"Defenders of European culture" - "refugee crisis", football hooliganism and the right-wing shift in Europe
A new transnational racism developed during the so-called refugee crisis with its peak in 2015. Far-right protagonists are drawing a threatening scenario of a Muslim migration that will replace a supposedly all-white and all-Christian European culture. The smoke of pyrotechnics is in the air. People...
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| Format: | Chapter/Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Football, politics and identity
Year: 2021, Pages: 108-125 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003002628-8 |
| Online Access: | Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003002628-8 Resolving-System, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003002628-8/defenders-european-culture-refugee-crisis-1-football-hooliganism-right-wing-shift-europe2-pavel-brunssen-robert-claus-peter-r%C3%B6mer?context=ubx&refId=068eda88-55c8-4641-83aa-c768e2b810ad |
| Author Notes: | Pavel Brunssen, Robert Claus, Peter Römer |
| Summary: | A new transnational racism developed during the so-called refugee crisis with its peak in 2015. Far-right protagonists are drawing a threatening scenario of a Muslim migration that will replace a supposedly all-white and all-Christian European culture. The smoke of pyrotechnics is in the air. People chant and wave flags. The anti-refugee campaigns in Europe are, people argue, best understood as part of larger political practices by the far-right. Ultras and hooligans did not only display their worldview in the stadiums, they also gathered for the fight on the streets, thereby allowing right-wing politicians to enter public spaces that otherwise would not have been available or at least would have been more contested, for instance, by counter-demonstrators. Ultras and hooligans opened space for right-wing politicians in several European countries. Racism and anti-racism in football fan cultures have been the subject of academic inquiry in various cases. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 28.10.2023 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9781000394702 1000394700 9781000394573 1000394573 9781003002628 1003002625 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003002628-8 |