Workshop at the Hamburg Institute for Social Research 26-28 Feburary 2025 Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Mittelweg 36, 20148 Hamburg Discrimination – in its literal sense of drawing distinctions – is at the core of right-wing politics. The demarcation of people along imagined and uneven, hierarchical lines may be its key feature, yet one particular demarcation has so far escaped scholarly attention: The inner right’s self-definition, not as a nation, race, or Volk, but as a political movement and a coherent political thought, and its answer to the question of who is part of it and who is not. This was and is a fraught question, as different actors stood in conflict over the definition of "what is right". The workshop will map and discuss these “politics of demarcation”. We are interested in the radical right’s own demarcation as a distinct political movement and particularly the interplay of self-positionings on the one hand and external attributions directed at them on the other: How, when, and why did demarcations emerge, change, and vanish? Which functions did they fulfill? What were the reactions of those entrenched in symbolic "cordons saintaires"? We want to reflect upon the empirical phenomenon of demarcation in and around the radical right and, furthermore, upon the analytical consequences of historicizing the concept of right-wing radicalism. https://www.instagram.com/p/DGidlCSo2n- Follow us also on: Telegram: https://t.me/tribes2018 Instagram: @tribes_htf Whatsapp: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VanANtXHFxOuYORkA00p