ISBN:
9780367816124
,
0367816121
,
9781000534979
,
1000534979
,
9781000534993
,
1000534995
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
1 Edition
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in fascism and the far right
DDC:
303.6094
Keywords:
Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund
;
Terrorismus
;
Neue Rechte
;
Rassismus
;
Gewalt
;
Right-wing extremists History
;
Democracy History
;
Racism History
;
Violence History
;
HISTORY / General
;
HISTORY / Europe / General
;
HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
;
Deutschland
;
Schweden
;
Norwegen
Abstract:
"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 violence as terrorism, but the reasons for this remain little understood. 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. The author analyses the narratives surrounding far-right violence, drawing on a broad range of empirical sources. 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. Situated broadly within the scholarly tradition of critical terrorism studies, the book breaks new ground in research on far-right terrorism by following its narrative traces across time, public spaces of contestation, and national borders. It also draws on material and findings on far-right terrorism originally written in German, Swedish, and Norwegian, which were previously not available in English. This much-needed volume will be of particular interest to students and researchers of terrorism and political violence, right-wing extremism, European politics, and communication studies"--...
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367816124
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