{"id":53765,"date":"2025-11-18T19:31:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=53765"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:39:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T05:39:27","slug":"yeah-nah-pasaran-272-w-helen-young-on-history-myth-popular-culture-and-the-far-right-november-20-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=53765","title":{"rendered":"Yeah Nah Pasaran #272 w Helen Young on history, myth, popular culture and the far right : November 20, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran!<\/a><\/em> on 3CR, we talk to Helen Young<\/a> [Bluesky<\/a>]. 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, <\/p>\n

See also<\/em> : Far\u2010Right Extremism and Digital Book Publishing<\/a>, Helen Young and Geoff M. Boucher, GNET, September 23, 2024 | Authoritarian Politics and Conspiracy Fictions: The Case of QAnon<\/a>, 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<\/a>, Helen Young and Stephanie Downes, Literature Compass, Vol.19, No.11, November 2022.<\/p>\n

4.30pm, November 20, 2025 \/\/\/ 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 This episode will be available as a podcast on Apple<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> and other platforms after broadcast.
\n\u2022 We also have a Facebook page<\/a> for the show, which you\u2019re invited to \u2018Like\u2019 and to \u2018Follow\u2019, although because the anti-social platform is bloody awful, chances are you’ll never notice it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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