JAI Lecture Series: The Fate of Democracy in a Radicalizing World

The Fate of Democracy in a Radicalizing World

OCT 15, 2024, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM,   PAKHUIS DE ZWIJGER, PIET HEINKADE 179, AMSTERDAM

“What would it take to ensure that everyone feels at home in the country where they live? Who gets to claim membership in, or ownership of, imagined and real territories? Can homelands help us better understand the rise of the far right and its move from the fringes to the mainstream?” 

We live in a destabilizing world where, increasingly, the version of reality that our neighbors and family members perceive is potentially very different from the one we experience: maybe even radically so. And it is radicalism itself—particularly on the political far-right—that has watchdogs and citizens nervous. Societies around the world are rife with extremism and polarization, and some in the U.S. fear that January 6th was merely a harbinger for something far more serious and widespread.

In her book Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right, Cynthia Miller-Idriss demonstrates how the far-right radicals of tomorrow are being recruited in surprising places as well as the effects this has on our democracies. From college campuses to online chatrooms, and from mixed martial arts gyms to the comments sections of YouTube cooking videos, her work examines the paths people—often young and vulnerable—walk as they are drawn deeper into the heart of hateful movements.

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