Autoři: Jamela Homeyer, Julia Leser, Tobias Neidel, Florian Spissinger

This paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork to analyse the ‘master narrative of resistance’ that is governing the activities of the German far right. The ‘resistance narrative’ came into effect during the 2018 Chemnitz riots. Yet the topos is being appropriated by a variety of actors on the far right. The paper exemplifies the significance of far-right political narratives and affects on current developments and tendencies of German far-right groups, among them far-right initiatives such as Pro Chemnitz, far-right protest movements such as PEGIDA, and the German spin-off of the French yellow vests’ movement. When analysing these groups’ uses of narrative and affective elements in terms of the ‘resistance topos,’ the paper elaborates the semantics, performances, and functions of a narrative that seems to constitute a common denominator of distinct groups and agents of the far right. In 2018 and 2019, we followed in particular the developments in the wake of the Chemnitz racist riots using ethnographic methods and conducted participant observations and conversations with various agents of the far right that share the ideological aspects of nationalism, xenophobia, authoritarianism, and welfare chauvinism. A constant practising, performing, and narrating of the ‘resistance topos’ enables activists on the far right to frame their cause, collective actions, and their (individual and group) identities in a particular manner. We argue that the ‘resistance narrative’ has to be understood as a part of the far right’s politics of affective attachment, attunement, and belonging that aims at furthering their social acceptability.

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