Bøker av Hilary Pilkington

This book is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League. Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race and racism, Islamophobia, social movements and the far right. -- .

In this study, the author applies the methods of cultural studies research to Russian youth, deconstructing social discourse and providing an alternative reading based on ethnographic fieldwork from Moscow.

Provides an examination of the phenomenon of skinheads, explaining its nature and its significance, and assessing how far Russian skinhead subculture is the 'lumpen' end of the extreme nationalist ideological spectrum. This book also provides a practical example of how to investigate youth subculture over an extended period.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, 25 million ethnic Russians have found themselves constituting a politically and culturally diplaced "Russian minority", scattered throughout the newly independent states. This text explores the impact that these "minorities" have had on post-Soviet Russia.