Europe's Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right

Product Information

She also makes the point that the centre left cannot be let off the hook, citing New Labour’s ‘controls on immigration’ mug during the 2015 UK General Election as a contemporary example. Her book is a timely contribution to spotlight the worrying increase of institutional racism in nation-states, the complicity of mainstream parties in enabling the rise of the far right and, especially, a radical critique of current ‘exit extremism’ programmes. The map of European earthquake risk illustrates the relative distribution of expected risk across Europe through a composite index. However, the map also shows earthquake hotspots near Brussels in Belgium, Lisbon in Portugal, near Budapest in Hungary and along the Pyrenees mountain range.

Having presented a very troubling picture throughout, Fekete ends on a positive note of resistance in her last chapter, ‘They Shall Not Pass’, where, as an opposition to the rise of the forces that she has been discussing, and the prevalence of their ideas, she talks about how ‘deeply rooted in European culture … are humanitarian, anti-fascist and socialist ones’ (p. It is important when analysing such seismic results not to fall into the trap of utilising a hypodermic-needle model that assumes that people are empty vessels, deprived of agency, and simply open to all the worst sorts of propagandising. The vulnerability of populations depends on a multitude of factors that go beyond the actual earthquake’s magnitude.

But the Chemnitz riots also showed the active part state organisations can play in making extreme right views acceptable in society.

There is no attempt to even explore the significant social science around majority white populations views on immigration (such as the very insightful book Whiteshift). Or it could alternatively be construed as a rigorous one, where academic standards demand that conclusions cannot simply be asserted but should be demonstrated.This has happened through the creation of new criminal offences and the strict implementation of a raft of administrative ones.

As it turned out, he had no reason whatsoever to believe that the video was doctored and after public outrage had to enter early retirement. If you donate and also register with the drb you will enjoy permanent free access to our archive of several thousand essays on reaching €100 in donations.The controlling narrative behind this, on both the centre right and centre left, is a move away from discourses of integration to one of assimilation. Instead, it can be argued that processes such as globalisation do not have actor-like qualities and do not create ‘identity crises’ by themselves.