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When democracy is deemed vulnerable : preventing far-right extremism by curbing Roma “criminality and social pathologies” in the Czech Republic
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Shanaah, Sadi (2023) When democracy is deemed vulnerable : preventing far-right extremism by curbing Roma “criminality and social pathologies” in the Czech Republic. In: Heath-Kelly, Charlotte and Gruber, Barbara, (eds.) Vulnerability: Governing the social through security politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526169372
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Abstract
This chapter explores a unique configuration of vulnerability and minority themes in the context of counter-extremism policy in the Czech Republic. Unlike in the West, where vulnerability refers to individual susceptibility to violent radicalisation, the Czech official counter-extremism documents frame the liberal democratic political system as vulnerable. Yet, while Muslim minorities in the West are deemed to produce individuals vulnerable to radicalisation, the threat to liberal democracy in the Czech Republic is framed (within Czech counter-extremism documents) as coming from the majority population. This extremism, it is feared, could capitalise on the ‘social pathologies’ of the Roma minority and mobilise the public against them, and the liberal democratic state. The chapter also briefly explores the situation in Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland to highlight the reasons for the uniqueness of the Czech case. The analysis in this chapter draws on the Czech official documents dealing with the fight against extremism and interviews conducted with current and former state officials and experts in the region.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JZ International relations | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | Manchester University Press | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Manchester | ||||||
ISBN: | 9781526169372 | ||||||
Book Title: | Vulnerability: Governing the social through security politics | ||||||
Editor: | Heath-Kelly, Charlotte and Gruber, Barbara | ||||||
Official Date: | June 2023 | ||||||
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Number of Pages: | 272 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | The definitive, peer-reviewed and edited version of this chapter is published in: Shanaah, Sadi (2023) When democracy is deemed vulnerable : preventing far-right extremism by curbing Roma “criminality and social pathologies” in the Czech Republic. In: Heath-Kelly, Charlotte and Gruber, Barbara, (eds.) Vulnerability: Governing the social through security politics. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526169372 https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526169372/ ©2023 Author(s). Published by Manchester University Press. | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 19 August 2022 | ||||||
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