Preparing for Day X: Looking into Germany’s extreme right-wing radicalization

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350350045" target="_blank" >https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350350045</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350350045.ch-13" target="_blank" >10.5040/9781350350045.ch-13</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Preparing for Day X: Looking into Germany’s extreme right-wing radicalization

Original language description

Over the past decade Germany has seen a relatively low number of Islamist attributed or inspired violent attacks, especially in comparison to its Western neighbours. In parallel, however, an increasingly worrying phenomenon is that of far-right extremism targeting religious and ethnic minorities. The shooting at a shisha-bar in Hanau in February 2020, and the ongoing trial in 2021 of a German Army officer posing as a Syrian refugee who allegedly planned to target politicians and human right advocates identified as ‘enemies’ of the extreme right, are only two examples of recent right-wing extremist violence targeting religiously aligned minorities or seeking to escalate hatred toward these minorities. While attacks in Germany against migrants and religious minorities have long been downplayed and understudied, they have significantly increased since 2015 to the point of being identified by academics and practitioners as the most significant manifestation of radicalisation in Germany today. This chapter draws on fieldwork conducted in 2020 with radicalisation experts, practitioners, local authorities and police, as well as a range of documentary sources, to explore the complexity of right-wing extremist violence in contemporary Germany. In doing so, this chapter contributes to the debate on the role of religion within right-wing radicalisation and ideology. Specifically, it examines how anti-Islamic and anti-Semitic ideologies and sentiments have been mobilised and incorporated into the narratives of violent extremist movements, and how they intersect with ethnic and racialised agendas of the far right, in turn nurturing right-wing radicalisation in society more broadly. 

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Rethinking Religion and Radicalization: Terrorism and Violence Twenty Years After 9/11

ISBN

978-1-3503-5008-3

Number of pages of the result

24

Pages from-to

247-270

Number of pages of the book

300

Publisher name

Bloomsbury

Place of publication

London

UT code for WoS chapter

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