This is not only about increasing the body of knowledge, but also about formulating recommendations for action that can help improve reality, and by extension, people’s lives. To be both scientifically accurate and socially relevant, science must be intersubjective. The claims and findings developed through scientific processes must be transparent and verifiable, independently of the individuals involved.
At IRex, research is focused on far-right extremism, its diverse ideologies, manifestations, practices, and consequences, as well as the societal contexts in which it is embedded. This work is grounded in methodological pluralism and conducted from inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives.
We understand research on far-right extremism as a form of political culture research. It aims to capture the relationship between culturally shaped systems of norms and values on the one hand, and institutional structures on the other. This includes the study of interpretive and symbolic cultures, not only individual and collective attitudes, but also symbolic representations.
Research at IRex seeks to understand the complexity and diversity of far-right extremism phenomena. It examines how far-right extremism is embedded in everyday life, not only within explicitly far-right milieus, but also across broader segments of society, in everyday cultural practices, and within protest cultures marked by anti-modernist and anti-democratic orientations and far-right ideologies.
Research Note: “Researching far right extremism — a transdisciplinary, lifeworld, and political culture perspective”
