Professor Roger Griffin

Roger Griffin

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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Research activities

Details of my research

Current interests include the social and psychological dynamics of political violence, and in particular fascism's relationship to modernity and modernism. This has resulted in a major book to be published in the Spring of 2007,  Modernism and Fascism: The Sense of a New Beginning under Mussolini and Hitler. This will focus particularly on fascism's quest in the inter-war period to regenerate the collective experience of history not just through ultra-nationalist forms of ritual politics but through visionary schemes of social engineering, town planning, demographic and (in the case of Nazism) eugenic planning designed to give birth to a New Man and New Woman.

Recent publications

  • Griffin, R . ( 2011 ). Alien Influence: Contextualising the 'Modernised' BNP. . Routledge () View more details »
  • Griffin, R . ( 2010 ). Modernismo y fascismo: la sensaci&#243;n de comienzo bajo Mussolini y Hitler. . Akal () View more details »
  • Griffin, R . ( 2008 ). Exploding the continuum of history: A non-Marxist's Marxist model of fascism's revolutionary dynamics. . Palgarve Macmillan () View more details »
  • Griffin, R and Feldman, M(ed) . ( 2008 ). A fascist century. Essays by Roger Griffin. . Palgrave Macmillan () View more details »
  • Griffin, R . ( 2007 ). Modernism and fascism: the sense of a beginning under Mussolini and Hitler . . Palgrave Macmillan () View more details »
  • Griffin, R . ( 1993 ). The nature of fascism. . Routledge () View more details »

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