TY  - UNPD
A1  - Schwartz, William Alexander
T1  - The Rise of the Far Right and the Domestication of the War on Terror
T2  - Forum Humangeographie ; 18
N2  - Today in the United States, the notion that ‘the rise of the far right’ poses the greatest threat to democratic values, and by extension, to the nation itself, has slowly entered into common sense. The antecedent of this development is the object of our study. Explored through the prism of what we refer to as the domestication of the War on Terror, this publication adopts and updates the theoretical approach first forwarded in Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, the Law and Order (Hall et al. 1978). Drawing on this seminal work, a sequence of three disparate media events are explored as they unfold in the United States in mid-2015: the rise of the Trump campaign; the release of an op-ed in The New York Times warning of a rise in right-wing extremsim; and a mass shooting at a historic African American church in Charleston, South Carolina. By the end of 2015, as these disparate events converge into what we call the public face of the rise of the far right phenomenon, we subsequently turn our attention to its origins in policing and the law in the wake of the global War on Terror and the Great Recession. It is only from there, that we turn our attention to the poltical class struggle as expressed in the rise of 'populism' on the one hand, and the domestication of the War on Terror on the other, and in doing so, attempt to situate the role of the rise of the far right phenomenon within it.
T3  - Forum Humangeographie - 18 
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/62762
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-627629
SN  - 978-3-935918-27-5
VL  - 2022
SP  - 3
EP  - 214
PB  - Goethe-Universität, Institut für Humangeographie
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -