INTERVIEW
HATE AND EXTREMISM
VOL. 10, NO. 3, PGS. 1–10

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How Fear, Amnesia, and Legitimation Make Far-Right Ideas Mainstream
A conversation with Ruth Wodak

Ruth Wodak, FAcSS, is Emerita Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies at Lancaster University and University Professor i.R. at the University of Vienna. A past-President of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, she is the author of The Politics of Fear: The Shameless Normalization of Far-Right Discourse.

To what extent are societies susceptible to xenophobic and racist narratives? What social, economic, cultural, or psychological factors shape this susceptibility?

Although I am neither a socio-psychologist nor a political scientist, I can make some suggestions in response to your difficult question.

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