Epistemologies of ignorance in far right studies: the invisibilisation of racism and whiteness in times of populist hype

Abstract Research on the far right has been a booming field for decades now, with far-right parties generally being much more researched than their right, centre and left counterparts, even when they are marginal in terms of politics or electoral support. Yet, that is notorious its lively definitional debates tendency to evolve reinvent itself terminologically, it appeared unwilling engage concepts race, racism whiteness, very positioning political structures. Through mixed-methods discursive approach, this article analyses titles abstracts all articles published peer-reviewed journal sub-field studies between 2016 2021 ( n = 2543) highlight which primed obscured. This highlights prime euphemising such as ‘populism’ avoid those systemic structural forms oppression whiteness. thus aims both map make sense absence whiteness corpus by arguing symbol ongoing presence colourblind approaches lack reckoning scale pervasion contemporary societies.