FreshEd #12 - Rightwing extremism in Germany (Cynthia Miller-Idriss)

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Happy 2018. The FreshEd team is on break. We'll return in February. Please take our audience survey: http://www.FreshEdpodcast.com/survey On Sunday, Germany's social democratic party voted to enter formal talks with Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union to form a new government. It's been nearly 4 months since the Germans' voted in September. One reason Germany has had difficulty forming a governing coalition is because of the rise of extremist parties. The Alternative for Germany, a right-wing extremist party, is the third largest party in government. I thought it would be timely to replay my conversation with Cynthia Miller-Idriss. Our conversation focused on her book, The Extreme Gone Mainstream, which looks at far right youth subculture in Germany. Cynthia Miller-Idriss is Associate Professor of Education and Sociology at American University. Her book "Extreme goes Mainstream?: the Commercialization of Far Right Youth Subculture in Germany will be published by Princeton University Press in February.