The management of hate : nation, affect, and the governance of right-wing extremism in Germany / Nitzan Shoshan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shoshan, Nitzan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Right-wing extremists--Germany.

Right-wing extremists.

Government policy.

Germany.

Right-wing extremists--Government policy--Germany.

Nationalism--Germany.

Nationalism.

Political culture--Germany.

Political culture.

Political sociology.

Germany--Politics and government--1990-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xvii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Since German ramification in 1990, there has been widespread concern about marginalized young people who, faced with bleak prospects for their future, have embraced increasingly violent forms of racist nationalism that glorify the country's Nazi past. The Management of Hate, Nitzan Shosharis riveting account of the year and a half he spent with these young right-wing extremists in East Berlin, reveals how they contest contemporary notions of national identity and defy the clichés that others use to represent them. Shoshan situates them within what he calls the governance of affect, a broad body of discourses and practices aimed at orchestrating their attitudes toward cultural difference-from legal codes and penal norms to rehabilitative techniques and pedagogical strategies. Governance has conventionally been viewed as rational administration, while emotions have ordinarily been conceived of as individual states. Shoshan, however, convincingly questions both assumptions. Instead, he offers a fresh view of governance as pregnant with affect and of hate as publicly mediated and politically administered. Shoshan argues that the state's policies push these youths into a right-extremist corner instead of integrating them in ways that could curb their nationalist racism. His point is certain to resonate across European and non-European contexts where, amid robust xenophobic nationalisms, hate becomes precisely the object of public dispute. Powerful and compelling, The Management of Hate provides a rare and disturbing look inside Germany's right-wing extremist world, and shines critical light on a German nationhood haunted by its own historical contradictions. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I

1 A Specter of Nationalism 3

Taming the Demons 6

The National Remains 10

New Poor, Old Ghosts 15

On the Streets of Treptow-Köpenick 21

2 East and West, Right and Left 29

Young, National, Social 32

Imagining Ossis 38

Grandpa Was SS, Dad Was Stasi 42

3 The Kebab and the Wurst 55

The Beer at Little Istanbul Tastes Better 56

Distinctions in the Landscape of Otherness 64

Talking Immigrants 71

Everything in Moderation 79

Part II

4 Penal Regimes of Political Delinquency 87

"There Shall Be No Censorship" 91

Legal (In)distinctions 99

Indeterminate Injunctions 114

5 The State Inside 117

Police Overkill 124

Men of Confidence 129

Friends and Traitors 133

Cops and Thieves 137

6 Knowing Intimately 141

A Close Call, or, The Occult Paths of Knowledge 144

The Surveillance Machine 149

The Ethics and Praxis of Street Social Work 154

Governance Up Close 159

7 Advances in the Sciences of Exorcism 169

Etiologies 173

Facing the Facts 176

The Rational Kernel 182

If It Walks Like a Nazi 188

The Nationalist Thing 192

Part III

8 Inoculating the National Public 199

A Civilizing Mission 204

Building Coalitions 209

Whose Demonstration? 214

Crafting Resilience 221

9 National Visions 227

Stars over Berlin 227

Reading the Stars 230

Heterotopic Landscapes 232

Tactics of Visibility 237

Just Mourning 248

Catastrophe at the Gate 251.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691171951

0691171955

9780691171968

0691171963

OCLC:

944469149