Roger Griffin - Publications

This page refers only to downloadable publications by Roger Griffin, often in final draft form. For a complete list of publications please refer to his staff page.

Chapters in edited volumes:

'Staging the Nation's Rebirth,' in G. Berghaus (ed.) Fascism and Theatre (Berghahn, Oxford, 1996), pp. 11-29.

'British Fascism: The Ugly Duckling', in Michael Cronin (ed.) The Failure of British Fascism, (Macmillan, London, 1996), pp. 141-165.

'Last Rights?', Afterword to S. Ramet (ed.) The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe, (Penn State Press, Pennsylvania, 1999), pp. 297-321.

'To what extent was Mussolini's rise to power in 1922 a direct consequence of the impact of the First World War?', 'How far would you agree with the contention that Italian fascism `failed to transform Italy between 1925-1943?', in Peter Catterall (ed.), Essays in 20th Century World History, (Heinemann, London, 1999), pp. 26-33.

'Revolution from the right: fascism', in David Parker (ed.) Revolutions and the Revolutionary Tradition in the West 1560-1991 (Routledge, London, 2000), pp. 185-201.

'Plus ça change!: The fascist pedigree of the Nouvelle Droite', in Edward Arnold (ed.) The Development of the Radical Right in France 1890-1995 (Routledge, London, 2000), pp. 217-52.

'Interregnum or endgame? Radical Right Thought in the 'Post-fascist' Era', in Michael Freeden (ed.), Reassessing Political Ideologies (Routledge, London, 2001), pp. 116-131.

[1] [2]'"Racism" or "rebirth"? The case for granting German citizenship to the alien concept "generic fascism"', and 'Nazism's "Cleansing Hurricane" and the Metamorphosis of Fascist Studies', in W. Wippermann and W. Loh (eds) 'Faschismus' kontrovers (Lucius und Lucius, Paderborn, 2003), pp. 81-88; 179-190.

'The palingenetic core of fascist nationalism', in Alessandro Campi (ed.), Che cos'è il fascismo? Interpretazioni e prospettive di ricerche, Ideazione editrice, Roma, 2003, pp. 97-122.

'Withstanding the rush of time. The prescience of G. L. Mosse's anthropological approach to fascism', in Stanley Payne (ed.), What History Tells: George L. Mosse's Study of Modern Europe, (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, 2003).

'"This Fortress Built Against Infection" The BUF vision of Britain's theatrical and musical Renaissance', T. Linehan and J. Gottlieb (eds), Cultural Expressions of the Far Right (Macmillan, London, 2003)

Journal and Encyclopedia Articles:

'Identification and Integration: Conflicting Aspects of the Human Need for Self-transcendence within Ideological Communities', Journal for the Study of European Ideas, vol. 18, no. 1, (March 1993), pp. 11-23.

'Romantic Twilight or Post-modernist Dawn?', Oxford Art Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, 1995, pp. 103-107.

'The Sacred Synthesis: The Ideological Cohesion of Fascist Culture', Modern Italy, vol. 3, no. 1 (1998), pp. 5-23.

'GUD Reactions: the patterns of prejudice of a neo-fascist groupuscule, Patterns of Prejudice, vol. 33, no. 2 (April 1999), pp. 31-50.

'Fascism is more than reaction', Searchlight, vol. 27, no. 4 (Sept. 1999), pp. 24-6.

'Fascism', in Encarta 2000 Encyclopedia (Microsoft Publications CD ROM Encyclopedia, 2000) CD Set X05-04900

'Interregnum or endgame? Radical Right Thought in the "Post-fascist" Era', The Journal of Political Ideologies, vol. 5, no. 2, July 2000, pp. 163-78

'The Rebel with a Cause: Mussolini as a National Revolutionary 1909-1919', New Perspective, vol. 6, no. 1 (September 2000) pp. 31-5.

'Notes towards the definition of fascist culture: the prospects for synergy between Marxist and liberal heuristics', Renaissance and Modern Studies (vol. 42, Autumn 2001), pp. 95-115.

'Fascism' in Brenda Brasher (ed.) Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism in the Berkshire Reference Works series (Routledge, New York, 2001), pp. 171-8.

'The Primacy of Culture. The Current Growth (or Manufacture) of Consensus within Fascist Studies', The Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 37, no. 1 (2002), pp. 21-43.

'The palingenetic political community: rethinking the legitimation of totalitarian regimes in inter-war Europe', Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions Winter 2002, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 24-43.

Revised articles on 'fascism' and 'totalitarianism' for new edition (ed. William Outhwaite) The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought (Blackwell, Spring 2003), pp. 231-34; 697-99.

'From slime mould to rhizome: an introduction to the groupuscular right', Patterns of Prejudice, vol. 37, no. 1, (March 2003), pp. 27-50.

'"Shattering crystals": the role of "dream time" in extreme right-wing political violence', Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 15, No.1, Spring 2003.

'Fascism', in Bron Taylor and Jeffrey Kaplan (eds) The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature (Continuum International, London and New York, Spring 2003)

'Fascism' in The Encyclopedia of Community, (Berkshire Publishing, Oxford University Press, Sage, Dec 2003)

'Ecological Humanism and the Grounding of Utopia', New Humanist (November 2003)

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