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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since German reunification 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 Shoshan's 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Part I

1. A Specter of Nationalism

2. East and West, Right and Left

3. The Kebab and the Wurst

Part II

4. Penal Regimes of Political Delinquency

5. The State Inside

6. Knowing Intimately

7. Advances in the Sciences of Exorcism

Part III

8. Inoculating the National Public

9. National Visions

Afterword

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781400883653

1400883652

OCLC:

956647140