Counter-mobilisation
Date | Presenters | Method |
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5 June: | Rasmus B., Andre D., Josefine E., Ioanna L., Santiago C. | surveys |
12 June: | Omar B., Lela E., Niclas W. | network analysis |
19 June: | NO CLASS MEETING | |
26 June: | Colombe I., Konstantin S., Jakob W., Veronika L. | ethnography |
26 June: | Maksim K., Felix S., Jon L.D., Damir S., Korbinian M. | case study |
Date | Presenters | Method |
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3 July: | Alexander V., Luis G., Oscar O., Mia C. | descriptive inference |
10 July: | Lina S., Stephen W., Philomena B., Aarón Z. | ethnography |
17 July: | Corinna Z., Eva M., and Rostislav N. | TBD |
24 July: | Sebastian K., Thomas R., Emilia Z., Florian P. | TBD |
24 July: | Lorenz F., Daniel B., Medina H. | quant. text analysis |
Date | Presenters | Method |
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15 May: | Idil M., Zeynep P., Liesl W., Selin K., Chiara W. | logistic regression |
22 May: | Gabriel W., Lina M., Florian S., Julian B. | discourse analysis |
29 May: | NO CLASS MEETING |
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polarisation - most CM activities will be directed against the target movement and vice versa, aimed at “neutralizing, confronting or discrediting its corresponding countermovement” (Zald and Useem 1987, 148)
dependency - mobilisation, and success on one side needing to be triggered by success and mobilisation on the other side, each movement thriving paradoxically on the good health of its opponent
Manicheism - us-them dynamic between opposed movements
imitation - tendency to adopt elements of the other side’s programme, tactics, etc.
Emerged in Germany in 1930s among many initiatives to oppose SA and NSDAP (e.g., Sewell 2020)
Re-emerged in post-war era
ARD series (in German): https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/die-fascho-jaegerin-der-fall-lina-e-und-seine-folgen/94838298/
ARD series (in German): https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/die-fascho-jaegerin-der-fall-lina-e-und-seine-folgen/94838298/
ARD series (in German): https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/die-fascho-jaegerin-der-fall-lina-e-und-seine-folgen/94838298/
ARD series (in German): https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/die-fascho-jaegerin-der-fall-lina-e-und-seine-folgen/94838298/
recent article: Jones, A. & Schuhmacher, N. (2023). ‘Ghostly Militanz: the Loss of Discursive Infrastructures and German Antifascist Radical Counterpublics.’ PArtecipazione e COnflitto 17(3): https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/publications/ghostly-militanz-the-loss-of-discursive-infrastructures-and-germa
In putting their “bodies on the line,” militant anti-fascists aspire to defeat fascist organizing, to de-stabilize it, and ultimately de-mobilize it. At its root, anti-fascist militancy is the promise to effect intimidation, humiliation and de-moralization upon fascists. This involves a physical commitment to “no platforming” (p. 124)
Pyrooz and Densley (2018, 233): “the history of antifa reads like a history of violence”
vs.
Bray (2017, 169): “In truth, violence represents a small though vital sliver of anti-fascist activity.”
Should state security (in Germany, elsewhere) monitor/designate antifa as extremist/terrorist?
what even is antifa? a ‘gang’ (Pyrooz and Densley 2018); a ‘group’ (LaFree 2018) (see also GTF database: https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/); a networked collective identity; a ‘tradition’ (Copsey 2017)
A Serbian antifa named Stefan waged a similar campaign on his own in 2012: When he came upon wheat-pasted posters from the fascist Serbian Action in his neighborhood of Belgrade, he immediately tore them down … and noticed them back up again an hour later. He retaliated by plastering antifa stickers all over the Serbian Action posters … only to find Serbian Action stickers in favor of “Traditional courtship in marriage” and other conservative slogans plastered on top of his stickers in response. Every day for six months Stefan battled with an anonymous fascist for control of his neighborhood. About four months into the conflict Stefan saw a guy putting up a sticker down the street as he got off the bus. The two locked eyes but Stefan wasn’t sure if this was his nemesis. In any event, Stefan persisted, and eventually the Serbian Action propaganda ceased to appear. He simply outlasted them.
p121: The street art campaigns, whether posters or graffiti, ultimately serve to designate space as antifascist (Creasap 2016; Gerbaudo 2013; Waldner and Dobratz 2013). An antifascist tag or sticker in a dive bar signifies the space as welcoming to activists and hostile to fascists. Antifa posters or stickers on lamp posts or walls in a community show that at minimum there is an active militant antifascist group operating in the area.
Vysotsky, S. (2020). American Antifa: The tactics, culture, and practice of militant antifascism. Routledge.
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