[{"_id":"project:5919","_type":"project","abstract":{"en":"This project’s purpose is two fold: (A) the production of critical knowledge about violent racism; and (B) a deepened understanding of actors’ motivations by analyzing affective dimensions of ultranationalism. Our purpose would be fulfilled by examining the correlations between organized and unorganized hate crimes via four specific aims: 1) mapping attacks against refugee housing, Romani camps, and different categories of minority Swedes, 2) analyses of discussions within and between racist and ultranationalist forums on the Internet and in social media, 3) a study of the perpetrators and their influences, 4) a qualitative study of racist and ultranationalist arguments, narratives, and visions. The project synergistically connects leading fascism researchers at Uppsala University with groundbreaking social media researchers at Umeå University, who will draw and build upon each other's expertise. The empirical material consists of police reports and investigations, interviews with ideologues and perpetrators, ethnographic fieldwork data, and spoken/written texts from blogs, Twitter, online news outlets, Facebook groups, discussion forums, and YouTube channels. Using multiple methods, we combine ethnographic and linguistic approaches such as Network Text Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. Violent racism threatens individual citizens and democratic society as a whole. However, the huge knowledge gaps in this area make this project both timely and necessary"},"project_id":"2016-04758_VR","identifier_short":"2016-04758","dates":{"start_date":"2016-11-01","end_date":"2018-12-31"},"organizations":[{"funding":[{"_id":2,"id":"202100-5208","sv":"Vetenskapsrådet","en":"Swedish Research Council"}]},{"coordinating":[{"_id":978,"id":"202100-2932","sv":"Uppsala universitet","en":"Uppsala University"}]}],"people":[{"project_leaders":[{"_id":"authority-person:13508","orcid":"0000-0003-2491-1995","name":"Gardell, Mattias","role":"principal_investigator","affiliation":[{"_id":978,"id":"202100-2932","sv":"Uppsala universitet","en":"Uppsala University"}]}]},{"other_personnel":[]}],"tags":[{"_id":11767,"id":"50901","sv":"Tvärvetenskapliga studier","en":"Social Sciences Interdisciplinary"},{"_id":11803,"id":"60599","sv":"Övrig annan humaniora","en":"Other Humanities not elsewhere specified"}],"titles":{"sv":"Arga vita män? En studie av våldsbejakande rasism, korrelationen mellan organiserad och oorganiserad våldsbrottslighet och ultranationalismens affektiva dimensioner","en":"Angry white men? A study of violent racism, correlations between organized and unorganized hate crime and the affective dimensions of ultranationalism"},"total_funding":"4284000","type_of_awards":{"sv":"Projektbidrag","en":"Project grant"},"publications":[{"id":"diva2:1820179","type":"chapter","issued":{"date-parts":[[2024]]},"title":"'The Radicalisation of Western Man' : The Great Replacement, White Radical Nationalism, and Lone Wolf Violence","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Gardell","given":"Mattias","ORCID":"0000-0003-2491-1995","localId":"mattgard","affiliation":[{"id":"877450","name":"Uppsala universitet, Centrum för mångvetenskaplig forskning om rasism (CFR)"}]}],"abstract":"This chapter, analyzes the actions and writings of transnational far-right terrorist actors like Anders Breivik and Brenton Tarrant, examining the influence of key ideas like the Great Replacement theory and tracing their genealogy in a much longer history of radical nationalist thought. Having followed the intertextual references in this earlier historic white nationalist literature, the article arrives at the observation that modern-day white extremist manifestos rarely contain anything new, but rather reproduce ideas and perspectives that have been around for a long time: a weaponized white entitlement to land, resources, and privileges; the idea of a fundamental connection between white people and the territory claimed to be exclusively theirs; blood and soil, race, and space; the colonial venture, and the “right” to white racial lebensraum at the expense of other kinds of people; the project of “reclaiming” Europe for white (Christian) folks by forcibly excluding the nonwhite presence; the crusades and the Reconquista; claims of being the rightful manager of the racialized classificatory order; the demographic panic; and the fear of losing power, control, hegemony, and majority advantage; and, of course, the dystopic projections of racial suicide, racial genocide, and racial replacement.","ISBN":"9780197771266","DOI":"10.1093/oso/9780197771266.001.0001","ScopusId":"2-s2.0-85200703604","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-518154","page":"301-322","container-title":"Radicalisation : A Global and Comparative Perspective","keyword":"Radicalization; Fascism; Violence; Lone Wolf; White Radical Nationalism","publisher-place":"London","publisher":"Oxford University Press","note":"[ed] Akil N. Awand; James R. Lewis","published":[{"raw":"2023-12-16T16:56:00.000+01:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2023-12-16T16:56:55.399+01:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-08-28T16:32:34.647+02:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-518154"},{"id":"diva2:1560655","type":"book","issued":{"date-parts":[[2021]]},"title":"Lone Wolf Race Warriors and White Genocide","language":"eng","author":[{"family":"Gardell","given":"Mattias","ORCID":"0000-0003-2491-1995","localId":"mattgard","affiliation":[{"id":"877450","name":"Uppsala universitet, Centrum för mångvetenskaplig forskning om rasism (CFR)"}]}],"abstract":"When Brenton Tarrant live-streamed his massacre of 51 Muslims in Christchurch, NZ, in March 2019, he was but one in a series of lone-acting white men committing violent crime to further the radical white nationalist aim to save the white race from extinction and establish a white ethnostate. From where did white nationalists get the notion of an ongoing white genocide? Why should “resistance” against a perceived invasion of “white” territory be launched by individual “lone wolves” massacring non-combatants they had no prior relation to? How could slaughtering children be construed as a heroic act that a perpetrator wants to broadcast to the world? Based on a collection of interviews with lone wolves, their victims, and supporters, and a close reading of lone wolf, fascist, and radical nationalist material and communication, this Element provides answers to these and adjacent questions of importance.","ISBN":"978-1-108-71113-5","DOI":"10.1017/9781108609760","NBN":"urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-444164","number-of-pages":"120","keyword":"Lone wolf; fascism; political violence; radical nationalism; violent racism","publisher-place":"Cambridge","publisher":"Cambridge University Press","published":[{"raw":"2021-06-04T12:11:00.000+02:00"}],"created":[{"raw":"2021-06-04T12:11:55.833+02:00"}],"updated":[{"raw":"2025-02-20T10:53:34.888+01:00"}],"URL":"https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-444164"}],"links":[{"type":"pid","link":"https://su.diva-portal.org/smash/api/project/swecris/project:5919"}]}]