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On the Digital Front-Line: Far-Right Memory Work in Baltic, Central, and East European Online Spaces
Uppsala University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9741-2145
Södertörn University, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Institute of Contemporary History.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7639-5374
2023 (English)Collection (editor) (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This anthology explores the memory work performed by Baltic, Central and East European far-right actors in the online space. Situated at the crossroads between memory studies, far-right studies and media studies, the volume’s seven chapters show how a wide range of far-right actors, from small movements to major parties, have exploited digital communication technologies in order to establish their plays with the past in the mainstream discourses of their respective national contexts. With focus on the online memory work of the far right in Austria, Belarus, Czechia, Lithuania, Romania, Sweden, and Ukraine, the anthology eviscerates the nexus between politics, media and memory in order to show how the spaces of flow of digital communication proper of the network society have empowered the memory work of marginal but dangerous societal actors. As the anthology’s chapters show, the online space has raised the visibility and success of organised intolerant groups and, consequently, it has magnified the societal impact of their memory work. Thanks to digital media, the memory work of the far right can compete on an equal level with state-endorsed memory politics. By meddling with the past and how it is perceived by civil societies on websites, blogs, and social media, the far right has succeeded in overcoming its marginality and in normalising its messages of intolerance on a continental scale.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Uppsala University: Department of History , 2023. , p. 197
Series
Opuscula Historica Upsaliensia, ISSN 0284-8783 ; 62
Keywords [en]
far right; memory studies; Baltic and East European studies; media studies
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History Media and Communication Studies
Research subject
Baltic and East European studies; Historical Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-52849Libris ID: m4h0lzxkkbxn7nkdISBN: 978-91-984509-7-2 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-52849DiVA, id: diva2:1818971
Part of project
Memory Politics in Far Right Europe: Celebrating Nazi Collaborationists in Post-1989 Belarus, Romania, Flanders and Denmark, The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies
Funder
The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, 40/2017Åke Wiberg Foundation, H20-0051Available from: 2023-12-12 Created: 2023-12-12 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved

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