Europe's Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right - Softcover

Elizabeth Fekete

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178478723X ISBN 13: 9781784787233

Publisher: Verso Books, 2019

Synopsis

It is clear that the right is on the rise, but after Brexit, the election of Donald Trump and the spike in popularity of extreme-right parties across Europe, the question on everyone s minds is: how did this happen?<br/ > An expansive investigation of the ways in which a newly-configured right interconnects with anti-democratic and illiberal forces at the level of the state, Europe s Fault Lines provides much-needed answers, revealing some uncomfortable truths.<br/ >Old racisms may be structured deep in European thought, but they have been revitalized and spun in new ways: the war on terror, the cultural revolution from the right, and the migration-linked demonization of the destitute scrounger. Drawing on her work for the Institute of Race Relations over thirty years, Liz Fekete exposes the fundamental fault lines of racism and authoritarianism in contemporary Europe.

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About the Author

Liz Fekete is Director of the Institute of Race Relations, where she has worked for over thirty years. She heads its European Research Programme (ERP) and is Advisory Editor to its journal Race & Class. She is the author of A Suitable Enemy: Racism, Migration and Islamophobia in Europe.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178478723X
• ISBN 13: 9781784787233
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224