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Far-right intersections with gender ideologies and extremist behaviour (national and global perspectives): ‘Our histories haunt us’
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2025-08-08
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Cronin, Joan
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Bristol University Press
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The far-right movement has evolved and intensified in recent times, with a concerning focus on the LGBTQIA+ population and transgender community. Protests, demonstrations, political violence and the widespread dispersal of online propaganda via various media outlets have been used to communicate far-right ideologies and extend exposure at national and global levels. Given growing global insecurities and increasing threats of war, as well as socio-political instability, far-right parties are engaging in exploitative measures, including ‘conspiracy theories’, to grow their presence and bolster political support more broadly. Also, increasing media coverage is being used to exacerbate economic and cultural insecurities, spread and intensify anti-LGBTQIA+ propaganda and intensify political violence, with probable implications for human rights, climate action and immigration policies, among others. Also, because of parliamentary membership, far-right parties, though openly opposed to and critical of European policies, are supported by European Union-based funding projects. This is a cause for increasing concern, given their ongoing expansion and blatant contempt of contemporary forms of global diversity, and current predictions forecast the spread of gender and identity driven violence. Thus, the future is one of growing concern.
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Far-right , Ireland , Online propaganda , Nationalism , Global , Rise and evolution , Gendered ideologies , Media representations and recruitment , Funding
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Cronin, J. (2025) 'Far-right intersections with gender ideologies and extremist behaviour (national and global perspectives): ‘Our histories haunt us’’, in Ahmed, Y. (ed.) The Far-Right in Ireland - Rise, Activities and International Links. Bristol: Bristol University Press, pp. 93-112. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529244847.ch004
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© 2025, Bristol University Press. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of a chapter published in The Far-Right in Ireland - Rise, Activities and International Links. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529244847.ch004