Imagining Farright Terrorism Violence Immigration And The Nation State In Contemporary Western Europe Josefin Graef by Josefin Graef 9781000534993, 1000534995 instant download after payment.

Imagining Far-right Terrorism explores far-right terrorism as an object of the
narrative imagination in contemporary Western Europe.
Western European societies are generally reluctant to think of far-right
and racist violence as terrorism, but the reasons for this remain little
understood. This book focuses on the extraordinarily complex case of the
National Socialist Underground (NSU) in Germany, and high-profile
instances of racist violence in Sweden and Norway. The author analyses
the narratives surrounding far-right and racist violence, drawing on a
broad range of empirical sources. Her account attributes the limits of
imagining violence as far-right terrorism to elite practices of narrative
control that maintain positive images of the liberal-democratic order in
counterpoint to its two constitutive “others” – the far-right and racialised
minorities. Situated broadly within the scholarly tradition of critical
terrorism studies, the book breaks new ground in research on far-right
terrorism by following its narrative traces across time, public spaces of
contestation, and national borders. It also draws on material and findings
originally written in German, Swedish, and Norwegian, which were
previously not available in English.
This much-needed volume will be of particular interest to students and
researchers of terrorism and political violence, right-wing extremism,
European politics, and communication studies.
Josefin Graef is an independent scholar whose work deals with the uses
of narrative theory and analysis for understanding contemporary European
politics and societies, particularly in relation to violence and immigration.