Wolves Are Coming Back The Politics of Fear in Eastern Germany

The wolves are coming back moves beyond stereotypic representations of East Germany, and shines light on the complexities of post-socialist life and losses. It seeks to explain the extraordinary success of new far right parties in a vivid ethnographic recounting of the local politics of fear, hope and national identity.

About the author

Rebecca Pates is Professor in Political Science at Leipzig University

Julia Leser is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Humboldt University Berlin

Summary

The wolves are coming back moves beyond stereotypic representations of East Germany, and shines light on the complexities of post-socialist life and losses. It seeks to explain the extraordinary success of new far right parties in a vivid ethnographic recounting of the local politics of fear, hope and national identity. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca (Professor of Political Science) Pates, Julia (Research Fellow) Leser, Rebecca (Professor of Political Science) Le Pates, Rebecca Pates, Julia Leser, Pates Rebecca
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.07.2020
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
• EAN: 9781526147011
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4701-1
• Pages: 232
• Series: Manchester University Press
• Subjects: Migration, Nationalismus, Deutschland, Populism, Germany, Protest, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Demokratische Ideologien: Konservativismus, Mitte-rechts, Nationalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Migration, immigration & emigration, East Germany, Migration, immigration and emigration, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Nationalism and nationalist ideologies and movements, nationalism; far right politics; East Germany; populism; political ethnography; politics of fear; affects in politics; democracy in action; protest; migration, political ethnography, politics of fear, affects in politics, democracy in action