Alexander Harder
Biographic Data
| ID | 78348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Harder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Harder |
| SIGNATURE | HARDER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-7631-6094 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Special Issue: Digital Truth-Making: Anthropological Perspectives on Right-wing Politics and Social Media in "Post-truth" Societies
How do users of social media platforms produce, shape and share truths online? In this introduction, we outline our understanding of digital truth-making as a process that builds on the affordances of digital infrastructures to entangle information with social, cultural and emotional dynamics in a way that co-constitutes beliefs and convictions about the world. The contributions to the special issue illuminate how different variations of this pro…
Everything has changed’: Right-wing politics and experiences of transformation among German retail workers
Harder's article investigates how changes in working and living conditions are experienced by workers and how these changes create the conditions of acceptability for right-wing politics.Drawing on qualitative interviews, mappings, questionnaires and fieldwork with workers in two retail workplaces in southern and eastern Germany, it outlines processes of logistification that impact workers' routines of labour and social reproduction: that is, the…
Cultures of rejection at work: Investigating the acceptability of authoritarian populism
This article introduces the concept of cultures of rejection as a framing device to investigate conditions of acceptability of authoritarian populism among workers in Germany and Austria. After situating the concept in the current scholarly debate on right-wing populism and discussing its main theoretical points of reference, we offer an analysis focusing on experiences of crisis and transformation. Two elements of cultures of rejection are discu…
Cultures of rejection in the Covid-19 crisis
This article offers a collectively developed analysis of the Covid-19 crisis as it relates to contemporary cultures of rejection, i.e. the socio-cultural conditions in which authoritarian and right-wing populist politics thrive, in Europe. We explore how the pandemic and its management reinforces, transforms and/or overrides existing antagonisms and institutes new ones in Serbia, Croatia, Austria, Germany and Sweden. We discuss how the Covid-19 c…
Anthropologists Struggling with Neo-Nationalism and Authoritarianism: Challenges for Ethnography in Turbulent Times
Special Issue: Digital Truth-Making: Anthropological Perspectives on Right-wing Politics and Social Media in "Post-truth" Societies
How do users of social media platforms produce, shape and share truths online? In this introduction, we outline our understanding of digital truth-making as a process that builds on the affordances of digital infrastructures to entangle information with social, cultural and emotional dynamics in a way that co-constitutes beliefs and convictions about the world. The contributions to the special issue illuminate how different variations of this pro…
Everything has changed’: Right-wing politics and experiences of transformation among German retail workers
Harder's article investigates how changes in working and living conditions are experienced by workers and how these changes create the conditions of acceptability for right-wing politics.Drawing on qualitative interviews, mappings, questionnaires and fieldwork with workers in two retail workplaces in southern and eastern Germany, it outlines processes of logistification that impact workers' routines of labour and social reproduction: that is, the…
Cultures of rejection at work: Investigating the acceptability of authoritarian populism
This article introduces the concept of cultures of rejection as a framing device to investigate conditions of acceptability of authoritarian populism among workers in Germany and Austria. After situating the concept in the current scholarly debate on right-wing populism and discussing its main theoretical points of reference, we offer an analysis focusing on experiences of crisis and transformation. Two elements of cultures of rejection are discu…
Anthropologists Struggling with Neo-Nationalism and Authoritarianism: Challenges for Ethnography in Turbulent Times
Cultures of rejection in the Covid-19 crisis
This article offers a collectively developed analysis of the Covid-19 crisis as it relates to contemporary cultures of rejection, i.e. the socio-cultural conditions in which authoritarian and right-wing populist politics thrive, in Europe. We explore how the pandemic and its management reinforces, transforms and/or overrides existing antagonisms and institutes new ones in Serbia, Croatia, Austria, Germany and Sweden. We discuss how the Covid-19 c…
Everything has changed’: Right-wing politics and experiences of transformation among German retail workers
Harder's article investigates how changes in working and living conditions are experienced by workers and how these changes create the conditions of acceptability for right-wing politics.Drawing on qualitative interviews, mappings, questionnaires and fieldwork with workers in two retail workplaces in southern and eastern Germany, it outlines processes of logistification that impact workers' routines of labour and social reproduction: that is, the…
Cultures of rejection at work: Investigating the acceptability of authoritarian populism
This article introduces the concept of cultures of rejection as a framing device to investigate conditions of acceptability of authoritarian populism among workers in Germany and Austria. After situating the concept in the current scholarly debate on right-wing populism and discussing its main theoretical points of reference, we offer an analysis focusing on experiences of crisis and transformation. Two elements of cultures of rejection are discu…
Special Issue: Digital Truth-Making: Anthropological Perspectives on Right-wing Politics and Social Media in "Post-truth" Societies
How do users of social media platforms produce, shape and share truths online? In this introduction, we outline our understanding of digital truth-making as a process that builds on the affordances of digital infrastructures to entangle information with social, cultural and emotional dynamics in a way that co-constitutes beliefs and convictions about the world. The contributions to the special issue illuminate how different variations of this pro…
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