Europe's Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right

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A deeper understanding and better communication of earthquake risk has been a major challenge in geosciences for a long time. The Christian Social Union (CSU) built their election campaign around migrant juvenile ‘delinquents’, using him as an example, despite Bavaria having one of the lowest crime rates in the whole of Germany. This debate subsided when Turkey’s began the EU accession process a decade ago, but it is once again at the forefront of Greek foreign policy. There are no solutions provided to the issue presented and pained as a grim and over-arching illness of racist Europe.

Polemical and ranting in tone it is sadly representative of the offerings from the publisher Verso of late. This has meant that any duty of care previously recognised by governments regarding an equality agenda has been replaced by one that privileges the ‘values’ of the country concerned, and attempts ‘a subsumption of the minority under the majority’ (Ambalavaner Sivanandan, cited in Fekete, p. The perspective I take in this book … eschews a boxed-in, academic study of fascism, which almost invariably divorces the study of the far right from a simultaneous study of the state, and the study of fascism itself from popular and state racism.

While this point is beyond the scope of this review, it shows how difficult it is to apply labels to constantly evolving parties, which are made up of different wings and often might demonstrate internal variations between federal and local branches.

This brief discussion leads into a longer interrogation of various far-right and fascist groupings throughout the continent and what links them: Islamophobia. In addition, the patronage of the government is being given to the Veritas Institute (Institute of Truth), whose historians have sought to minimise perceptions of the role of Hungary in the killing of its Jews during the Holocaust. This has seen an expansion of transnational policing; of torture and rendition; the militarisation of the streets and the marketisation of all this under the auspices of national governments and, indeed, the EU. and above on the Richter scale which occurred since the year 1000, as shown in the smaller map in this feature.This enables her to analyse the current political conjuncture from a unique position, being both firmly in touch with developments at the level of civil society and in academia. This approach tends to be in tandem with tarring the far left and far right with the same brush via ‘horseshoe theory’: the belief that both ends of the political spectrum bend around to each other and essentially meet on a platform of extremism, particularly when neoliberalism is deemed to be under threat from both left and right. Seismic hazard data collected for this model consisted of records from more than 30,000 earthquakes with a magnitude of 3.