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SODIS · Socially Distanced Solidarity: Far Right Recruitment and Enrolment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Период: 2021-09-06 → 2023-09-05
Финансиране от ЕС: 214 159 €
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Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Стратегиите за набиране на нови членове в крайнодесните организации се променят по време на кризи, например чрез използване на конспиративни теории при забрана на уличното събиране. Това помага да се разбере как глобалните събития и държавните реакции влияят върху политическия екстремизъм.

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Резултати накратко

Socially Distanced Solidarity: Far Right Recruitment and Enrolment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

There is a general assumption in the public debate, and among many scholars, that crises fuel political extremism. However, previous research suggests that the relationship between crisis and political extremism to large extent depends upon how elites respond to crisis. SODIS sought to examine how, and the extent to which, far-right extremist actors exploit a crisis when they can no longer use traditional recruitment strategies (such as being out in the streets or in local communities) and when their agenda in the public debate is largely monopolised by the government. The COVID-19 pandemic provided a natural experiment for examining how recruitment strategies and individual motives to far-right extremism shift in time of global crisis. The objectives of the SODIS project were to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic affected recruitment strategies and pathways to support for the far-right in various national contexts with differing pandemic responses. Specifically, SODIS sought to explore how far-right organisations have had to adapt recruitment strategies due to national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how individual-level motivations for joining far-right organisations have shifted during this time of crisis. To examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on far-right mobilisation, SODIS compared European countries that had various responses to the pandemic: Hungary, Italy, Spain, and Sweden. Upon conducting surveys and qualitative interviews with members of far-right movement parties in three of these countries (Hungary, Italy, Sweden), the SODIS project team quickly realised the importance of coonspiracy theories in understanding the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on far-right organisations and their members. Therefore, the SODIS project shifted to studying these conspiratorial views, offering a better understanding of how crisis can revitalise and repackage conspiracy theories, particularly of an antisemitic nature.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The questions at the centre of the project Socially Distanced Solidarity: Far Right Recruitment and Enrolment During the COVID-19 Pandemic (SODIS) are how far right organisations have adapted recruitment strategies in time of crisis, namely the Covid-19 pandemic, how successful these strategies have been, and how pathways to joining have shifted as a result of the pandemic. The Covid-19 pandemic provides an unprecedented opportunity to examine changes in collective action and political protest, providing a natural experiment for policy intended to tackle radicalism. Due to lockdowns and partial lockdowns across the world, organisations have had to cancel protest activities and other events at the centre of many recruitment strategies; the ongoing threat of Covid-19 well into 2021 means that organisations must alter their strategies. The subsequent change, or lack-there-of, in recruitment numbers can have implications for counter-radicalisation strategies moving forward. SODIS relies on a modern research design focusing on various perspectives of organisation recruiters and new organisation members, and different national contexts, while taking advantage of this exceptional time in history. A quantitative online survey will lend to a better understanding of motives and attitudes of organisations members in four national contexts and to gain a better understanding of motives for joining organisations, qualitative interviews will be conducted in each country. SODIS will elucidate drivers of far right mobilisation and pathways to radicalisation, contributing to scholarship on social movements, collective action, and radicalisation studies. It will provide insight for practitioners working on countering radicalism and recruitment into such organisations, engaging with the conversation of how liberal and illiberal democracies deal with right-wing extremism .

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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