Vita
Maik Fielitz is researcher at the IFSH. He studied political science, history and peace and conflict research at the Universities of Jena, Marburg and Athens. He is completing his PhD at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Since 2018, he has been an Early Career Research Fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR). Before joining the IFSH, he worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Democracy and Civil Society in Jena.
Research Profile | Current Projects
Maik Fielitz works for the Pandora project and deals with extremist narratives and their dissemination via social media platforms. Beyond, he studies social movements, digital cultures, radicalization and far-right extremism from a transnational and comparative perspective. His doctoral thesis deals with the rise of the extreme right in Greece in the context of the crisis.
Selected Publications
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Fielitz, Maik,
Nick Thurston,
ed.
2019.
Post-Digital Cultures of the Far Right. Online Actions and Offline Consequences in Europe and the US.
Political Science. Bielefeld: Transcript. -
Fielitz, Maik. 2019.
From indignation to power. The genesis of the Independent Greeks.
In: Radical Right Movement Parties in Europe, edited by Manuela Caiani, Ondřej Císař, 97-113. Abingdon: Routledge. -
Fielitz, Maik,
Julia Ebner,
Jakob Guhl,
Matthias Quent. 2018.
Hassliebe. Muslimfeindlichkeit, Islamismus und die Spirale der gesellschaftlichen Polarisierung.
Forschungsbericht. Jena: Institut für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft.
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Fielitz, Maik,
Julia Ebner,
Jakob Guhl,
Matthias Quent. 2018.
Loving Hate. Anti-Muslim Extremism, Radical Islamism and the Spiral of Polarization.
Research Report. Jena: Institut für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft. -
Ahmad, Aisha-Nusrat,
Maik Fielitz,
Johanna Leinius,
Gianna Magdalena Schlichte,
ed.
2018.
Knowledge, Normativity and Power in Academia: Critical Interventions.
Normative Orders 24. Frankfurt am Main: Campus. -
Fielitz, Maik,
Laura Lotte Laloire,
ed.
2016.
Trouble on the Far Right. Contemporary Right-Wing Strategies and Practices in Europe.
Edition Politik 39. Bielefeld: transcript.