The Politics of Replacement

Demographic Fears, Conspiracy Theories, and Race Wars
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-30406-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right

The Politics of Replacement explores current demographic conspiracy theories and their entanglement with different forms of racism and exclusionary politics such as sexism.

The book focuses on population replacement conspiracy theories, that is, those imaginaries and discourses centered on the idea that the national population is under threat of being overtaken or even wiped out by those considered as “alien” to the nation and that this is the result of concerted efforts by “elites”. Replacement conspiracy theories are on the rise again: from Eurabia fantasies to Renaud Camus’ The Great Replacement, white supremacist discourses are thriving and increasingly broadcasting in mainstream venues. To account for their rise and spread, this edited volume brings together research on various dimensions of population replacement conspiracy theories: different theoretical and methodological approaches, different social scientific and humanities (inter)disciplinary backgrounds, different geographical case studies (across Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, and Oceania), different time periods (medieval archives, colonial archives, Nazi archives, postcolonial migrations, post-9/11), and different forms of racialization and racisms (Islamophobia, antisemitism, racism against migrants and refugees). It also explores the entanglement of population replacement discourse with gendered violence. The book is organized into four sections: (1) exploring the historical background of the current rise of demographic conspiracy theories; (2) tracing the (neoliberal) governmentalities in and through which replacement discourse operates; (3) analyzing the particularly intense focus on the threat of Muslims in contemporary replacement conspiracy theories, and (4) investigating the connection between replacement conspiracies, gender, and violence.

This title is essential reading for scholars, journalists, and activists interested in the contemporary far right, conspiracy theories, and racisms.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bracke, Sarah

Hernández Aguilar, Luis Manuel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Politics of Replacement: From “Race Suicide” to the “Great Replacement”  PART I GENEALOGIES OF REPLACEMENT  1. Malthusian Fears in Current Migration Debates: Contemporary Manifestations of Malthusianization  2. Das Boot ist Voll, The Boat is Full: Genealogy and Policy Consequences of an Ecological-Nativist Paradigm  3. Birth Rates and the Cleansing of Impure Blood: Shaping the “Muslim Question” in the Balkans  4. “Reverse Colonization”: Early Narratives of Decline in the French New Right  5. European Histories, Australian Anxieties: The Christchurch Killer in Context  6. Ecofascism and the Politics of Replacement in the Discourse of the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM)  PART II TECHNOLOGIES OF REPLACEMENT  7. Colonial Census and Saffron Demography: The Shaping of Numerical Communities and Contestations in India  8. The Majority Oppressed? On the Legitimacy of Majority Rights  9. The Affordances of Replacement Narratives: How the White Genocide and Great Replacement Theories Converge in Poorly Moderated Online Milieus  10. Mainstreaming the Great Replacement: The Role of Centrist Discourses in the Mainstreaming of a Far-Right Conspiracy Theory  11. From Clashing Civilizations to the Replacement of Populations: The Transformation of Dutch Anti-immigration Discourse  PART III ISLAMOPHOBIA AND REPLACEMENT  12. The Body Never ‘Falls Out’ of Islamophobia  13. The Gastro-Politics of Replacement: How Imaginations of a Muslim Takeover Become ‘Real’ Through Food  14. Striving for Transparency: Mosques as Sites for Public Interrogation in Contemporary Germany  15. The Great Supersession: Racialization and Replacement in US Evangelical Islamophobia  PART IV THE GENDERED VIOLENCE OF REPLACEMENT  16. Fascism and the Violent Replacement of The People  17. “A Victory for White Life”: Reproduction, Replacement, and a Handmaid’s Tale  18. The King of Tars: A Medieval Rendition of Replacement Theories

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Bracke is Professor of Sociology of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is the principal investigator of the research project EnGendering Europe’s “Muslim Question”, funded by the Dutch Research Council.

Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar is an associate researcher at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder, Germany. He holds a PhD in sociology by the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main. His research interests focus on racism, Islamophobia and antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and the far right.