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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

Rebecca Pates is Professor in Political Science at Leipzig University

Julia Leser is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Humboldt University Berlin

Résumé

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. -- .

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Julia Leser, Julia (Research Fellow) Leser, Rebecca Pates, Rebecca (Professor of Political Science) Pates, Rebecca (Professor of Political Science) Le Pates, Pates Rebecca
• Edition: Manchester University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781526147011
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4701-1
• Pages: 232
• Thème: Manchester University Press
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique; 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