Facing the Blue Wall
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: We travelled to Halle, the university city on the river Saale and – as some people claim (not the people of Magdeburg) – the largest city in the state of Saxony-Anhalt. On Sunday, the state votes for a new parliament, and as everyone knows, the result could hand legislative and executive power in a German state to the far right for the first time in the country’s post-war history. Their stated aim: to “liberate German scholarship and restore it to itself through fundamental reforms.” How are the people who would be most directly affected by that? The people who live, work, study and do research in Halle? We met a few of them.
Authors: Maximilian Steinbeis, Janos Richter
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7208722722