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Territorial Stigmatization and the Radical Right's Mobilization in Sweden
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Child and Youth Studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1922-7649
Number of Authors: 12025 (English)In: Right-Wing Movements in North America and Europe: Media, Identity, and Parties / [ed] Hank Johnston; Rory McVeigh; Ziad Munson, London: Routledge, 2025, p. 226-251Chapter in book (Refereed)
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Radical-right groups in Sweden are mobilizing against the purported threat to national order posed by the “badlands” of the nation. The term refers to neighborhoods known for their diversity, crime, and poverty. “Badlands” also provide the radical right with sites to criticize immigration and multiculturalism. Crucially, they also serve as a new kind of space that the far right uses to organize against what it believes to be the dual crises of the state's loss of the monopoly on violence and the “replacement” of Swedes by ethnic minorities. Through interviews with movement activists and ethnographic observations of private and public movement events, I show that the nostalgic “homelands and heartlands” frames, coupled with fears of the “badlands,” motivate far-right activists to participate in collective action. I find Sweden's far-right relies on the interaction between nativism and territorial stigmatization to signify these urban spaces with crime, Islam, and minoritization.

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London: Routledge, 2025. p. 226-251
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-249015DOI: 10.4324/9781003613930-10Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105019876138ISBN: 9781003613930 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-249015DiVA, id: diva2:2011621
Available from: 2025-11-05 Created: 2025-11-05 Last updated: 2025-11-05Bibliographically approved

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