Researchers increasingly use counterterrorism approaches to explain how right-wing groups mobilize as a growing social movement. I reveal the limits of security-oriented research for studying right-wing movements using a semi-ethnographic case study of the Canadian yellow vests. Dominant security narratives paint Canada’s yellow vests as foremost a criminogenic and violent white nationalist movement. My findings, however, suggest that these groups (1) fetishize law and order; and (2) attempt to maintain legitimacy by rejecting vigilantism and policing extreme messaging. Fixating on the ‘extremism’ and criminal risks of right-wing movements can distort analysis and exaggerate their distance from mainstream culture. My data include over 40 h of participant-observation at 20 right-wing rallies and 35 interviews with current leaders and members of on-the-ground nationalist groups.

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超越极端主义的思考：对右翼民族主义和极右翼社会运动反恐研究的批判

研究人员越来越多地使用反恐方法来解释右翼团体如何动员起来作为一个不断发展的社会运动。我使用加拿大黄色背心的半民族志案例研究揭示了以安全为导向的研究在研究右翼运动方面的局限性。占主导地位的安全叙述将加拿大的黄色背心描绘成最重要的犯罪和暴力白人民族主义运动。然而，我的发现表明，这些群体（1）迷恋法律和秩序；(2) 试图通过拒绝私刑和监管极端信息来维持合法性。关注右翼运动的“极端主义”和犯罪风险会扭曲分析并夸大他们与主流文化的距离。