Reaction Formations (eBook)

The Subject of Ethnonationalism

Joshua Branciforte, Ramsey McGlazer (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2023
368 Seiten
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5315-0316-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Today, an international new right has coalesced. Variously described as nativist, right-populist, alt-right, and neofascist, far-right movements in many countries have achieved electoral victories that not long ago seemed highly improbable. They have also developed a new cultural politics. Adapting tactics from the left, the new right has moved from decorum to transgression; from conservative propriety to the frank sexualization of political figures and positions; from appealing to the conscious normalcy of the "e;silent majority"e; to recasting itself as a protest movement of and for the aggrieved. These movements share a mandate for robust nationalism, yet they also cultivate a striking international solidarity. Who is the subject of this ethnonationalism? Many new right movements have in fact intensified or laid bare long-standing tendencies, but this volume seeks to address aspects of their cultural politics that raise new and urgent questions. How should we assess the new right s disconcerting appropriations of strategies of minoritarian resistance? How can we practice critique in the face of adversaries who claim to practice a critique of their own? How do apparently post-normative versions of nationalism give rise to heightened forms of militarism, incarceration, censorship, and inequality? How should we understand the temporality of ethnonationalism, which combines a romance with archaic tradition, an ethos of disruption driven by tech futurism frequently tinged with accelerationist pathos, and a kitschy nostalgia for a hazily defined recent past, when things were greater than they are now? Surveying nationalisms from Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Israel-Palestine, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Reaction Formations gives a critical account of contemporary ethnonationalist cultural politics, while drawing out counterstrategies for anti-fascist resistance.Contributors: Tyler Blakeney, Chiara Bottici, Joshua Branciforte, Gisela Catanzaro, Melinda Cooper, Julian Gopffarth, Ramsey McGlazer, Benjamin Noys, Bruno Perreau, Rahul Rao, Shaul Setter, and M. Ty

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.7.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
• Reihe/Serie: Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
• Co-Autor: Chiara Bottici, Joshua Branciforte, Gisela Catanzaro, Melinda Cooper, Ramsey McGlazer, Benjamin Noys, Rahul Rao, Shaul Setter, M. Ty
• Zusatzinfo: 20 b/w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: critique • Cultural Politics • ethnonationalism • Fascism • Gender and Sexuality • Ideology • Nationalism • neofascism • Neoliberalism • the alt-right
• ISBN-10: 1-5315-0316-0 / 1531503160
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5315-0316-1 / 9781531503161