1st Edition

Imagining Far-right Terrorism Violence, Immigration, and the Nation State in Contemporary Western Europe

By Josefin Graef Copyright 2022
244 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Imagining Far-right Terrorism explores far-right terrorism as an object of the narrative imagination in contemporary Western Europe. Western European societies are generally reluctant to think of far-right and racist violence as terrorism, but the reasons for this remain little understood. This book focuses on the extraordinarily complex case of the National Socialist Underground (NSU)... Read more

1. Imagining Far-right Terrorism

2. Narrative Dialectics

3. After Evil

4. Filling the Void

5. Counter-imaginations

6. The Making of a Terrorism Trial

7. Proving Far-right Terrorism in Court

8. The Limits of Imagining Far-right Terrorism

Biography

Josefin Graef is an independent scholar whose work deals with the uses of narrative theory and analysis for understanding contemporary European politics and societies, particularly in relation to violence and immigration.