Constructing far-right nations

Samuel Merrill is Associate Professor in Digital and Cultural Sociology at Umeå UniversityMathilda Åkerlund is a postdoctoral researcher in Media and Communication at the University of Gothenburg

• Introduction: mapping the geo-imaginaries of the digital far rightSamuel Merrill and Mathilda Åkerlund1 Between narratives of Schadenfreude, humiliation and redemption: far-right imaginaries of Denmark in Sweden and Sweden in DenmarkRyan Switzer and Tina Askanius2 Imaginaries of nations and nationalities: a social representation and rhetorical analysis of Finnish far-right and right-wing visual communication concerning other countriesJari Martikainen and Eemeli Hakoköngäs3 From ‘Slavic brother nations’ to ‘Asian invaders of fortress Europe’: ethnopluralism and Germanophone far-right discourses about Russia and UkraineSabine Volk4 Past imagination and speculative futures of the German nation in far-right activism: synthetic images between transnational and localised imaginariesSandra Kero, Christian Schwarzenegger and Manuel Menke5 Halos over the Heptarchy: alt-histories and the digital weaponisation of medieval EnglandAshton Kingdon6 The global white right: metapolitics as a racial projectBharath Ganesh and Jade Hutchinson7 Heroes and monsters of the nation: imaginaries and memetic violence in the Latin American far rightGabriel Bayarri Toscano8 Social media, Afrophobia and the far right in South Africa: implications for the African continentVincent Chenzi9 Hating the nearest neighbour: media influence on Japanese partisan hatred of South KoreaNaoto Higuchi and Mitsuru Matsutani10 Sweden in the global mirror: distortions and reflections among Chinese, Indian and US right-wing populistsRalph SchroederConcluding afterword: for a research agenda in far-right cultural geopoliticsSamuel Merrill