New Right/New Racism

Cultural Competency as New Racism: An Ontology of Forgetting

“…The concept of new racism gained prominence in Great Britain in the 1980s as scholars began theorizing the policies and practices of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government. New racism, according to Gordon and Klug (1985), is "essentially a theory of human nature and human instinct and most important among such instincts is the supposed desire of human beings to be among the company of their own kind" (p. 14). New racism is difficult to recognize as racism because racist discourses are interwoven with discourses about social cohesion, cultural preservation, and nationalism, which discriminate without actually using the word race (Barker, 1981;Miles & Brown, 2003;Smith, 1994;Yon, 2000), thus avoiding "older definitions of race that were so evidently tainted by Hitlerism" (Barker, 1981, p. 25).…”

Blurred Boundaries: Some Historical Precedents for Radical Right‐Wing Populism in Contemporary Britain

“…Moreover, the libertarian critiques of multiculturalism and anti-discrimination law put forward by the Monday Club found some expression in government policy after 1979, which endorsed "equality of opportunity" and encouraged migrants and racial minorities to embrace a "British way of life". 92 In common parlance, Thatcherism is all but synonymous with an economic doctrine, with the "Thatcher revolution" of the 1980s representing a drastic shift away from the Keynesian or "Middle Ground" principles promoted by British conservatives since the Second World War. The implementation of these policieswhich sought to shrink the public sector, quell the power of organized labour and reduce state intervention in the marketreflected the outcome of a generational struggle within the Conservative Party, wherein "wets" from the Heath era found themselves overpowered by a new generation of "dries" committed to free-market liberalism.…”

Ignorerade band. Politik och ofullständiga ontologier i forskning om Sverigedemokraterna

“…Det är därför ingen överraskning att vissa etnonationalister förespråkar åtgärder som liknar mångkulturalism -assimilationens motpol -som till exempel etableringen av shariazoner i Europa, fortsatt användning av slöja bland Europas muslimska kvinnor, olika etniska skolor, samt en separation av identitet och nationellt medborgarskap. Denna inställning växer snabbt inom den nationalistiska rörelsen i hela Europa och kallas av forskare för heterophilia (Taguieff 2001(Taguieff [1987), the new racism (Gordon & Klug 1986;Berbrier 1998;2000), differential racism (Balibar 2002) och multi-fascism (Fleischer 2014).…”