Journal of Hate Studies

The Great Right North: Inside Far-Right Activism in Canada, by Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Aurélie Campana, and Samuel Tanner. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024. 288 pages. $29.95. ISBN 978-0228022848

Carmen Celestini, Waterloo UniversityFollow

Document Type

Review

Abstract

Carmen Celestini, a scholar of religion, reviews The Great Right North: Inside Far-Right Activism in Canada, co-authored by Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Aurélie Campana, and Samuel Tanner. The Great Right North traces the history of the far right in Canada, mapping hate groups by their relationships to political and social institutions and violence as well as their construction of otherness, thereby revealing how such groups are not insular but are in fact responsive to social phenomena. After defining groups as ultra right, racial right, xenophobic right, anti-state militias, freedom conspiracists, or nostalgic racists, The Great Right North identifies commonalities and differences among and between them. Special attention is to given to media, social media, and the policing of the far right.

Recommended Citation

Celestini, Carmen (2026) "The Great Right North: Inside Far-Right Activism in Canada, by Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Aurélie Campana, and Samuel Tanner. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024. 288 pages. $29.95. ISBN 978-0228022848," Journal of Hate Studies: Vol. 19: Iss. 1, Article 5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64749/2169-7442.1265
Available at: https://repository.gonzaga.edu/jhs/vol19/iss1/5