Cultures of rejection: an ethnographic approach to investigate the conditions of acceptability of right-wing positions

  • Manuel Tom Liebig (Vortragende*r)
  • Benjamin Opratko (Vortragende*r)

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science

Beschreibung

Recent successes of right-wing political parties and nationalist mobilizations across Europe call for a deeper understanding of the social and cultural dynamics in which such political projects are able to thrive. They cannot be adequately grasped as either 'protest votes', nor as 'reactions' to migration and refugee movements. We suggest that this emerges from experiences of change and crisis articulated as 'cultures of rejection'. They are based on values, norms and affects which reject immigration, domestic political elites, institutions of civil society and the media, shifting gender relations, and European integration. We focus on the challenges of an ethnographic investigation in a highly contested field, its conceptual framework and analytical strategies. The goal is to carefully reconstruct the systems of knowledge, perception and affect which constitute and reproduce cultures of rejection, along with the conditions under which they develop into a "system of acceptability" (Foucault 1992, 34). Therefore we have to think about theoretical concepts to analyze the current conjuncture; about ethical and moral questions in research practice with people we "don't necessarily like" (Bangstad 2017); about reflective methodologies; about paradigmatic fields where we can examine cultures of rejection on the ground and in their daily articulation in living environments without focussing only on right-wing extremism, political parties or ideological groups; and about possibilities of transnational comparability under specific local conditions.
Zeitraum15 Apr. 2019
EreignistitelSIEF2019 14th Congress
: Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World
VeranstaltungstypKonferenz
OrtSantiago de Compostela , SpanienAuf Karte anzeigen
BekanntheitsgradInternational