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.

Hilary Pilkington is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester

Preface - Anoop Nayak
1. Transgressing the cordon sanitaire: understanding the populist radical right as a social movement
2. The contagion of stigma: the ethics and politics of research with the 'far right'
3. 'We're your famous EDL': navigating the representational battlefield
4. Doing the hokey-cokey: everyday trajectories of activism
5. 'Not racist, not violent, just no longer silent': aspirations to non-racism
6. Anti-Islam and anti-Muslim sentiments: who's 'othering' who?
7. 'Second-class citizens': reordering privilege and prejudice
8. 'One big family': emotion, affect and the meaning of activism
9. 'Loud and proud': piercing the politics of silencing
10. Conclusion: passion and politics
Appendices
Index