Populist Publics is dedicated to not only doing highly relevant and, indeed, essential research into online hate but also to making that research available to educators through the creation of flexible, adaptable, and ready-to-use resources that teachers can easily incorporate into their pre-existing courses and lesson plans.

These resources, which include worksheets, slide shows, and various interactive and collaborative activities, take complex subjects and, through careful scaffolding and the application of pedagogical techniques that target all learning types, convey meaningful information and context to students about subjects that directly impact their daily lives. Already existing and forthcoming resource subjects include the use of Canadiana to construct exclusionary models of national identity, the co-option of Holocaust and World War II terms and imagery into anti-vaccine discourse, misogyny and the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard court case, Wexit and the radicalization of western discontent, and the far-right instrumentalization of symbols such as the Canadian Red Ensign.

  • Teacher Resources:

“Taking Action Against Transnational Hate: A Teacher’s Guide to Canadian and International Online Resources” (video on Youtube) and Teacher’s Guide (pdf) by Dr. David Y. Clement, Lecturer, School of Social Work and Carleton University. Funded by the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Lesson Plan 1 – Canadian Identity: The Use and Misuse of Nationalist Imagery Online  including Instructor slide deck by Aimee Brown, Ph.D. student and Dani Carron, MA student, Department of History, Carleton University, for use in Grade 10 HIST CHC2D – Canadian History Since World War I Units E: Canada, 1982 to the Present and CHV20 – Civics and Citizenship Units B: Civic Awareness.  

Lesson Plan 2 – Godwin’s Law and the Covid-19 Pandemic: an Exercise in Critical Thinking  prepared by Aimee Brown, Ph.D student, Department of History, Carleton University for use in Grade 10: CHC2D – Canadian History Since World War I Units: E. Canada, 1982 to the Present Focus: Continuity and Change and Grade 11: CHT3O – World History since 1900 Units E. A Globalizing World: Issues and Interactions since 1991. Focus: Identity, Citizenship, and Heritage

Lesson Plan 3 – The Canadian Red Ensign – a Caste Study in Symbolism  prepared by Aimee Brown, Ph.D student, Department of History, Carleton University for use in Grade 10: CHV2O Civics and Citizenship Units: 4.2 Politics and society: 1982–present and Grade 10: CHC2D Canadian History Since World War I Units: E. Canada, 1982 to the Present

Lesson Plan – 4 Images of Empire: a Case Study in Visual Literacy prepared by Aimee Brown, Ph.D student, Department of History, Carleton University. for use in Grade 10: CHC2D Canadian History Since World War I  Units: Canada, 1914 to 1929 and Grade 11:  CHT3O World History since 1900: Global and Regional Interactions Units: Empires and Nationalism, 1900–1919.

  • Other resources for teaching about hate, antisemitism, the Holocaust, fascism, authoritarianism, and neo-fascism:

CHES – Center for Holocaust Education and Scholarship Lesson Plans for Grade 6-8 Social Sciences and Holocaust

Hear Our Voices: Survivors Share Stories of Trauma and Hate © by Dr. Deidre Butler, Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies.

New Fascism Syllabus – Exploring the New Right Through Scholarship and Civic Engagement, co-curated by Dr. Jennifer Evans (Carleton U) and Dr. Brian J. Griffith (Fresno State)

The Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL), American University, Washington DC, directed by Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Where Monsters Are Born: Documenting a Fascist Revival in the Streets of Rome, co-curated by Dr. Brian J Griffith (Fresno State) and Dr. Amy King (University of Bristol, UK)

  • Webinar/Roundtable Series on Populism and Neo-Fascism Fall 2021

Populism and Neo-Fascism in Transnational Contexts. Sponsored by the Centre for European Studies, Carleton University with Canadian Heritage – Digital Citizen Contribution Program/Tables rondes du CES: « Provocation et défi: Le populisme et le néo-fascisme dans les contextes transnationaux

Panel 1 Transatlantic Neo-Fascism and Populism in Historical Perspective

https://carleton.ca/ces/cu-events/ces-online-panel-series-populism-and-neo-fascism-in-transnational-contexts-transatlantic-populism/

Panel 1 recording

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtezVXBq2eA

Panel 2 State and Vernacular Far Right Media Campaigns, Networks, and Movements

https://carleton.ca/ces/cu-events/ces-online-panel-series-populism-and-neo-fascism-in-transnational-contexts/

Panel 2 recording

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw8ywtIKuEc

Panel 3 Combatting Neo-Fascism and Populism in Everyday Practices

https://carleton.ca/ces/cu-events/ces-online-panel-series-populism-and-neo-fascism-in-transnational-contexts-3/

Panel 3 recording

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6pM0ZQ9wIo

All of these videos are housed at the CES YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBZ519NXCG2MSXWbBGs2TaA

Policy Briefs and Public Testimony

  • Brandon Rigato testimony – Parliamentary Committee on the rise of Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism (IMVE) in Canada

https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/SECU/Meetings

  • Danielle Carron, Policy Brief for Embassy of Germany in Canada. German Far-Right ‘Colony’ in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.