Reaction Formations : : The Subject of Ethnonationalism / / ed. by Joshua Branciforte, Ramsey McGlazer.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Berkeley Forum in the Humanities
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Reaction Formations --
Introduction: On the Subject of Ethnonationalism --
Part I. Psychic Economies --
1. Fascism Without Men: On the Gender Politics of the Radical Right --
2: Navigating Mass Psychology: The Political Myth of Trumpism --
3. Challenging the Outlaw Thesis: New Configurations of Sexuality, Politics, and Aesthetics --
4. The Myth of What We Can Take In: Global Migration and the “Receptive Capacity” of the Nation-State --
Part II. Ethnostates --
5. The Return to Exile: Critical Shifts in the Age of Neo-Zionism --
6. The Alt-Right: From Libertarianism to Paleolibertarianism and Beyond --
7. Nationalisms By, Against, and Beyond the Indian State --
8. Giving the Heimat a New Home: National Belonging and Ethnopluralism on the German Far Right --
Part III. Counterrevolutions and Culture --
9. Planetary Technology and Reactionary Accelerationism --
10. “The New Conservative Humanism”: Reflections on a New Ethnonational Counterrevolution --
11. Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Neocolonial Subordination: Beyond the National Question (Argentina, 2015–19) --
12. Gramsci’s Grave --
About the Contributors --
Index
Summary: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
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781531503161
9783111319292
9783111318912
9783111319254
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DOI:10.1515/9781531503161?locatt=mode:legacy
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Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Joshua Branciforte, Ramsey McGlazer.