In 2015, anthropologist Cathrine Thorleifsson traveled to England and Hungary to conduct fieldwork in order to study why so many of the people living there voted for right wing populist and radical parties. In her book, titled “National Responses to Crises in Europe,” (2019) she shows how local influences in the extremist circles she visited were taking advantage of global crises in order to promote polarizing identity policies and old hatreds.
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Source: Phys.org