Imagining Far-Right Terrorism: Violence, Immigration, and the Nation State in Contemporary Western Europe Graef Josefin
Imagining Far-Right Terrorism: Violence, Immigration, and the Nation State in Contemporary Western Europe Graef Josefin Imagining Far-right Terrorism explores far-right terrorism as an object of the…
Specifikacia Imagining Far-Right Terrorism: Violence, Immigration, and the Nation State in Contemporary Western Europe Graef Josefin
Imagining Far-Right Terrorism: Violence, Immigration, and the Nation State in Contemporary Western Europe Graef Josefin
Imagining Far-right Terrorism explores far-right terrorism as an object of the narrative imagination in contemporary Western Europe.Western European societies are generally reluctant to think of far-right and racist violence as terrorism, but the reasons for this remain little understood. The author analyses the narratives surrounding far-right and racist violence, drawing on a broad range of empirical sources. This book focuses on the extraordinarily complex case of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) in Germany, and high-profile instances of racist violence in Sweden and Norway.
Situated broadly Her account attributes the limits of imagining violence as far-right terrorism to elite practices of narrative control that maintain positive images of the liberal-democratic order in counterpoint to its two constitutive others - the far-right and racialised minorities.
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