Reaction Formations

The Subject of Ethnonationalism

Joshua Branciforte, Ramsey McGlazer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

368 Seiten

2023
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5315-0313-0 (ISBN)

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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 “silent majority” 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 Göpffarth, Ramsey McGlazer, Benjamin Noys, Bruno Perreau, Rahul Rao, Shaul Setter, and M. Ty

Joshua Branciforte (Edited By) Joshua Branciforte is an independent scholar. He co-edited the “Queer Bonds” special issue of GLQ (17:2-3), and his work has also appeared in Modern Language Quarterly. A companion piece to his chapter in this volume appears in the Winter 2022 issue of GLQ. Ramsey McGlazer (Edited By) Ramsey McGlazer is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory, the Department of Italian Studies, and the Center for Latin American Studies. He is the author of Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress (2020), published by Fordham University Press in the Lit Z Series.

Introduction: On the Subject of Ethnonationalism

Joshua Branciforte and Ramsey McGlazer | 1

I. Psychic Economieies

1. Fascism Without Men: On the Gender Politics of the Radical Right

Joshua Branciforte | 23

2. Navigating Mass Psychology: The Political Myth of Trumpism

Chiara Bottici | 58

3. Challenging the Outlaw Thesis: New Configurations of Sexuality, Politics, and Aesthetics

Ty Blakeney | 88

4. The Myth of What We Can Take In: Global Migration and the “Receptive Capacity” of the Nation-State

M. Ty | 118

II. Ethnostates

5. The Return to Exile: Critical Shifts in the Age of Neo-Zionism

Shaul Setter | 145

6. The Alt-Right: From Libertarianism to Paleolibertarianism and Beyond

Melinda Cooper | 166

7. Nationalisms By, Against, and Beyond the Indian State

Rahul Rao | 190

8. Giving the Heimat a New Home: National Belonging and Ethnopluralism on the German Far Right

Julian Göpffarth | 207

III. Counterrevolutions and Culture

9. Planetary Technology and Reactionary Accelerationism

Benjamin Noys | 241

10. “The New Conservative Humanism”: Reflections on a New Ethnonational Counterrevolution

Bruno Perreau | 263

11. Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Neocolonial Subordination:

Beyond the National Question (Argentina, 2015–2019)

Gisela Catanzaro | 297

12. Gramsci’s Grave

Ramsey McGlazer | 324

About the Contributors | 349

Index | 353

Erscheinungsdatum	06.06.2023
Reihe/Serie	Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
Co-Autor	Tyler Blakeney, Chiara Bottici, Joshua Branciforte
Zusatzinfo	20 b/w illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-5315-0313-6 / 1531503136
ISBN-13	978-1-5315-0313-0 / 9781531503130
Zustand	Neuware