The event aims to explore, discuss and redefine the relationship between the radicalized margins and the mainstream across different social, regional and historical contexts.
Interdisciplinary contributions using different methodological approaches have been selected to
respond to key questions related to:
- the conceptualization of a radicalized mainstream and what implications does it have for our understanding of the relationship of far-right actors/attitudes to the centre.
- which local, national, or transnational networks (including discursive networks) trigger the radicalization of the mainstream, and what new configurations of actors and issues arise from it.
- what are the specific mechanisms and influencing factors from within the mainstream through which radicalization occurs and how can we empirically identify and measure these phenomena, both qualitatively and quantitatively.
- what philosophical and identity-forming concepts are present in far-right and mainstream discourses today and how these concepts are historically situated.
- what are the consequences of radicalized mainstreams for society and specific social groups within it, and how discrimination against specific groups can be more effectively.
- which strategies there are to prevent processes of radicalisation of the mainstream.
- what extent social conflicts and forms of discrimination intertwine across issues (e.g., climate crisis and racism, racism and antisemitism) for the radicalized mainstream.
Further information on the DeZIM-Website.
Registration: rami(at)dezim-institut.de