This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR, we talk to Helen Young [Bluesky]. Helen is a Senior Research Fellow at Deakin University and her research interests include ‘medievalism, popular culture (especially fantasy, video-games and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien), histories of race and racism, and literature and cultures of extremism’. We spoke to Helen about her research and the uses to which the far right puts medieval histories and popular culture in fiction and gaming,
See also : Far‐Right Extremism and Digital Book Publishing, Helen Young and Geoff M. Boucher, GNET, September 23, 2024 | Authoritarian Politics and Conspiracy Fictions: The Case of QAnon, Helen Young and Geoff M. Boucher, Humanities, Vol.11, No.3, June 2022 | Popular fiction and white extremism: Neo-Nazi ideology and medievalist crime fiction, Helen Young and Stephanie Downes, Literature Compass, Vol.19, No.11, November 2022.
4.30pm, November 20, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus
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