In the scholarly research on right-wing extremism, the term “New Right” is one that has been used in very different ways, and often rather vaguely. This term has at least three different understandings, which frequently overlap. First, in very
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Renaissance of the New Right in Germany?
A Discussion of New Right Elements in German Right-wing Extremism Today
Samuel Salzborn
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- Research Article
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- 36–63 (28 total)
Hartwig Pautz
terms to merit such a draconian measure. 2 Recognizing their intellectual failings, in the mid-1970s some in Germany's far right began an intellectual transformation under the influence of the French Nouvelle Droite (New Right), but also guided by the
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- Research Article
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- 51–71 (21 total)
Archival Resistance
Reading the New Right
Annika Orich
's Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism , a lecture that the German philosopher and social critic delivered at the University of Vienna two years before his sudden death in 1969, immediately placed eighth following its publication by Suhrkamp in mid July
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Jun 2020
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- Research Article
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- 1–34 (34 total)
Thomas Klikauer, Norman Simms, Helge F. Jani, Bob Beatty, and Nicholas Lokker
Jay Julian Rosellini , The German New Right: AfD, pegida and the Re-imagining of National Identity (London: C. Hurst, 2019). Perhaps the ideological messenger of the recent rise of Germany's new right has indeed been Thilo Sarrazin and
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- Book Review
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- 97–121 (25 total)
“We Must Talk about Cologne”
Race, Gender, and Reconfigurations of “Europe”
Beverly Weber
justice would further require the thinking of Europe as an affective orientation—not as an identity, but as an ongoing project of world-making. The call to revisit or reclaim “European” values cannot succeed here. Nor can a response to the new right (or
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- Research Article
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- 68–86 (19 total)
Sarah Wiliarty and Louise K. Davidson-Schmich
into the Bundestag. Starting at the societal level, Annika Orich's “Archival Resistance: Reading the New Right” examines instances of cultural resistance to the AfD. She studies four such examples including the 2019 re-publication of Theodor Adorno
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- Introduction
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- 1–6 (6 total)
“Montag ist wieder Pegida-Tag!”
Pegida’s Community Building and Discursive Strategies
Helga Druxes
using agitational top-down strategies in order to rebrand itself as a more politically opportune entity. They create the illusion of a spontaneous coalition of diverse interests among the New Right, which in fact operates from a unified base of power and
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- Research Article
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- 17–33 (17 total)
Mobilizing Meanings
Translocal Identities of the Far Right Web
Patricia Anne Simpson
his work on the French nouvelle droite (new right, nd ). More importantly for the emergence and momentum of the new right is the pan-European message their adherents would disseminate. The collective support of “Europe for Europeans,” which Bar
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- Research Article
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- 34–53 (20 total)
Introduction
Innocence and the Politics of Memory
Jonathan Bach and Benjamin Nienass
to peace has been pried open to debate by the new right, who identify external (e.g., Islam) and internal (e.g., “elites”) enemies as the current locus of threat. This argument gains momentum by building on, rather than against, the layered
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2021
- Article Type:
- Introduction
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- 1–14 (14 total)
Pegida in Parliament?
Explaining the Failure of Pegida in Austria
Farid Hafez
repeated in the discourse of Europe’s new right to counteract criticism of obvious racism. 47 The media spokesperson of Pegida Austria openly stated that he regarded himself as an “ethnopluralist,” 48 which means that all nations have a right to exist
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- Research Article
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- 101–118 (18 total)