Testing Democracy

How Alternative for Germany Crafted a Democratic Identity

April L. Reber (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
9781041124610 (ISBN)

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This book examines Germany's political party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), particularly how they test assumptions about democracy and redefine its norms. Through extensive ethnographic research with AfD members, this book reveals three methods AfD members employed: disruption of memory politics, information and narrative control, and provocative performance strategies. Ultimately, it demonstrates how seemingly mundane techniques, like words, songs, performances, and infographics, can drastically redefine democratic norms and policy. Scholars, students, and general readers across the social sciences will find this book an invaluable resource in understanding contemporary politics

April L. Reber is a political anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow at the Philipps-University Marburg, USA. She has conducted fieldwork on the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Germany.

Prologue: Preserving Liberties Through the Last Generation. Introduction: Who is Democratic? Who is Extremist? 1. A Murder, an Investigation, and a Political Party 2. Sounding Disruption for Germany’s Future 3. Crafting the Image and Telling the Story in the War on Information 4. Laughing with “Nazis” and the War on Words. Epilogue: Sardonic Redundancy and Homages to Democracy

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.5.2026
Reihe/Serie	Anthropology of Now
Zusatzinfo	13 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9781041124610 / 9781041124610
Zustand	Neuware