Loud and proud passion and politics in the English Defence League

The book uses interviews, informal conversations and extended observation at EDL events to critically reflect on the gap between the movement's public image and activists' own understandings of it. It details how activists construct the EDL, and themselves, as 'not racist, not violent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Pilkington, Hilary, 1964- autor (autor), Nayak, Anoop, colaborador (colaborador)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester, England : Manchester University Press 2016.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of figures
  • List of boxes
  • Series editor's foreword
  • Foreword by Anoop Nayak
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Transgressing the cordon sanitaire: understanding the English Defence League as a social movement
  • 1. The contagion of stigma: the ethics and politics of research with the 'far right'
  • 2. Tommy Robinson's barmy army: the past, present and future of the English Defence League
  • 3. Doing the hokey-cokey: everyday trajectories of activism
  • 4. 'Not racist, not violent, just no longer silent': aspirations to non-racism
  • 5. 'Their way or no way': anti-Islam and anti-Muslim sentiments
  • 6. 'Second-class citizens': reordering privilege and prejudice
  • 7. 'One big family': emotion, affect and the meaning of activism
  • 8. 'Loud and proud': piercing the politics of silencing
  • Conclusion: Passion and politics
  • Appendix 1. Observed events
  • Appendix 2. Respondent set
  • References
  • Index.