Table of Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Introduction: Rupture and Resentment in Twenty-First Century Europe

1. From Coal to Ukip: The Struggle Over Identity in Post-Industrial Doncaster

2. In Pursuit of Purity: Populism and The Politics of Whiteness

3. Disposable Strangers: Far Right Securitisation of Migration in Hungary

4. The Swedish Dystopia: Violent Imaginaries of The Radical Right

5. Human Waste in The Land of Abundance: Prejudice and Ambivalence Towards Itinerant Roma

6. ConclusionBibliography

Index

About the Author

Cathrine Thorleifsson is a researcher at the Centre for Research on Extremism at the University of Oslo, Norway. She earned a PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2012, and from 2014-2017 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the ERC-funded project "Overheating: the three crises of globalization." She is the author of Nationalism and the Politics of Fear in Israel: Race and Identity on the Border with Lebanon (2015). ​