@annelottejanse
Dr. | Historian of German, European, and transnational far-right extremism since 1945 | ๐ Leibniz Center for Contemporary History, Germany https://zzf-potsdam.de/en/institution/people/staff/annelotte-janse
De Volkskrant legt het extreemrechtse netwerk van Forums jongerenbeweging nauwgezet bloot JFVD: white lives matter, geuzenbeweging, de Europese identitaire beweging, en active clubs welkom op het kerstgala
www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
Wat heeft Napoleon met muziek te maken? Hoe werden zijn oorlogen in operaโs bezongen? Kom naar het @sechistnetwork.bsky.social event op 28 januari. Met Dorian Hagedoorn, Barbara Babiฤ en Annelies Andries, plus concert op fortepiano door Lucie de Saint Vincent. Utrecht: forms.office.com/e/2hUgigqrip
Leren van Weimar: is Trump de nieuwe Hitler?
Voor @historiek.bsky.social recenseerde ik het Duitstalige boek 'Wenn das Gestern anklopft' met bijdragen van o.a. Thomas Weber, Philipp Ruch, Robin te Slaa, @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social en @annelottejanse.bsky.social:
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With the official prognosis giving one additional seat to PVV and one to FvD compared to the ext poll, the narrative should really not be that the Netherlands/Jetten has beaten the radical right. The far right bloc remains remarkably stable.
๐ข New Blog Post! ๐จ Just a month before the Dutch elections, Iris Beau Segers and @leoniedejonge.bsky.social highlight the troubling normalization of far-right ideologies, the democratic erosion, and the recent violence at an anti-immigration demo in The Hague. www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...
It is Book Launch day for @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and My edited volume "Contemporary Far-Right Culture The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism"
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โDe normalisering van uiterst rechts zie je terug op straatโ met commentaar van @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @peter8rberg.bsky.social en yours truly www.trouw.nl/politiek/de-...
Just days after a far-right majority in the Dutch parliament asked the government to designate โAntifaโ as a โterrorist organizationโ, far-right โprotestersโ shows yet again that they are the real threat to public order in the Netherlands.
Anti-immigration demonstration in the Netherlands escalates. This is exactly what happens when far-right ideas are tolerated and normalised over an extended period of time. The far right gains confidence and grows, both at the ballot box and in the streets.
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Misschien wel het belangrijkste artikel dat ik ooit geschreven heb. Over de stilte die extreemrechts laat groeien.
Met medewerking van @annelottejanse.bsky.social, @marcofrijlink.bsky.social en @sterknikki.bsky.social
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Verdachte was volgens de Luxemburgse krant Le Quotidien lid van de neonazistische, paramilitaire groep The Base, koesterde โhaat tegen vrouwen, mensen van kleur, homoseksuelen, buitenlanders en mensen met een andere religie dan hijzelfโ, en beschreef zichzelf als een โgoede Ariรซrโ.
๐ Benieuwd naar de oorsprong van de moderne wereldorde? Op 12 juni spreekt @benjaminduerr.com over vrede, recht & de idealen van toen en nu.
๐ Drift 25, zaal 102
๐ 16:00โ17:30
๐ป Borrel bij Cafรฉ Hofman
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Voor Socialisme & Democratie van @wiardibeckman.bsky.social werkte ik mijn Den Uyl Lezing verder uit. Ik laat zien hoe de sociaaldemocratie zich tot radicaal rechts kan verhouden wbs.nl/publicaties/...
It was never about sports, about โprotecting womenโ, about bathrooms. It was always about criminalising the existence of trans people. About making them disappear from public spaces. Forcing them back in the closet or into despair and death. Itโs about eradication.
Nazi items found at home of Austrian parliament speaker's aide. Renรฉ Schimanek, chief of staff to Parliament Speaker Walter Rosenkranz of the far-right Freedom Party, resigns following intense public pressure.
Nieuw essay, met Stefan Paas! Over het gevaar van wit christelijk nationalisme (inclusief context en nuance) ๐๐ผ
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Abstract: How does anti-immigrant rhetoric by mainstream politicians affect norms of tolerance? How does this compare to similar statements made by radical-right politicians? Drawing on experimental evidence, we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians. Subsample analyses suggests that this is because statements by mainstream-right politicians erode norm perceptions of right-wing individuals, while those by radical-right politicians induce backlash among left-wing individuals, who hold closer to the norm in place. The latter effect (backlash by the left) disappears when similar statements are made by mainstream right politicians. We argue that this difference occurs because mainstream politicians represent the views of a larger part of the population or have a higher status. Our results highlight the pivotal role of mainstream politicians in enforcing or eroding democratic norms, and that similar political statements can have different effects depending on their sender.
Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social .
We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric.
Our experiment in ๐ฉ๐ช finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric.
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#Germany's federal criminal police office, not exactly known for over-counting such things, reports that at least 41,000 crimes with a right-wing extremist motive were committed in 2024, a 1/3 increase compared to 2023. 2023, with a 23% increase on 2022, had already marked an all-time high #farright
Vacature! Wil jij bijdragen aan baanbrekend onderzoek naar crisisbestendigheid? Adapt! zoekt een content- en communitycoรถrdinator die communicatie en samenwerking tot leven brengt. Reageer voor 9 maart: www.uu.nl/organisatie/... @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social @rikpeels.bsky.social
On this note, here is a thread with recent research on what normalization is and how it happens.
It includes links to references, from my work and that of others.
I tried to tag the authors whenever they are on here, in case you are interested in following their work.
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Can the EU stop Musk?
โOnly one institution on the planet is large enough and powerful enough to write and enforce laws that could make the tech companies change their policies. (โฆ) But for how much longer will the EU have this authority?โ
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
If you need a starter pack on Christian Nationalism, I've got you covered. Here are some of the people and groups tracking, studying, fighting, and educating about Christian Nationalism in the United States.
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I know I'm missing folks, so hit me up with recs!
๐ฅ Vanaf deze week mag ik het stokje overnemen van @bastiaanrijpkema.bsky.social als politiek columnist bij @groene.nl, afwisselend met de geweldige @merijnoudenampsen.org en @tamardewaal.bsky.social. Mijn eerste bijdrage, over de regeringsdeelname van radicaal rechts, staat nu online!
There are few countries that had a firewall to begin with, most countries had opportunistic politicians on the right. Already documented this in my 2012 article that studied the government participation of the radical right in the first decade of the 21st century journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
action, dog whistles, & perceived championing of hate. In the absence of statements that denounce or explain the meaning, silence gets read as approval, agreement, support. We need mainstream media to say that, to denounce even the perception of a Nazi salute as acceptable.
Hereโs the thing. We will never know the story of what Musk meant here, just like we will never know whether Trump meant anything by โProud Boys, stand back and stand by.โ What we do know is how these things are received by the fringe- as legitimation, call to 1/
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
In a special issue of the Berkeley Journal of Rightwing Studies, edited by @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social and @burscott.bsky.social, Wi-REX team member @jamannahoj.bsky.social (@efbisachsen.bsky.social) explores the allure of post-heroism in far-right memes: escholarship.org/uc/jrws/2/2
#memes #trump
Welcome to the political opposition! It's Day One of a new phase of saving our democracy: lucid.substack.com/p/its-day-on...
Indications that the New Orleans attacker was an actual copy cat of the attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg: the attacker had searched online for information about the attack in Germany 10 days earlier in which a car was also used as a weapon, FBI says
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