In the Land of the Setting Sun:: Reflections on ‘Islamization’ and ‘Patriotic Europeanism’

Nicholas Paul De Genova

In the Land of the Setting Sun: Reflections on ‘Islamization’ and ‘Patriotic Europeanism’

Nicholas Paul De Genova

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The rapid rise of Pegida (Patriotische Europäer Gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes) in late 2014/ early 2015 commands sober attention. Contempt for migrants and asylum-seekers, generally, and for Muslims in particular — accompanied by the obligatory panic-mongering over Europe’s purported “Islamization” — is the standard cant of far-right populism across Europe and in no sense unique to Germany. Nonetheless, the diminishing reticence about a more or less overt embrace of Nazism — especially in Germany — seems to signal an unprecedented level of toxicity in contemporary Europe. Alongside the more customary expressions of far-right German nationalism and neo-Nazism, moreover, what is particularly noteworthy and distinctive about Pegida is its explicit and emphatic “Europeanism.” As a new expression of the postcolonial racial politics of “European” identity, therefore, Pegida represents a political formation that commands urgent and serious critical scrutiny.

Original language	English
Journal	Movements: Journal für kritische Migrations- und Grenzregimeforschung
Volume	1
Issue number	2
Publication status	Published - 2015

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In the Land of the Setting Sun: Reflections on ‘Islamization’ and ‘Patriotic Europeanism’

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