Pasieka's ethnography of youth movements illuminates community-building strategies and practices of far-right organizations, primarily in Italy and Poland. Based on fieldwork the author conducted between 2017–2019, Living Right employs anthropological tools to explore extreme nationalist ideologies, whose proponents espouse communitarian identities achieved through transnational cooperation. Pasieka's scholarly approach mediates “neutral,” distanced perspectives and “militant” ones, which denounce the subject(s) (xxiii). Aware of skepticism about research into far-right groups, she conveys a sense of precarity and risk as she tells the stories of everyday life in the Lealtà Azione (Loyalty Action) in Italy; and the Polish Obóz Narodowo-Radykalny (National Radical Camp).

The book is divided into three sections that delve into the dominant morality, politics, and militancy far-right activists advocate. She focuses on the activism of approximately 25 people within affiliated associations. Pasieka incorporates self-aware reflections about her practice. To gain access, she establishes relationships of trust with certain actors, who extend her network. Her aim is to understand bonds of friendship and respect among members and the ways they foster self-actualization and personal transformation in contrast to

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