Xavier Casals Meseguer (born 1963) is a Spanish historian specialized in the field of the

far-right Far-right politics, often termed right-wing extremism, encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by ultraconservatism, authoritarianism, ultranationalism, and nativism. This political spectrum situates itself on the far end of the ...

Biography

Born in 1963 in

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, he has authored several works about the Far right, featuring studies both about the Spanish

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and far right scene, as about an international comparative context. He has co-authored a biography of

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. He also has studied the phenomenon of

populism Populism is a essentially contested concept, contested concept used to refer to a variety of political stances that emphasize the idea of the "common people" and often position this group in opposition to a perceived elite. It is frequently a ...

Work

* ''Neonazis en España: de las audiciones wagnerianas a los skinheads (1966-1995)'' (1995). * ''La tentación neofascista en España'' (Plaza & Janés, 1998). * ''Ultrapatriotas: extrema derecha y nacionalismo de la guerra fría a la era de la globalización'' (Crítica, 2003). * ''Miguel Primo de Rivera'' (Ediciones de Barcelona, 2006), co-authored along

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. * ''Ultracatalunya. L'extrema dreta a Catalunya: de l'emergència del búnker al rebuig de les mesquites (1966-2006)'' (L'esfera dels llibres, 2006). * ''El pueblo contra el Parlamento. El nuevo populismo en España. 2009-2013'' (Pasado & Presente, 2013), prologue by Enric Ucelay-Da Cal. * ''La Transición española. El voto ignorado de las armas'' (Pasado & Presente, 2016)

References

Bibliography

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