The New Right movement: community, victimhood and violence
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, my monograph Die leidende Gemeinschaft des Volkes (2025) reconstructs how the German New Right movement forms a community around shared experiences of injury and victimhood. The study combines a dense empirical reconstruction of community-building, violence and victimhood with its interpretation in terms of a theory of society. In subsequent work I examine the movement’s competing normative orders, sacralisation and collective effervescence, and the methodological and ethical problems of research in normatively charged fields.
- Die leidende Gemeinschaft des Volkes 2025
- Der Clash of Normativities als Konkurrenz zwischen Verfahrensordnungen in press
- Gemeinschaft der Empörten in der neuen rechten Bewegung 2026
- Der Verharmlosungsverdacht als Problem der Forschung zu rechter Gewalt accepted
- Die neue rechte Bewegung und das ›Volk‹ 2023