ISSN:
0002-7294
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
American anthropologist : journal of the American Anthropological Association
Publ. der Quelle:
Malden, Mass. [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 119, No. 3 (2017), p. 524-526
DDC:
100
Abstract:
As we write this essay, Donald Trump has been inaugurated as the forty-fifth president of the United States, it is just six months after the Brexit vote, and just two months before the Dutch elections. Many commentators connect Trump’s win with looming electoral victories by Far-Right parties in the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Italy. We argue that this particular moment in Europe is one of an anxious politics that testifies to a struggle with how to deal with the consequences of earlier colonial histories in contemporary society. This anxious politics “is characterized by heightened anxieties about the fate of the different nation-states that constitute Europe, and based on a projection of the ills currently imagined to face Europe . . . on to specific subjects, often racialized Others” (Modest and De Koning 2016, 98). After both Brexit and Trump’s wins at the polls, the United Kingdom and the United States saw a surge in claims to the nation by many who saw in immigrants and Muslims (among other minority groups) not just a burden to the nation but also a threat to its security and to its future. A virulent nationalism manifested itself. This nationalism is echoed across continental Europe in the rising popularity of extreme-right parties that have unified on an anti-immigration, anti-Islam,and anti-European Union platform.The Netherlands is no exception. Geert Wilders’s Freedom Party has had growing support and is predicted to garner the most votes in the March 2017 elections. The nationalist sentiments he propagates have long since become mainstream.
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URL:
http://www.narcis.nl/publication/RecordID/oai:repository.ubn.ru.nl:2066%2F175445
URL:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aman.12916/abstract
URL:
https://search.proquest.com/docview/1928301423
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