🎉 Congratulations to Christopher R. Fardan, PhD, who has won the inaugural Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (JMCE) Doctoral Thesis Prize.
Christopher's winning thesis explores extreme nationalism in contemporary Norway. He will be presenting his research at an online lecture for JMCE.
🗣Extreme Nationalism in Contemporary Norway: Ideologies, Mobilisation and Activism - Christopher R Fardan
📆 3-4pm BST, Weds 16 October 2024
🌐 Zoom Meeting ID : 927 8880 2209
Christopher's research starts from his concern about how the far right paralyses democratic engagement, targets minorities and inspire politically motivated violence and terrorism – even in a country like Norway where a generous welfare system based on a strong economy and relatively low levels of unemployment, crime and socioeconomic inequalities would be expected to limit the resonance of far-right rhetoric.
He set out to investigate what led people to engage in far right activities in Norway, using in-depth ethnographic interviews, finding no single “pathway” into such movements nor any single “profile” of activists that might predict who will join far-right groups. They are young and old, men and women. They live in gloomy basement flats and in extravagant villas, in the city and in the village. They have low and high educational attainments and they are driven by ideology, social and emotional communities, excitement and adrenaline.
The University of Manchester School of Social Sciences BA Social Sciences BASS Political Studies Association (UK) University of Manchester Politics Society Hilary Pilkington