The Germanic Tribes, the Gods and the German Far Right Today

Schuppener, Georg

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“…In the long run, the fundamental (now largely outdated) assumption that medieval Iceland had been a retreat for a genuine 'Germanism' even entailed that a major part of the popular fascination (or nostalgia as it has recently been called) with the Middle Ages has been focused on Old Norse literature in particular. As recent scholarship has pointed out, this popular reception has a long history, too, and did not simply collapse after the end of World War II, as is sometimes assumed, but rather continued in various respects (see, e.g., Oberkrome 2007;Puschner and Großmann 2009;Zernack and Schulz 2019;Schuppener 2021). The same seems to hold true for the general interest in 'the North' even beyond its medieval past (see Brunner 2019;Henningsen 2021).…”

Section: Medieval Scandinavian Studies-a Brief Introductionmentioning

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Medieval Scandinavian Studies—Whence, Whereto, Why

Nahl

2022

Humanities

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Medieval Scandinavian Studies started emerging as a discipline in the 19th century, at a time when Old Norse literature had become an important source both for the reconstruction of an alleged Germanic worldview, and the substantiation of national political claims. Scholars in the early 20th century consolidated this view, and thereby even coined public ideas of a Germanic past that became influential in the reception of the Middle Ages in general. To the present day, the popular fascination with these Middle Ages thus is strongly informed by Old Norse sources, and a wealth of recent adaptations seem to perpetuate this view. However, the same sources, as well as earlier scholarship, are used by extremist groups to substantiate populist and racist claims. Scholars in Medieval Scandinavian Studies find themselves at the intersection of these conflicting and yet connected spheres of appropriation. Their task to take a stance in this situation is all the more challenging as the international field struggles with cutbacks of budgets, study programs, and institutes. The present special issue seeks to bring together current opinions on this ambivalent state.

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Section: Medieval Scandinavian Studies-a Brief Introductionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Medieval Scandinavian Studies—Whence, Whereto, Why

Nahl

2022

Humanities

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“…Neopaganism has its appeal in Poland and Russia and there is a sense that its appeal is also growing in the region (Anczyk, 2016;Tomasiewicz, 2020). Given the known historical link between neopaganism and the Nazi regime in Germany and elsewhere (Baxa, 2006;François, 2023;Schuppener, 2022), it is intuitive to expect that modern switches to subversive narratives will show connections with modern polarization and radicalization in voting.…”

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You'll never walk alone: Loneliness, religion, and politico‐economic transformation

Tubadji

2023

Politics & Policy

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The rise of subversive religious beliefs has been recently documented as related to the politico‐economic radicalization of places that feel left behind. When is the traditional local religious institution so socio‐economically inefficient in providing hope for “not walking alone” to become substituted by subversive religious beliefs on the market for hope? This article suggests a detailed methodology, linking micro and macro levels, that starts from the quantification of the individual gain from religion as a source for well‐being by providing the feeling of “not walking alone.” This micro gain is next used: (i) to evaluate a religious institution in terms of the social welfare that it generates, and (ii) to monitor this religious institution for losing its market to subversive religious beliefs, related to radical politico‐economic transformations. To illustrate this methodology, I analyze the socio‐economic efficiency of the Church of England as a predictive tool for the Brexit vote.Related ArticlesGainous, Jason, and Bill Radunovich. 2008. “Religion and Core Values: A Reformulation of the Funnel of Causality.” Politics & Policy 33(1): 154–80. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747‐1346.2005.tb00213.x.Giugni, Marco, and Maria T. Grasso. 2016. “How Civil Society Actors Responded to the Economic Crisis: The Interaction of Material Deprivation and Perceptions of Political Opportunity Structures.” Politics & Policy 44(3): 447–72. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/polp.12157/abstract.Temple, Luke, Maria T. Grasso, Barbara Buraczynska, Sotirios Karampampas, and Patrick English. 2016. “Neoliberal Narrative in Times of Economic Crisis: A Political Claims Analysis of the U.K. Press, 2007–14.” Politics & Policy 44(3): 553–76. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12161.

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“…One example was the WAR/BATTLE scenario enactment by German far-right wing groups who linked the pandemic-CS with the symbolism of the former German Empire , by flying the imperial war ensign at "anti-Corona dictatorship" rallies in violent protests in front of the parliament building in Berlin (Die Welt, 30 and 31 August 2020; Frankfurter Rundschau, 5 September 2020). The ensign in question has a long history of use by anti-Republican, Nazi and neo-Nazi groups, including the so-called "Reichsbürger" ('citizens of the Empire') groups (Schuppener 2022). For them it provided a platform to 'nationalize' the COVID-19 CS.…”

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Permacrisis, Conspiracy Stories and Metaphors

Musolff

2023

Tertium

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Conspiracy stories (also known as ‘conspiracy theories’) pretend to provide truthful and unambiguous responses to crisis experiences and thrive in conjunction with the latter: the more crises, the more conspiracies! Hence, it is no surprise that the recent, extended and multi-level crises have been accompanied by a cacophony of ‘trending’ stories that see conspiracies behind, e.g. COVID-19, climate change, migration, economic stagnation and military conflicts. These conspiracy stories link up with global master-conspiracies (e.g. Great Reset, QAnon) as well as with localised violent protests based on conspiracy stories at national or regional levels. Despite their oft-lamented factual and logical deficiencies, conspiracy stories have two important assets. One asset is their narrative structure that presents a ‘solution’ to the narrative ‘problem’, which is identified with the topical crisis. They tell a supposedly secret back-story that ‘explains’ the current crisis and, based on it, provide a glimpse of an innovative solution. Their second asset is their figurative, non-literal formulation in terms of metaphor scenarios and metonymies, which enables users to mentally cancel part of their stories when they are exposed as untrue, and thus to maintain the story as a whole. The article provides a corpus-based analysis of metaphor use in conspiracy stories about COVID-19 in the UK, America and Germany. It explains their function and sketches perspectives for further research. It also discusses the chances of “reframing” metaphor-enhanced conspiracy stories during (perma-)crises and argues that such an endeavour must not restrict itself to fact-checks and -corrections. Instead, the narrative appeal of conspiracy stories, based on their figurative structure, needs to be taken into account, in order to expose their potentially disastrous political and social consequences

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The Germanic Tribes, the Gods and the German Far Right Today

Cited by 3 publications

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Medieval Scandinavian Studies—Whence, Whereto, Why

Medieval Scandinavian Studies—Whence, Whereto, Why

You'll never walk alone: Loneliness, religion, and politico‐economic transformation

Permacrisis, Conspiracy Stories and Metaphors

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