Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic by the Radical Right

Dr. Tamir Bar-On is a Professor-Researcher at the Tec de Monterrey in Querétaro, Mexico. He is a member of Mexico’s Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI), the National System for Researchers. He completed his PhD at McGill University. He is the author of Where Have All The Fascists Gone? (Ashgate 2007; Routledge, 2016); Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to modernity (Routledge, 2013); The World through Soccer: The Cultural Impact of a Global Sport (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014); and Beyond Soccer: International Relations and Politics as Seen through the Beautiful Game (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017).

Bàrbara Molas is a PhD candidate in History at York University (Toronto) and Head of Doctoral Fellows at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR). She studied World History (MA) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona and at the Freie Universität Berlin. Bàrbara has contributed to the study of transnational Francoism, neo-Francoism, and the history of far-right ideas on European and Canadian cultural integration. At York University, she studies far-right understandings of Canadian multiculturalism (1930s–1970s). She has published in Active History, the Globe and Mail, and Rantt Media, among others.

Michael Colborne is a Canadian journalist and researcher who focuses on the far right in Eastern Europe. He is a Policy and Practitioner Fellow with the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR) and has been part of the Bellingcat Monitoring Project team at the investigative journalism website Bellingcat, primarily researching Ukraine’s far right. Colborne’s work has appeared in Al Jazeera, Haaretz, The New Republic, Balkan Insight, and other publications.

Dr Eviane Leidig is a postdoctoral affiliate at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo, and an Associate Fellow at the Global Network on Extremism & Technology (GNET). Her research compares far-right online communities in India and North America. She is a founding member of the Steering Group at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR).