Dr Kasper Braskén

Profile

Kasper Braskén completed his PhD in general history in 2014 at Abo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. His dissertation was on transnational solidarity and international communism in Weimar Germany. It was published in the Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements series in 2015. As a postdoctoral researcher Braskén has specialised in the transnational and global history of anti-fascism. He has been visiting researcher at Freie Universität Berlin (2014–2015 & 2017–2019) and Royal Holloway University of London (2016). During his ongoing Academy Research Fellow project, Braskén will also function as visiting researcher in Cape Town, New York City, Chicago and Berlin.

Research

Research Interests:

• Modern transnational and global history
• Left internationalism
• Anti-fascism and anti-racism
• Urban history

Examples of research funding:

Funding: Mention any grants, contracts, awards you have received and the research it supported    “Locating Global Protest against the Extreme Right: Anti-Fascism, Anti-Racism and Internationalism in Multiethnic Metropoles” funded by the Research Council of Finland (Project number 355478; 2023–2027, University of Helsinki)

Publications

Books

Kasper Braskén, The International Workers' Relief, Communism, and Transnational Solidarity: Willi Münzenberg in Weimar Germany (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 320pp. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137546869

Edited volumes & Special issues

Anders Ahlbäck & Kasper Braskén (eds.) Anti-Fascism and Ethnic Minorities: History and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe (London: Routledge, 2024)

Kasper Braskén & Elke Weesjes (eds.), Special issue: Anti-fascist resistance fighters, intersectionality and memory, Twentieth Century Communism, 25 (2023).

Jonathan Hyslop, Kasper Braskén & Neil Roos (eds.), Special issue: Anti-Fascism in Southern Africa, South African Historical Journal, vol. 74, no. 1 (2022)

Kasper Braskén, Nigel Copsey, & David Featherstone (eds.) Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective: Transnational Networks, Exile Communities, and Radical Internationalism (London: Routledge, 2021), 316pp.

Kasper Braskén, Johan Lundin, & Nigel Copsey (eds.), Anti-Fascism in the Nordic Countries: New Perspectives, Comparisons and Transnational Connections (London: Routledge, 2019); 290pp.

Bernhard H. Bayerlein, Kasper Braskén & Uwe Sonnenberg (eds.), Globale Räume für radikale transnationale Solidarität. Beiträge zum Ersten Internationalen Willi-Münzenberg-Kongress 2015 in Berlin (Berlin: International Willi Münzenberg Forum, 2018); 576pp.

Articles & Book Chapter

Kasper Braskén & Anders Ahlbäck, ‘Divided against themselves? Ethnic minorities, nationalism, and fractured anti-fascist identities’, in Anders Ahlbäck & Kasper Braskén (eds.) Anti-Fascism and Ethnic Minorities: History and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe (London: Routledge, 2024).

Kasper Braskén, Anders Ahlbäck, Matias Kaihovirta and Ylva Perera, ‘The cohesive and dividing power of anti-fascism: Language and class among Finland-Swedes in the 1920s–1940s’, in Anders Ahlbäck & Kasper Braskén (eds.) Anti-Fascism and Ethnic Minorities: History and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe (London: Routledge, 2024)

Kasper Braskén, ‘A Dire Warning to All Ethnic Minorities in Europe? Fascist Repression in South Tyrol and the Formation of Swedish-Speaking Anti-fascism in Finland’, in Jože Pirjevec, Egon Pelikan, Sabrina P. Ramet (eds.), Anti-Fascism in European History. From the 1920s to Today (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2023).

Kasper Braskén, ‘International Communism and Transnational Solidarity in the Context of the First Russian Art Exhibition’, in Isabel Wünsche & Miriam Leimer (eds.) 100 Years On: Revisiting the First Russian Art Exhibition of 1922 (Wien: Böhlau, 2022), 45–53.

Kasper Braskén, ‘South African Anti-Fascism and the Nazi Foreign Office: Antisemitism, Anti-communism and the Surveillance of the Third Reich’s International Enemies’, South African Historical Journal, vol 74, 1 (2022), p. 30–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2022.2027005

Jonathan Hyslop, Kasper Braskén & Neil Roos, ‘Political and Intellectual Lineages of Southern African Anti-Fascism’, South African Historical Journal, vol. 74, 1 (2022), p. 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2022.2077418

Kasper Braskén, ‘“Aid the Victims of German Fascism!” Transatlantic Networks and the Rise of Anti-Nazism in the USA, 1933–1935’, in Kasper Braskén, Nigel Copsey and David Featherstone (eds.) Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective. Transnational Networks, Exile Communities, and Radical Internationalism (London: Routledge, 2021), p. 197–217. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429058356

Kasper Braskén, ‘“Make Scandinavia a Bulwark against Fascism!” Hitler’s Seizure of Power and the Transnational Anti-fascist Movement in the Nordic Countries’, in Kasper Braskén, Nigel Copsey & David Featherstone (eds.), Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective. Transnational Networks, Exile Communities, and Radical Internationalism (London: Routledge, 2021), p. 96–114. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429058356

Kasper Braskén, David Featherstone & Nigel Copsey, ‘Introduction: Towards a Global History of Anti-Fascism’, in Kasper Braskén, Nigel Copsey & David Featherstone (eds.) Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective. Transnational Networks, Exile Communities, and Radical Internationalism (London: Routledge, 2021), p. 1–20. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429058356

Kasper Braskén,‘“Whether Black or White–United in the Fight!” Connecting the Resistance against Colonialism, Racism, and Fascism in the European Metropoles, 1926–1936,’ Twentieth Century Communism: A Journal of International History, No. 18 (2020), p. 126–149. https://doi.org/10.3898/175864320829334834

Kasper Braskén & Johan Lundin, ’Introduction,’ in Kasper Braskén, Nigel Copsey & Johan Lundin (eds.) Anti-Fascism in the Nordic Countries. New Perspectives, Comparisons and Transnational Connections (London: Routledge, 2019) pp. 1–17. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315171210 

Kasper Braskén, ‘Communist Anti-Fascism and Transnational Fascism: Comparisons, Transfers, Entanglements’, Arnd Bauerkämper & Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe (eds.), Fascism without Borders: Transnational Connections and Cooperation between Movements and Regimes in Europe from 1918 to 1945 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2017), p. 288–311.

Bernhard H. Bayerlein, Kasper Braskén, & Holger Weiss, ‘Transnational and Global Perspectives on International Communist Solidarity Organizations’, Holger Weiss (eds.), International Communism and Transnational Solidarity: Radical Networks, Mass Movements and Global Politics, 1919–1939 (Leiden: Brill, 2017), p. 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004324824_002

Kasper Braskén, ‘In Pursuit of Global International Solidarity? The Transnational Networks of the International Workers’ Relief, 1921–1935’, Holger Weiss (red.), International Communism and Transnational Solidarity: Radical Networks, Mass Movements and Global Politics, 1919–1939 (Leiden: Brill, 2017), p. 130–167. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004324824_005

Kasper Braskén, ’The British Miners’ and General Strike of 1926: Problems and Practices of Radical International Solidarity’, in Holger Weiss (ed.), International Communism and Transnational Solidarity: Radical Networks, Mass Movements and Global Politics, 1919–1939 (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 168–190. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004324824_006

Kasper Braskén, ’Celebrating October: The Transnational Commemorations of the Tenth Anniversary of the Soviet Union in Weimar Germany’, in Jean-François Fayet, Valérie Gorin, & Stefanie Prezioso (eds.), Echoes of October: International Commemorations of the Bolshevik Revolution 1918–1990 (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 2017), pp. 76–105.

Kasper Braskén, ‘Making Anti-Fascism Transnational: The Origins of Communist and Socialist Articulations of Resistance in Europe, 1923–1924’, Contemporary European History, 4 (2016), p. 573–596. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777316000424.