Plenary Panel - William Allchorn, Elzbieta Korolczuk, Michał Garapich and Rafal Soborski
"Key Paradoxes of the Global Far Right in an Era of Displacement and Social Change"
Description
Dr William Allchorn is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at Richmond, the American University in London. He is an expert on radical-right extremist social movements in the UK, Western Europe, and globally. He has most recently advised the UK, US, and Australian governments on their approaches to radical-right extremism. His first book, Anti-Islamic Protest in the UK: Policy Responses to the Far Right was published by Routledge in 2018. Recently, William’s research has shifted to studying the violent far-right threat landscape. As of August 2020, for example, he has started a new research project, testing violent far-right extremist counter-narratives in the UK, US, and Australia. His forthcoming book based on the project, Moving beyond Islamist Extremism - Assessing Counter Narrative Responses to the Global Far Right, was published by Ibidem (an imprint of Columbia University Press) in early 2022.
Elżbieta Korolczuk is an Associate Professor in sociology working at Södertörn University in Stockholm and American Studies Center, Warsaw University. Her research interests involve social movements, politics of reproduction as well as right-wing populism and mobilizations against “gender”.Most recent publications include a monograph Anti-gender Politics in the Populist Moment written with Agnieszka Graff (2021, Routledge), which received The Bronislaw Malinowski Award in the Social Sciences from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America in 2022. She is also a commentator and a long-time women’s and human rights activist.
Dr Michał P. Garapich, Senior Lecturer, at University of Roehampton is an anthropologist and author of an award-winning monograph using intimate ethnography (Dzieci Kazimerza 2019), and over 60 publications in English, Polish, French and German. He specialises in the issues of migration, transnationalism, memory, far-right radicalisation, resistance, homelessness, Polish Roma and intimate ethnography, and his fieldwork experience includes Britain, Poland, Ukraine and Peru.
Michał P. Garapich (0000-0003-0248-6780) (orcid.org)
Dr. Rafal Soborski is professor of international politics at Richmond, the American International University in London. He has taught and published extensively on globalization, ideology, social movements, and green politics. He is the author of two books: Ideology in a Global Age: Continuity and Change (Palgrave Macmillan 2013) and Ideology and the Future of Progressive Social Movements (Rowman and Littlefield 2018).
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