Eviane Cheng Leidig

Jan 7, 2025 | icct.nl | Eviane Cheng Leidig

On Wednesday, January 1st, the American radio NPR published a live podcast discussing the role played by 'momfluencers' in the reinforcement of hate messages aimed at creating an idealistic society. The radio interviewed Eviane Leidig, Associate Fellow and former Research Fellow in the Current and Emerging Threats programme at the ICCT. 'What unites these women is that they have very clear roles in terms of what they see as traditional gender divisions.

Jan 18, 2024 | theconversation.com | Avery Anapol |Eviane Cheng Leidig

When you think about the far right, you probably picture groups of young, white men carrying images of swastikas or torches like those seen at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. But the face of the far right is changing, at least on social media. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we hear about new research into a cohort of women influencers peddling far-right ideology on mainstream platforms such as Instagram and YouTube.

Nov 3, 2023 | gnet-research.org | Jordan Chapman |Eviane Cheng Leidig

Within the study of terrorism and extremism, women remain an overlooked subject group, especially when considering women as perpetrators or facilitators of violence. Early research limited to public portrayals of the involvement of women in terrorism and violent extremism showed as being victims rather than active participants.

Aug 21, 2023 | dialnet.unirioja.es | Eviane Cheng Leidig

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP): The overlooked populist radical right partyEviane Leidig[1];Cas Mudde[2][1]Tilburg University[2]University of GeorgiaLocalización: Journal of language and politics, ISSN 1569-2159, Vol. 22, Nº. 3, 2023, págs. 360-377Idioma: inglésEnlacesTexto completoResumenThis article situates the largest political party in the world, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India, within the literature on the populist radical right.

Aug 1, 2023 | pt.icct.nl | Anna Kruglova |Merlina Herbach |Eviane Cheng Leidig |Menso Hartgers

Elisa Orofino and William Allchorn (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Non-Violent Extremism: Groups, Perspectives and New Debates (New York, NY: Routledge, 2023), 524pp., US$ 225.00 [Hardcover], ISBN: 978-0-3674-7008-1. This conceptually innovative, comprehensive, and detailed Handbook provides one of the first coverages of what the editors term “non-violent extremism” across a wide spectrum political, religious, and socio-economic ideologies around the world.