The past decade has witnessed a surge of nationalist, far-right politics 
across Europe and beyond it, as well as increasing scholarly interest in 
the study of such phenomena, especially from researchers who have 
brought urgently-needed and previously scarce ethnographic perspectives 
to bear on them. In this talk, anthropology professor Nitzan Shoshan 
will discuss his prize-winning book The Management of Hate: Nation, 
Affect, and the Governance of Right-Wing Extremism in Germany, the 
result of extended ethnographic fieldwork with groups of young 
right-wing extremists in East Berlin. An early contribution to the 
growing ethnography of the far right, Professor Shoshan’s study analyzes 
how the German state orchestrates political affects at the social 
margins, arguing that right-wing extremists perform important political 
work within a broader contemporary project of German nationhood. In his 
talk, Professor Shoshan will focus on the politics of the distinction 
that separates extremes from mainstream. How is the relationship between 
right-wing extremism and a presumed mainstream constituted and imagined? 
And what can political anthropology contribute to our understanding of 
that relationship?
In Kooperation mit dem Projekt “Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe” (https://uol.de/rpmg).