Bodies, Boundaries, and Exclusion: Mapping the Intersectional Politics of the Contemporary Far Right

Abstract

This panel examines how contemporary far-right actors mobilise embodied politics and intersecting forms of exclusion to construct boundaries of belonging and advance reactionary agendas across diverse geographic contexts. Moving beyond single-axis analyses of far-right ideology, papers explore how gender, disability, class, race, and other identity categories operate as interlocking systems of domination within far-right discourse and practice. The panel brings together research on Europe, Latin America, and digital spaces to reveal how the far right deploys the body - both individual and collective - as a site of political ordering and exclusion. Collectively, papers demonstrate that far-right politics cannot be understood through isolated analytical categories. Through the use of a wide range of methodologies, the panel reveals how far-right actors strategically deploy intersecting forms of exclusion - racism, sexism, ableism, classism - to discipline bodies, define outgroups, and normalise reactionary politics. The papers trace these dynamics across institutional and extra-institutional spaces, from parliamentary manifestos to online forums, from street mobilisations to social media sites. This panel advances theoretical debates on intersectionality, everyday extremism, and the normalisation of the far right, while highlighting understudied dimensions of far-right politics including ableism, body fascism, and gendered digital publics. Together, these contributions offer crucial insights for understanding how the contemporary far right constructs and enforces hierarchical visions of social order.

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