Europe at the Crossroads: Confronting Populist, Nationalist and Global Challenges
About this ebook
Europe at the Crossroads is an urgent scholarly response to the sociopolitical challenges that far-right programmes pose to the idea of a more egalitarian world. It offers an interdisciplinary explanation and critique of the dynamics of the far right in Europe – from Poland to the UK, from Sweden to Greece. The authors present immediate alternatives when tackling the exclusionary rhetoric and the politics of resentment.
In formulating alternatives for a ‘social Europe’, each contributor critically assesses the current advance of far- right populism and the threat to liberal democracy since the global financial crisis of 2008 and the European refugee movement of 2015. Each chapter addresses the historical roots and normalization of the extreme right, whether Orbanism in Central and Eastern Europe since 2014, the Brexit campaign and referendum in the UK in 2016. As the slogan ‘Fortress Europe’ – once a pejorative term – now appeals to large numbers of voters, the authors also analyse the flash points in the run-up to the European Parliament elections in May 2019.
About the author
Pieter Bevelander är professor i Internationell migration och etniska relationer vid Insitutionen för Globala politiska studier och föreståndare för Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare vid Malmö Universitet. Hans främsta forskningsintresse är internationell migration och olika aspekter av integration samt inföddas attityder till och syn på invandrare och minoriteter. Han har en omfattande publicering i internationella tidskrifter och sitter i styrelsen för både Journal of International Migration & Ethnic Studies (JEMS) och Comparative Migration Studies (CMS). Han medverkar i en rad olika nätverk och kommittéer, t.ex. är han styrelseledamot både i Delegationen för migrationsstudier (Delmi) och i International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe (IMISCOE).
Ruth Wodak is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University, UK, and the University Vienna, Austria. She has published widely on populism, identity politics and politics of the past, migration and xenophobia, racism, and antisemitism. Recent books in English include The Routledge Handbook on Language and Politics (with Bernhard Forchtner, 2018) and The Politics of Fear: What Right-wing Populist Discourses Mean (2015).
