Radicalism and Responses from Below

Abstract

This panel examines radicalism, populism, extremism and the responses to these political phenomena from a localist and/or transnational perspective. Drawing from the 'localist turn' in populism studies (Chou et al. 2022) and in the research on far-right normalization (Domann 2023), the papers go beyond the concept of national populisms to explore the manifold roles of spaces and places in radical mobilizations and democratic responses. In discussing original findings of qualitative research on various local, regional, and transnational case studies, this panel contributes nuanced insights into the politics of place in contemporary Europe.

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The pretence of the cordon sanitaire: non-collaboration as a distraction from discursive congruence	View Paper Details
Disrupting the democratic fabric on the local level: Far-right populist practices and their effects on political and cultural institutions in Germany	View Paper Details
Home is where the heartland is? Towards a conceptual framework for the politics of place	View Paper Details
Anti-Muslim discourses and practices between mechanisms of far-right normalisation and mainstream racism in German subnational politics – shaping, dissemination and preventing	View Paper Details