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Constructing far-right nations

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The book analyses how far-right actors create and circulate digital geo-imaginaries that reframe nations, borders and power, showing how these narratives move transnationally and reshape contempora...
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Far-right nations examines how contemporary far-right actors construct and circulate digital geo-imaginaries that reconfigure understandings of nations, borders and global power. It analyses how ultranationalist and authoritarian movements use social media platforms, memes, influencers, alternative media and AI-generated content to frame some countries as idealised ethno-states and others as failed or threatening spaces. Drawing on case studies across Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia, the volume maps how these imaginaries move transnationally, shaping alliances, antagonisms and geopolitical tensions. By tracing the cultural geopolitics embedded in these digital ecosystems, it offers a critical account of how far-right narratives transform political subjectivities, reinforce exclusionary ideologies and unsettle democratic norms. The book provides a conceptual framework for understanding digital nationalism, reactionary world-building and the global circulation of far-right ideas.
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Price: £90.00
Pages: 272
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Global Studies of the Far Right
Publication Date: 15 December 2026
ISBN: 9781526189462
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, Far-right political ideologies and movements, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Political ideologies and movements, Comparative politics, Online safety and behaviour
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Samuel Merrill is Associate Professor in Digital and Cultural Sociology at Umeå University
Mathilda Åkerlund is a postdoctoral researcher in Media and Communication at the University of Gothenburg

Introduction: mapping the geo-imaginaries of the digital far right
Samuel Merrill and Mathilda Åkerlund

1 Between narratives of Schadenfreude, humiliation and redemption: far-right imaginaries of Denmark in Sweden and Sweden in Denmark
Ryan Switzer and Tina Askanius

2 Imaginaries of nations and nationalities: a social representation and rhetorical analysis of Finnish far-right and right-wing visual communication concerning other countries
Jari Martikainen and Eemeli Hakoköngäs

3 From ‘Slavic brother nations’ to ‘Asian invaders of fortress Europe’: ethnopluralism and Germanophone far-right discourses about Russia and Ukraine
Sabine Volk

4 Past imagination and speculative futures of the German nation in far-right activism: synthetic images between transnational and localised imaginaries
Sandra Kero, Christian Schwarzenegger and Manuel Menke

5 Halos over the Heptarchy: alt-histories and the digital weaponisation of medieval England
Ashton Kingdon

6 The global white right: metapolitics as a racial project
Bharath Ganesh and Jade Hutchinson

7 Heroes and monsters of the nation: imaginaries and memetic violence in the Latin American far right
Gabriel Bayarri Toscano

8 Social media, Afrophobia and the far right in South Africa: implications for the African continent
Vincent Chenzi

9 Hating the nearest neighbour: media influence on Japanese partisan hatred of South Korea
Naoto Higuchi and Mitsuru Matsutani

10 Sweden in the global mirror: distortions and reflections among Chinese, Indian and US right-wing populists
Ralph Schroeder

Concluding afterword: for a research agenda in far-right cultural geopolitics
Samuel Merrill