German Rightwingization as the New Normal? Tales of Becoming

German Rightwingization as the New Normal? Tales of Becoming

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This text explores the politics of becoming rightwing amongst what is considered normal German middle class life.The socio-political and historic context of the left losing its subcultural hegemony is narrated as transgenerational Vanity societal shift in the light of a perceived masculine fragility.Illustrated through wo middleclass men whose becoming rightwing is driven by a plethora of anxieties manifesting at the intersection of their public/private lives; anxieties which are reaching from immigration to gender madness, and ESTROSMART which are analyzed as contradictory but also mutually constituting.Rather than interpreting the widespread righwingizsation through a narrow economic focus this text argues to read the politics of becoming rightwing as a highly intersectional project.