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Race, Islamophobia and the politics of citizenship in post-unification Germany
- Source :
- Patterns of Prejudice. 52:496-512
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2018.
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Abstract
- In the immediate aftermath of German reunification, as in the wake of the recent humanitarian crisis, Germany experienced notable ‘peaks’ of racist agitation and violence. In the 1990s, as today, the post-Communist eastern regions of Germany tend to be perceived as the hub of such racism. In this article, Lewicki revisits both ‘peaks’ via an examination of numerical evidence for verbal and physical racist violence in the former East and West of Germany. Rather than conceiving of racism as ‘cyclical’ or a specific legacy of the Communist dictatorship, her analysis suggests that political projects in Germany’s past and present have retained distinct structural incarnations of race. Far-right activists could thus successfully channel animosities resulting from the terms of unification into nationalist and racist resentment: momentarily more so in the East, but increasingly also in the West. The politics of citizenship, Lewicki argues, has provided a key means of perpetuating, reaffirming and cementing racialized hierarchies in the two post-war German states, but also in reunified Germany.
- Subjects :
- Cultural Studies
History
Islamophobia
media_common.quotation_subject
Refugee
0507 social and economic geography
Racism
HT
German
Politics
HM0621
Political science
050602 political science & public administration
HM0706
HM0826
Citizenship
Communism
media_common
05 social sciences
language.human_language
0506 political science
Nationalism
HM0711
HM0831
Political economy
language
050703 geography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14617331 and 0031322X
- Volume :
- 52
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Patterns of Prejudice
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7ed254ecb2ba81c619d0f86de42408e9