A Discursive and Digital Terrain: Islamophobia and the International Far Right

The project examines the links between Islamophobia and right-wing thought. Right-wing groups around the world have displayed strong anti-Islam sentiment in recent years, which has been mostly commented by the press.

The project seeks to rethink critically this connection, as a global rather than a Western phenomena, by offering the first historical account of the ways Islamophobia became a tenet of far right discourse from the 1970s onwards. To do so, the fellow focuses on specific narratives that have originated in the Middle East, trace their transformation across borders and mediums, and show how right-wing intellectuals today have popularised them online.