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  • Authoritarian Temptations and Right-Wing Threat Alliance

    The Crisis of Capitalistic Societies in an Uncertain Future

    by Wilhelm Heitmeyer ...
    This book, by noted German sociologist Wilhelm Heitmeyer, analyses capitalist development in Western Europe, with a focus on Germany, since the 1990s and its consequences for open society and liberal democracy. Following Heitmeyer’s long-term interest in extremism, this book highlights two main threads of discussion: the causes and distribution of authoritarian tendencies, and the processes and ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • School Shootings

    International Research, Case Studies, and Concepts for Prevention

    Edited by Thorsten Seeger, Peter Sitzer, Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Nils Böckler ...
    School shootings are a topic of research in a variety of different disciplines—from psychology, to sociology to criminology, pedagogy, and public health—each with their own set of theories. Many of these theories are logically interconnected, while some differ widely and seem incompatible with each other, leading to divergent results about potential means of prevention. In this innovative work, ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Control of Violence

    Historical and International Perspectives on Violence in Modern Societies

    Edited by Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Stefan Malthaner, Andrea Kirschner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The Control of Violence in Modern Society, starts from the hypothesis that in modern society we will face an increasing loss of control over certain phenomena of violence. This leads to unpredictable escalations and violence can no longer be contained adequately by the relevant control regimes, such as police, state surveillance institutions, national repression apparatuses and international law. ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Codes of the Street in Risky Neighborhoods

    A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Youth Violence in Germany, Pakistan, and South Africa

    by Wilhelm Heitmeyer, Simon Howell, Sebastian Kurtenbach, Abdul Rauf, Muhammad Zaman, Steffen Zdun ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book presents a comparative look at the norms and attitudes related to youth violence. It aims to present a perspective outside of the typical Western context, through case studies comparing a developed / Western democracy (Germany), a country with a history of institutionalized violence (South Africa), and an emerging democracy that has experienced heavy terrorism (Pakistan). Building on ... Read more

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    Escape into Authoritarianism

    Edited by Oliver Decker, Johannes Kiess, Elmar Brähler ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
    The Dynamics of Right-Wing Extremism within German Society explores the prevalence of right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany.The book provides a thorough psychosocial and sociological theory of general authoritarian dynamics to explain broader societal attitudes, particularly focusing on right-wing extremism. It provides a uniquely long-term perspective on the different dimensions of right-wing ... Read more

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  • After the Nazi Racial State

    Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe

    by Rita Chin, Heide Fehrenbach, Geoff Eley, Atina Grossmann ...
    Series series Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany
    "After the Nazi Racial State offers a comprehensive, persuasive, and ambitious argument in favor of making 'race' a more central analytical category for the writing of post-1945 history. This is an extremely important project, and the volume indeed has the potential to reshape the field of post-1945 German history."---Frank Biess, University of California, San DiegoWhat happened to "race," race ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • History Education and Post-Conflict Reconciliation

    Reconsidering Joint Textbook Projects

    Edited by Simone Lässig, Karina Korostelina ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This book analyses the role of history education in conflict and post-conflict societies, describing common history textbook projects in Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Far East and the Middle East.Ever since the emergence of the modern school system and the implementation of compulsory education, textbooks have been seen as privileged media. The knowledge they convey is relatively ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Spiral of Silence

    New Perspectives on Communication and Public Opinion

    Edited by Wolfgang Donsbach, Charles T. Salmon, Yariv Tsfati ...
    Since its original articulation in the early 1970s, the 'spiral of silence' theory has become one of the most studied theories of communication and public opinion. It has been tested in varied sociopolitical contexts, with different issues and across communication systems around the world. Attracting the interest of scholars from communication, political science, sociology, public opinion and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Blood and Culture

    Youth, Right-Wing Extremism, and National Belonging in Contemporary Germany

    by Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Over the past decade, immigration and globalization have significantly altered Europe’s cultural and ethnic landscape, foregrounding questions of national belonging. In Blood and Culture, Cynthia Miller-Idriss provides a rich ethnographic analysis of how patterns of national identity are constructed and transformed across generations. Drawing on research she conducted at German vocational schools ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Identity and Participation in Culturally Diverse Societies

    A Multidisciplinary Perspective

    by Assaad E. Azzi, Xenia Chryssochoou, Bert Klandermans, Bernd Simon ...
    Identity and Participation in Culturally Diverse Societies presents an original discussion in an edited volume of how the links between identity, political participation, radicalization, and integration can provide a scientific understanding of the complex issue of coexistence between groups in culturally diverse societies.Offers a scientific understanding of the complex issue of coexistence ... Read more

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  • Intractable Conflicts

    Socio-Psychological Foundations and Dynamics

    by Daniel Bar-Tal ...
    This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and holistic analysis of the socio-psychological dynamics of intractable conflicts. Daniel Bar-Tal's original conceptual framework is supported by evidence drawn from different disciplines, including empirical data and illustrative case studies. His analysis rests on the premise that intractable conflicts share certain socio-psychological ... Read more

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  • The Management of Hate

    Nation, Affect, and the Governance of Right-Wing Extremism in Germany

    by Nitzan Shoshan ...
    Since German reunification in 1990, there has been widespread concern about marginalized young people who, faced with bleak prospects for their future, have embraced increasingly violent forms of racist nationalism that glorify the country's Nazi past. The Management of Hate, Nitzan Shoshan’s riveting account of the year and a half he spent with these young right-wing extremists in East Berlin, ... Read more

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