-edited with Krzyżanowski, Machin, Wodak 2014) and Language and Journalism (2010). He is currently writing a book analysing the multimedia discourses of British fascism (Ibidem Verlag). He is Editor of the international journal Critical Discourse Studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1138846848
• ISBN 13: 9781138846845
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Copsey Nigel