"Defenders of European culture" - "refugee crisis", football hooliganism and the right-wing shift in Europe

• Verfasst von: Brunssen, Pavel [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Claus, Robert [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Römer, Peter [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: "Defenders of European culture" - "refugee crisis", football hooliganism and the right-wing shift in Europe
• Verf.angabe: Pavel Brunssen, Robert Claus, Peter Römer
• Jahr: 2021
• Umfang: 18 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 28.10.2023
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Football, politics and identity
• Ort Quelle: London : Routledge, 2021
• Jahr Quelle: 2021
• Band/Heft Quelle: (2021), Seite 108-125
• ISBN Quelle: 978-1-000-39470-2
• ISBN Quelle: 1-000-39470-0
• ISBN Quelle: 978-1-000-39457-3
• ISBN Quelle: 1-000-39457-3
• ISBN Quelle: 978-1-003-00262-8
• ISBN Quelle: 1-003-00262-5
• DOI: doi:10.4324/9781003002628-8
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1868667855

Abstract

A new transnational racism developed during the so-called refugee crisis with its peak in 2015. Far-right protagonists are drawing a threatening scenario of a Muslim migration that will replace a supposedly all-white and all-Christian European culture. The smoke of pyrotechnics is in the air. People chant and wave flags. The anti-refugee campaigns in Europe are, people argue, best understood as part of larger political practices by the far-right. Ultras and hooligans did not only display their worldview in the stadiums, they also gathered for the fight on the streets, thereby allowing right-wing politicians to enter public spaces that otherwise would not have been available or at least would have been more contested, for instance, by counter-demonstrators. Ultras and hooligans opened space for right-wing politicians in several European countries. Racism and anti-racism in football fan cultures have been the subject of academic inquiry in various cases.