This paper develops an intersectional analytical framework to examine the radical right in Europe, inquiring into the form and function of white masculinity as shaping the identity, ideology, and power relations of the party family and its supporters. Dominant subjectivity, status threat, and appeals to victimhood thread these analytical levels together, linking the micro-functional behaviours and attitudes of men to the macro-sociological concepts of hegemonic masculinity and capitalist transformation. Building on the concept of ‘superordinate intersectionality’, this paper interrogates several overstretched concepts prevalent in radical right scholarship. It critiques the discipline’s persistent blind spots, particularly its failure to adequately theorise race and gender. By foregrounding white masculinity in its conceptual and analytical endeavour, this paper offers new frames for understanding the radical right.
