The Management of Hate: Nation, Affect, and the Governance of Right-Wing Extremism in Germany

321 Pages·2016·10.72 MB·English

by  Nitzan Shoshan

The Management of Hate

The Management of Hate
Nation, Affect, and the Governance of
Right- Wing Extremism in Germany
Nitzan Shoshan
Pri n c eton U n i v e r si t y Pre s s
Pri n c eton a n d Ox f ord
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Names: Shoshan, Nitzan, author.
Title: The management of hate : nation, affect, and the governance of
right-wing extremism in Germany / Nitzan Shoshan.
Description: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2016. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016003353| ISBN 9780691171951 (hardback : acid-free paper) |
ISBN 9780691171968 (paperback : acid-free paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Right-wing extremists—Germany. | Right-wing extremists—
Government policy—Germany. | Nationalism—Germany. | Political culture—
Germany. | Political sociology—Germany. | Germany—Politics and
government—1990- | BISAC: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. | SOCIAL SCIENCE /
Violence in Society. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies. | SOCIAL SCIENCE /
Ethnic Studies / General. | HISTORY / Europe / Germany.
Classification: LCC HN460.R3 S56 2016 | DDC 303.48/40943—dc23 LC record
available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016003353
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
Abbreviations xix
Part I
1 A SPECTER OF NATIONALISM 3
Taming the Demons 6
The National Remains 10
New Poor, Old Ghosts 15
On the Streets of Treptow- Köpenick 21
2 EAST AND WEST, RIGHT AND LEFT 29
Young, National, Social 32
Imagining Ossis 38
Grandpa Was SS, Dad Was Stasi 42
3 THE KEBAB AND THE WurSt 55
The Beer at Little Istanbul Tastes Better 56
Distinctions in the Landscape of Otherness 64
Talking Immigrants 71
Everything in Moderation 79
Part II
4 PENAL REGIMES OF POLITICAL DELINqUENCY 87
“There Shall Be No Censorship” 91
Legal (In)distinctions 99
Indeterminate Injunctions 114
5 THE STATE INSIDE 117
Police Overkill 124
Men of Confidence 129
Friends and Traitors 133
Cops and Thieves 137
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6 KNOWING INTIMATELY 141
A Close Call, or, The Occult Paths of Knowledge 144
The Surveillance Machine 149
The Ethics and Praxis of Street Social Work 154
Governance Up Close 159
7 ADVANCES IN THE SCIENCES OF EXORCISM 169
Etiologies 173
Facing the Facts 176
The Rational Kernel 182
If It Walks Like a Nazi 188
The Nationalist Thing 192
Part III
8 INOCULATING THE NATIONAL PUBLIC 199
A Civilizing Mission 204
Building Coalitions 209
Whose Demonstration? 214
Crafting Resilience 221
9 NATIONAL VISIONS 227
Stars over Berlin 227
Reading the Stars 230
Heterotopic Landscapes 232
Tactics of Visibility 237
Just Mourning 248
Catastrophe at the Gate 251
Afterword 261
Bibliography 269
Index 291
Illustrations
Map 1. Berlin. 24
Map 2. Treptow- Köpenick. 27
Figure 1. Fans at a Union match. 44
Figure 2. The Kugel. 47
Figure 3. The Bretterbude. 68
Figure 4. A Junge Nationaldemokraten march. 242
Figure 5. The Spreehexe restaurant. 244
Figure 6. Pariser Platz 256