“There is nothing to fear:” Pitfalls in the analysis of the risk of extremism in relation to socially excluded areas

• Authors: Jaroslav Šotola
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The goal of this paper is to present action research on the collapsed relations between the Roma minority and the majority population in a single location. The topic of this research emerged as the result of a request from organizations operating in socially deprived areas where the inhabitants anticipated that they might become the target of retaliatory attacks by extremists. Local organizations, along with the police and other institutions, were unable to prevent the resulting spread of panic; the goal of the qualitative research was, therefore, to uncover the mechanism through which panic emerges and spreads, and offer suggestions on how to prevent similar events in the future. The paper presents a reflexive methodology and the initial convictions of the researcher.

Keywords

EN

extremism; Roma; grounded theory

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 569-578

Dates

published

2012-10-01

online

2012-09-29

Contributors

author

Jaroslav Šotola

• Palacký University Olomouc

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s13374-012-0045-9