By the early twenty-first century neo-nationalist forces have
established themselves in a number of the world's large regions and
subcontinents. From Australia to South Asia, in Eastern and Western
Europe, comparable parties and movements have positioned themselves
in national parliaments and governments, with some considerable
impact on state power. In contrast to right-wing extremist parties
in the past, these recent movements mostly operate within legal
parliamentary channels, using essentialized notions of local
culture to mobilize against real and alleged threats to local
identities of status, gender, religion, nationhood and ethnicity.
Prompted by this near-simultaneous rise to political influence of
more than a dozen apparently similar parties across Western Europe,
this collection offers a range of European case studies with
selected global examples, such as the Front National, the late Pim
Fortuyn, India and the BJP, and Pauline Hanson and her One Nation
Party in Australia. It takes up the theoretical and methodological
challenges posed by this phenomenon and asks what distinctive
contributions anthropology might make to its study. Andre Gingrich
is Full Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of
Vienna. Recent publications include Anthropology, by Comparison
(co-edited with Richard G. Fox, 2002) and One Discipline, Four
Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology: The Halle
lectures (co-authored with Frederik Barth, Robert Parkin and Sydel
Silverman, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). Marcus Banks
is Professor of Visual Anthropology at the University of Oxford,
and author of Organizing Jainism in India and England (Clarendon
Press, 1992); Ethnicity: Anthropological Constructions (Routledge,
1996) and Visual Methods in Social Research (Sage, 2001), as well
as numerous journal articles and book contributions.
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