Paul Jackson

Paul Jackson is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Northampton, and a research specialist in the cultural dynamics of contemporary British, American and European extreme right groups. His most recent book, Colin Jordan and Britain’s neo-Nazi movement: Hitler’s Echo (Bloomsbury, 2017) explores the development of British radical right extremism from the 1940s to the 2000s.

Totalitarianism in the twentieth century and beyond

A key under-studied area for analysis is how contemporary extreme right movements can also be seen as totalitarian. Indeed, it is not difficult to find examples of such.

By Paul Jackson

/ 27 Aug 2019

Totalitarianism in the twentieth century and beyond

Political religions and fascism

The creation of new symbols and rituals to evoke belief in a higher cause are central to the concept, ‘political religion’, prevalent in fascism studies for at least two decades.

By Paul Jackson

/ 29 Jul 2019

Cultic milieus and the extreme right

As a concept for framing how elements of the extreme right give their activism a sense of profound significance, the cultic remains useful and relevant.

By Paul Jackson

/ 9 May 2019