Confronting the Resurgent Right, livre ebook

Exposing the deep roots and new threats of Canada's regressive right

Over the past decade, we have witnessed the global mainstreaming of hate as false narratives and conspiracy theories about equity and inclusion, immigration, COVID-19 and vaccinations, and the “gay agenda” have become permissible talking points among right-wing politicians, pundits, and influencers.

In Confronting the Resurgent Right, scholars and activists take Canada’s 2022 “Freedom Convoy” as a recent manifestation of deep-rooted extremism. Providing intersectional commentary on the resurgence of the right, they demonstrate how its ideology permeates and shapes the structures of our society.

Balancing evidence-based research with careful analysis of the genesis and methods of the right, this volume models pathways of resistance and charges us to work together to expose and counter the regressive forces that spew hate.

Foreword, Niigaan Sinclair
Introduction, Miriam Edelson

1. Neo-Liberalism, Canadian Politics, and Intersectional Approaches

Chapter 1. Extreme to Mainstream: Normalizing Right-Wing Extremism, Barbara Perry

Chapter 2. The Roots of the Right: Why Combatting Settler Colonialism is Key to Ending Far-Right Extremism, Riley Yesno

Chapter 3. The Resurgence of the Right in Canada: The New, the Old, and the Ugly, Janet M. Conway

Chapter 4. The Right, Queer Communities, and Homonationalism, Tim McCaskell

Chapter 5. “We Exist”: Supporting Diasporic Black LGBTQI+ People in Canada in the Decade for People of African Descent (2015–2024), Wesley Crichlow

Chapter 6. Solidarity Matters: The Community Solidarity Project, John Cartwright

2. Organizing the Right: Social Protest and Community Activism

Chapter 7. Perilous Liberal Diversity Narratives of Mainstreaming the Right in “Raceless” Canada, Laura J. Kwak

Chapter 8. Gendered Islamophobia and Its Impact on Canadian Muslim Women, Nuzhat Jafri

Chapter 9. Antipoverty Movements and the Rise of the Right, John Clarke

Chapter 10. Learning from the Canadian Pro-Choice Movement, Judy Rebick

Chapter 11. The Alt-Right, Unions, and the Battle for Hearts and Minds of Workers, Bernard King

3. Organizing the Left: Social Protest and Community Activism

Chapter 12. Stronger than Hate: Countering the Convoy, Alex Silas

Chapter 13. A Near-Death Experience: How Neo-Liberalism Chocked the Canadian Women's Movement, Miriam Edelson and Jackie Neapole

Chapter 14. Building an Anti-facist Movement: Community Solidarity Ottawa and the Struggle Against Demobilization, Emily Quaile

4. Artifacts of the Right: Communication and Technology

Chapter 15. Canadian Skins: Modern Racist Skinhead Activists Adapting Recruitment, Peter Smith

Chapter 16. Creating Democratic Space in Contested Times: Reflections from the Ottawa People's Commission, Robert Fox

Chapter 17. "Honk Honk": The Freedom Convoy and Far-Right Memetic Convergence, Daniel Panneton

Chapter 18. The Hard Truth: To Win, Progressives Must Look in the Mirror, Not Just Blame the Right, Will Horter

Appendix
Contributors
Integrated Bibliography
Index