Countering Right Wing Extremism in Education

Schooling in the Racist Badland

Christer Mattsson, Thomas Johansson, Jesper Andreasson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781032762142
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040108642
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Terrorism
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book investigates how schools deal with racism and extremism, focusing on everyday life, students, and the surrounding community and geographical area.

There is a lack of clarity on how racism and extremism should be managed in schools. Through extensive ethnographical data, interviews, and focus group interviews with students and school staff in mill towns and racist strongholds in Sweden, this book focuses on how racism and right-wing extremism are enacted, played out, and dealt with. It draws on theories of everyday and institutional racism as well as institutional ethnography. Formal and informal school strategies and pedagogical interventions intended to manage recurring problems in schools are discussed. The text offers a deeper insight into how racism and right-wing/neo-Nazism extremism are enacted and confronted in a rural Swedish school context and beyond.

This book will be of interest to students of Terrorism Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Security Studies.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The social and symbolic heritage of the community
• 3 Life at the countryside
• 4 Teacher's images of students and their home environments
• 5 Everyday harassments and pedagogical strategies
• 6 Non-white students in a sea of whiteness
• 7 The return of the repressed: The doxa
• 8 The presence of conspiracy theories and the notion of the deep state
• 9 Democracy and the fostering of democratic values in school
• 10 Conclusions and discussion
• Index