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from Part I - Making the ‘Other’ – The Construction of ‘Otherness’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 November 2020
The chapter focuses on the processes of political differentiation as triggered by the refugee crisis of 2015. It maps them on an empirical level by studying the reactions of major political actors in the Czech Republic. Furthermore, the chapter abstracts a general theory of political differentiation, i.e. political 'othering'. It shows how the degree of differentiation can be approximated to a strong anti-liberal position mirroring the dichotomy between friend and foe. Outcomes of the differentiation processes are confronted with selected principles of modern constitutionalism, i.e. the principles of human dignity and democratic governance, that are endangered by the persistence of an extreme degree of hostile group differentiation.
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