Emotions

Introduction Western Europe’s right-wing populists have opened up a new front in Western Europe’s variant of the American culture war. The magic word is “Impffreiheit” (or freedom to choose to…

Read now

Read now

Insights

Far-Right Extremism and the Politics of Feeling: Embracing the ‘Affective Turn’

Paul Jackson
October 25, 2021

For casual observers, journalists and researchers alike, the small, impassioned worlds generated by the extreme right can seem, to say the least, deeply unappealing. The agendas of such extremists are…

Read now

Read now

Insights

When Emotion Trumps Dispassionate Politics

Hans-Georg Betz
April 4, 2020

The radical populist right’s appeal to emotions has been one of the main reasons for its staying power over the span of more than four decades. The triumph of Nazism…

Read now

Categories

How anti-Corona measures have revived the populist right

Far-Right Extremism and the Politics of Feeling: Embracing the ‘Affective Turn’

When Emotion Trumps Dispassionate Politics