Radicalization and De-Radicalization as Processes and the Role of the State

Session Submission Type: Virtual Created Panel

Session Description

The recent violent attacks in various countries around the world show that radicalization continues to rise and assumes a variety of forms in tandem with the rise of populist right-wing politics. The Capitol Riot in the US, anti-vaccination and anti-lockdown protests in several European countries, and increasingly manifest collaboration of the incumbent governments with right-wing extremists against the left-liberal opposition suggest a few examples. These developments emphasize the need for questioning conventional approaches to radicalization, which misses the relationship between the radical movements and the state actors. This panel brings together papers that analyze the recent cases of radicalization, considering the role of the state as a facilitator for the evolution of contemporary right-wing radicalism. It departs from an understanding of the evolution of radicalization along an injustice-grievance-alienation-polarisation (I-GAP) - a term at the heart of the Horizon 2020-funded D.Rad: Deradicalisation in Europe and Beyond: Detect, Resolve, Reintegrate.

Sub Unit

• Partner Associations / International Political Science Association

Individual Presentations

• Can We Still Trust the State? - Doga Atalay, Glasgow Caledonian University; Umut Korkut, Glasgow Caledonian University

• Ontological Discomfort Online: Anti-Lockdown Protests During COVID-19 - Bogdan Ianosev, Glasgow Caledonian University; Ozge Ozduzen, Brunel University London

• Hegemony and Limits of Consensus Democracy: Swedish Critics - Emilia Palonen, University of Helsinki; Annika Björnsdotter Teppo, Uppsala University

• How To Be an Anti-Migrant: Ontological Security Threatened by the Others - Stevan Tatalovic

Chair

• Umut Korkut Glasgow Caledonian University

Discussant

• Tarik Basbugoglu Glasgow Caledonian University