Bold and original. The Management of Hate is the first book in anthropology to look closely at these milieus of radical Right youth cultures in Berlin, with implications for Germany and Europe in general. -Don Kalb, author of Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands, 1850-1950 A major accomplishment. At every turn, Shoshan wrestles with ... Read morethe question of how the most discredited ideas and sensibilities of the modern era-ideas that yielded the indelible horrors of the twentieth century-have become persuasive, compelling even, in the new century. The Management of Hate is one of the most important books published in the anthropology of Europe in more than a decade. -Douglas R. Holmes, author of Integral Europe: Fast-Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism In this startlingly original book, Nitzan Shoshan argues that violent, populist forms of nationalism are less an exception than an inherent tendency of modernity and that statecraft is increasingly directed to managing it-especially in Europe after the Cold War. Shoshan's brilliant account of this highly charged drama offers disquieting insight into the increasingly visceral, hate-filled politics of our times. -Jean Comaroff, Harvard University A brave and haunting ethnography of right-wing extremists in Germany that exposes the struggle between licit and illicit modes of nationalism in the soul of liberal democracy. This is a must-read book at a time when Europe is fighting its nationalist demons once again. -Dominic Boyer, Rice University As a study of the political self-understanding and everyday lives of young right-wing extremism in the outskirts of the former East Berlin, Shoshan's study is very much worth reading.
-John Abromeit, German Studies Review Honorable Mention for the 2017 APLA Book Prize, Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Honorable Mention for the 2017 Gregory Bateson Prize, The Society for Cultural Anthropology Winner of the 2017 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology, Society for the Anthropology of Europe of the American Anthropological Association Show Less