DFG Network “Territorializations of the Radical Right – Appropriations of Space and Discursive Framings”

The DFG research network “Territoria­lizations of the Radical Right – Appro­priations of Space and Discursive Framings”, situated in the Depart­ment of Human Geo­graphy at TU Dresden, hran from May 2021 to August 2025. The network was initiated by Dr. Anke Schwarz (TU Dresden), Dr. Jan Simon Hutta (University of Bayreuth/TU Dresden) and Valentin Domann (HU Berlin) together with our colleague Dr. Daniel Mullis. Until 2024, 20 scientists of all academic degrees will have the oppor­tunity to produc­tively exchange and deepen their know­ledge in a conti­nuous working framework.

The net­work aimed to profile research on the radical right in German-speaking Human Geo­graphy and to properly ground theore­tically research. In particular in question was the suitability of the concept of territoria­lization, as it is developed in the Romance-language tradition, for the analysis of right-wing practices. In the network, the parti­cipating 15 scholars on the one hand examined the practices of space appro­priation by the radical right, and on the other the territoria­lizing through discursive framings through media, aca­demic research, and every­day narratives. The focus was on bringing together perspec­tives on the forms of contes­tation and negotiation of discourses, images, and practices as well as social and political structures.