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.

List of contents

Introduction: Wolf politics
1 The 'East': Depopulation, deindustrialisation, colonialism
2 Wolf packs: Pogroms, pillories and riots
3 Renaturing and the politics of Heimat
4 Herding wayward citizens
5 Affective politics
6 Sheep in wolves' clothing?
Index

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: Julia Leser, Julia (Research Fellow) Leser, Rebecca Pates, Rebecca (Professor of Political Science) Pates, Rebecca (Professor of Political Science) Le Pates, Pates Rebecca
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781526147011
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4701-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Manchester University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Nationalismus, Deutschland, Germany, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Demokratische Ideologien: Konservativismus, Mitte-rechts, Nationalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies