"White Jihad" and "White Sharia": Jihadism as an Instrument of Intra-Extremist Outbidding among Right-Wing Extremists
In: Terrorism and political violence, S. 1-18
ISSN: 1556-1836
In: Terrorism and political violence, S. 1-18
ISSN: 1556-1836
In: Research & politics: R&P, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 205316802311524
ISSN: 2053-1680
The resurgence of Right-Wing Extremism (RWE) has become a cause for concern in Western countries during the 21st century. An increase in white nationalist sentiment in recent years has provided impetus to understand the contemporary drivers of far-right ideology. This study examines in-group and out-group debates on Stormfront.org, which is the largest and oldest online community dedicated to white nationalism and extreme right-wing political views. It used a dataset of approximately 1m posts collected from the open Opposing Views forum on Stormfront from the period 2001 to 2020 to create a corpus of over 195m words for thematic analysis. A Natural Language Processing (NLP) model was used to analyze the corpus, and a supervised phrase mining algorithm was used to identify key topics in the debate. The study finds that key issues being debated between in-group and out-group members of the Stormfront online community relate to perceptions of white identity, African American identity, racial issues, conservative political issues, and the history and politics of the United States. These findings highlight the issues of mutual importance to in-group and out-group members and identify opportunities for further research into the ideology of online RWE communities.
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- This Volume -- The Historical Context -- Postwar Developments to 1989 -- The Collapse of Communism and the Apparent Hegemony of Capitalism -- Academia and New Right-Wing Movements -- The Anthropological Eye -- What Follows -- References -- Chapter 2: Old and New Nationalisms in the Brexit Borderlands of Northern Ireland -- Neo- and Paleo-nationalism -- The Border Issue -- Brexit and the Border -- Brexit Bombshell at the Border -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: From Houses and Grandparents to Brexit: Connections Between Memory, Objects and Right-Wing Populism -- A Bit of Margate's History and Fieldwork Methods -- The Routine at the Local Charity Shop -- The Routine of the Local History Society -- British Houses, Memories and Relatedness -- From Houses and Grandparents to Brexit -- Connections and Disconnections Between Brexit and Trump -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: "Dancing" with the Extreme Right: Do New Partners Bring New Dangers to Germany? -- West German Postwar "Dancing" with the Extreme Right: 1949-1990 -- New "Dancers"? The Case of the Former East Germany -- Economic Collapse -- "Carpet-Baggers" and Corruption: Political Developments -- Enter Right-Wing Parties -- A Different "Dance"? The Case of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) -- Greiz: A Small Thuringian City -- Discussion -- The Role of Economics -- The Role of Politics -- The Role of Culture -- The Problem of Researcher Bias -- East Germans and the Extreme Right: A Preliminary Analysis -- Germany and the United States: Parallels and Differences -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Dispossession, Anger, and the Making of a Neoliberal Legitimacy Crisis.
In: Politikon: the IAPSS journal of political science, Band 2, S. 5-6
ISSN: 1583-3984, 2414-6633
In: Terrorism and political violence, Band 35, Heft 6, S. 1389-1409
ISSN: 1556-1836
In: Behavioral sciences of terrorism & political aggression, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 241-258
ISSN: 1943-4480
In: Gender and Far Right Politics in Europe, S. 49-64
In: Terrorism and political violence, Band 34, Heft 8, S. 1721-1738
ISSN: 1556-1836
In: Behavioral sciences of terrorism & political aggression, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 215-245
ISSN: 1943-4480
In: Terrorism and political violence, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 383-394
ISSN: 1556-1836
In: ZRex - Zeitschrift für Rechtsextremismusforschung, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 159-179
ISSN: 2701-9632
Gesellschaftskritik von rechts hat Konjunktur: Rechtspopulistische Parteien und Bewegungen erklären sich derzeit in vielen Staaten zum Sprachrohr (angeblich) unterdrückter Meinungen. Nicht erst seit der Covid-19-Pandemie ist das Internet dabei zentraler Schauplatz der Auseinandersetzungen. Der These folgend, dass rechtsextreme Narrative inzwischen auch in gesamtgesellschaftlichen Debatten ausgemacht werden können, haben wir Videos der Social-Media-Plattform YouTube auf diese Narrative analysiert. Gemeinsamen Bezug bilden die jüngsten Ereignisse um die Regulierung von Abtreibung in Polen, wo im Oktober 2020 das geltende Abtreibungsrecht für verfassungswidrig erklärt wurde, und Argentinien, dessen Regierung Abtreibung am 30. Dezember 2020 legalisierte. Während im analysierten Diskursausschnitt Frauenrechte und eine liberale Abtreibungspolitik oft positive Bewertung finden, bieten diese Themen auch Anlass hitziger Debatten, die häufig in Beleidigung, Herabwürdigung oder Hass umschlagen. Sexismus, Misogynie und vor allem Antifeminismus können dabei als besonders geeignete Anknüpfungspunkte für rechtsextreme Inhalte identifiziert werden.
In: Moving the Social, Band 66, S. 43-62
ISSN: 2197-0394
In this article, I give an overview on nativist street protests in Germany from the early nineteenth century to the present from an historical perspective. In a preliminary remark, I will reflect on some recent developments in Germany, where nativist protest campaigns against immigration took place in the streets when voters were turning towards the populist radical right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). In the first section, I will outline an older tradition of anti-immigration protest in nineteenth and early twentieth century Germany, which is closely connected to modern antisemitism. In sections two and three, I will retrace how, from the late 1960s onward, the far right in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) discovered concerns about immigration in the German population, addressed them in protest campaigns and developed narratives to integrate such sentiments into a broader right-wing extremist ideology, itself deeply rooted in antisemitism. Studying nativism and the radical right from an actor-oriented perspective, I will focus on traditionalist movements, including the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) and neo-Nazi groups.
In: Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik, Band 37, Heft 3/4, S. 73-93
Die Notwendigkeit einer auf Mädchen und junge Frauen zugeschnittenen Rechtsextremismus-Prävention wird in jüngerer Zeit verstärkt wahrgenommen, eine subjekttheoretische, sozialwissenschaftliche und -pädagogische Aspekte verbindende Konzeption existiert jedoch noch nicht. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert Elemente des Eingreifens in rechtsextrem mitbestimmte Alltagspraxen von Mädchen und jungen Frauen.
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 27, Heft 2, S. 203-224
ISSN: 1475-6765
Abstract. The so‐called 'third wave' of right‐wing extremism has taken both society and social science by storm. In contrast to the many studies that look for possible explanations for the success of this 'wave', this article focusses on right‐wing extremism itself. In the first part, the concept is defined on the basis of the existing literature, as a political ideology that consists of a combination of several features. In the second part, these features are first conceptualized and second used in a comparative analysis of the ideologies of three alleged right‐wing extremist parties (the Dutch CP'86, the German NPD and the Austrian NDP). This analysis shows a more differentiated picture of the ideology of this 'party family', and is a warning against too careless generalisations.