Various: Resisting Far-Right Politics in the Middle East and Europe (pre-order)

Edinburgh University Press, 2026, softcover, 280 pages, 15.6 x 23.3 cm

A comparative analysis of far-right politics across Europe and the Middle East with a focus on gender and sexuality

• Highlights anti-gender and anti-LGBTQ discourses as central to far-right politics across national and regional boundaries
• Provides an original comparative perspective and de-exceptionalises the Middle East in the study of far-right politics
• Showcases local, national and transnational resistance initiated by grassroots movements and civil society organisations, local activists, artists and socially committed academics

Resisting Far-Right Politics in the Middle East and Europe provides an empirically grounded exploration of different case studies on anti-LGBTQ and anti-gender mobilisations of the far-right in Europe and the Middle East. The contributions engage with multilayered histories of gender and sexuality politics that connect the Middle East and Europe, informed by histories of colonialism, racism, and border controls. A second, underlying objective of this volume is to contribute to decolonized knowledge productions by de-centering Europe and simultaneously de-exceptionalising the Middle East. The contributors commit to respecting the heterogeneity and complexity of these regions by focusing on grounded and life experiences. Ultimately, this volume illustrates a conceptualisation of the broad spectrum of far-right politics and queer feminist critiques as manifested in a wide array of contexts, including academia, politics and everyday lives