Right-wing Extremism and No-go-areas in Germany
| Titel: | Right-wing Extremism and No-go-areas in Germany |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Mannheim, 2009 |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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begutachtet In: Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review ; 45 (2009) 3 ; 591–609 |
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Abstract: Right-wing extremist groups in almost every Western European country became aware of the concept of no-go-areas over the course of the 1980s and 1990s, and some of them even applied this concept over a short period. This study looks at the manifestations of this concept in Germany, where politics and society are still confronted with the legacy of Nazism. The author sets out to examine whether no-go-areas actually exist in Germany, and if they do, to look at how life in them is organised, how they are accepted by majority society, and how these activities are supported (or initiated) by the NPD, a German right-wing extremist party. In the region of former East Germany in particular there has been an increase in support for neo-Nazism as an extreme reaction to the deteriorating economic and social situation. Studies have shown that in this region more and more citizens are sinking into the ‘modernisation trap’, and as a result right-wing extremism and neo-Nazism are gaining more and |
