Retrat de Xavier Casals

Professor in the Blanquerna School of Communication

Doctor in Contemporary History and Professor in the Blanquerna School of Communication at Ramon Llull University. He has focused most of his studies on the evolution of the far right, populism and political violence.

He is the author, among other works, of Neonazis en España. De las audiciones wagnerianas a los skinheads (1966-1995), (Hojas Nuevas, 1995); La tentación neofascista en España, (Plaza & Janés, 1998); Ultrapatriotas. Extrema derecha y nacionalismo de la guerra fría a la era de la globalización, (Crítica, 2003); Ultracatalunya. L’extrema dreta a Catalunya: de l’emergència del “búnker” al rebuig de les mesquites (1966-2006), (La esfera de los libros, 2007); El pueblo contra el parlamento. El nuevo populismo en España, 1989-2013, (Pasado y presente, 2013) and La Transición española. El voto ignorado de las armas (Pasado y presente, 2016).

Articles by Xavier Casals

Il·lustració © Raquel Marín
Open city. The challenges of the futureHow can Vox be defined? Five pointers for its interpretation

Vox’s electoral ups and downs indicate that its base is not as solid as it seems. This party, based on a vertical structure, limited ideological theorisation and high social network...

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