Today’s the official release of my book “Imagining Far-right #Terrorism” (FRT). It explores why Western European societies struggle to think of far-right and racist violence as terrorism. A (longish) 🧵 1/ routledge.pub/ImaginingFar-r…
The book builds on the work that has been done on far-right violence & #terrorism in Political Science and IR over the past few decades (esp since the 2010s). However, I approach the topic very much as a humanities scholar fascinated by how #narrative theory and analysis 2/
Sep 11, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Some great articles have come out recently that deal with populist and far-right images of Europe. *Thread*
1. “A ‘Europe des Nations’: Far right Imaginative
Geographies and the Politicization of Cultural Crisis
on Twitter in Western Europe” by @bganesh11 & @CaterinaFroio
#AfD’s lawsuit vs. #BfV still pending. Report examining AfD’s efforts against liberal-democratic basic order (FDGO) claims calling party ‘Test Case’ in public is justified b/c it refutes previous speculations about it as a ‘Suspected Case’. What else does it claim? THREAD 1/32
Report is based on 1,069 pages of publically accessible material from local, regional and federal level (party and election programmes, social media channels, websites, transcribed speeches); NO intelligence and parliamentary material. 2/32
