Postdoctoral Fellow
Centre for Research on Extremism, University of Oslo, Norway
Contact
celestine.kunkeler@c-rex.uio.no
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Celestine Kunkeler – C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism (uio.no) Designation
Bio
Celestine S. Kunkeler is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Research on Extremism (C-REX), at the University of Oslo. Their current research project concerns violent transnational far-right networks in the Netherlands and the Nordic countries, and the particular role of military and paramilitary volunteers in interwar north-western Europe. Their PhD thesis was on myth-making practices and respectability in Swedish and Dutch fascism in the 1930s, published in 2021 as a monograph, Making Fascism in Sweden and the Netherlands: Myth-Creation and Respectability, 1931–40. They have published articles on various aspects of the Swedish and Dutch far right, including political culture, discourses, transnationalism, organisation, and military volunteers.
Research interests
- Political culture
- Transnational networks
- Fascism
- Military and paramilitary volunteers
- Anti-Bolshevism & counter-revolution