Canadian Institute for Far-Right Studies
Publications & Research Reports
Below you will find the research reports and other research publications by CIFRS and in partnership with other organizations. You will find brief summaries of research and links to publications
Created by St. Mary's University in partnership with CIFRS
This 2SLGBTQIA+ Support Guide is part of a series of outputs from the project “Countering Anti-2SLGBTQIA+ Misinformation in Rural Canada: Investigating How Older Canadians Interact with the Anti-SOGI Movement in Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia.” The project is a partnership between the Canadian Institute for Far-Right Studies and the Department of Political Science and Global Development Studies at Saint Mary’s University.
The guide provides accurate and up-to-date information about initiatives, programs, and services available in Nova Scotia and across Canada. It includes resources related to gender-affirming and inclusive healthcare, mental health, and counselling supports, as well as a substantial section on community and culture that highlights community-based organizations and groups. Additionally, it lists crisis-intervention services and other forms of assistance that promote the safety, inclusion, and overall well-being of 2SLGBTQIA+ persons.
By bringing these resources together in one place, this guide aims to promote awareness, reduce barriers to access, and support the 2SLGBTQIA+ community—not only in moments of crisis, but also by nurturing connection and promoting solidarity.
As critical scholars of the Far-Right in Canada our work exposes us to acts of violence (both direct and indirect) every day. We are all deeply affected. From different fields (Leisure Studies, Sociology, Anthropology) and different institutions, we have had remarkably similar experiences. As students, we received little or no support to offset the personal impacts of our research programs and had to seek out (or create) our own support networks. As untenured, precarious, and student members of academic research communities, we question whether institutions will stand behind us when we are (inevitably) threatened, or whether we too will need to become victims of violence on campus before we see supportive change. This paper’s narratives highlight voids of support, and it proposes possibilities for change to sustain critical social justice research.
Journal Article by Emelia Sandau (Junior Fellow) & Luc Cousineau (Co-director of Research) in Gender & Education
Teachers are deeply affected by the same cultural influences as
their students; directly and indirectly. This is certainly true in the
rise of masculinity influencer, extremist, and alleged sex trafficker Andrew Tate and the brands of individual and cultural misogyny he perpetuates. Using data collected from the /r/Teachers subreddit community of Reddit.com, we explored how users discussed the influences of a (re)surging misogyny on the jobs of teachers and in classrooms. Users express that students are actively parroting male supremacist rhetorics at school and that is serving to devalue women teachers and make classrooms less safe. Discussion is framed using Deleuzian and masculinities theories to provide deeper analysis and interpretation of the data. We suggest that there is cause for concern regarding the immediate impacts, as well as long-term consequences of masculinist and male supremacist ideologies on youth, teachers, and schools.