Radicalising the Mainstream in Western Europe

Liriam Sponholz, a media and communication scientist, is Visiting Professor at the University of Brasília (UNB) and associated researcher at the German Center for Integration and Migration (DeZIM-Institut). Her areas of research include Political Communication, Agenda Building, Social Media, Hate Speech, and Online Mobilization.Anna-Maria Meuth, a political scientist, is a Research Fellow at the at the German Center for Integration and Migration (DeZIM-Institut). Her areas of research focus include Politics and Religion, Deliberation, Local Democracy, Migration and Biopolitics.Sabrina Zajak, a political sociologist, is Professor at the University of Bochum and Head of the Department on Conflict and Consensus at the at the German Center for Integration and Migration (DeZIM-Institut). Her research focus extends from Civil Society and Social Movements to Participation and Mobilization.Mirjam Weiberg, a political scientist, is Head of Research Group on Democracy, Transfer and Policy Advice at the at the German Center for Integration and Migration (DeZIM-Institut) and writes on Religion and Politics, Fundamentalism, Democracy and Democratization, and Peace and Conflict Studies.Stefan Berger, a historian, is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at the University of Bochum, and researches the History of Social Movements, Theory of History and History of British-German Relations.

• 1. “Driving on the Right”: The Shameless Normalization of Far-Right Discourses (Ruth Wodak).- 2.Radicalizing the Mainstream: A Research Program (Liriam Sponholz, Anna-Maria Meuth, Sabrina Zajak, Mirjam Weiberg and Stefan Berger).- 3.Beyond Western Civilizationism: Constructing Collective European Identity and the Muslim ‘Other’ on the Far Right. (Max Brunner).- 4.Agenda Setters or Agenda Surfers? The Role of the Far Right in Media Narratives on Islam (Liriam Sponholz).-5. The Transnational Link: Insights on Sociotechnical Mobilization in the Online Far Right on Facebook (Damla Keşkekci).- 6.Spreading and Preventing Anti-Muslim Narratives and Practices in Communal Space in Britain and Germany (Anna-Maria Meuth).-7.Who or What Radicalizes Whom? (Liriam Sponholz, Anna-Maria Meuth, Sabrina Zajak, Mirjam Weiberg and Stefan Berger)