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 Goepffarth,
Ramsey McGlazer, Benjamin Noys, Bruno Perreau, Rahul Rao, Shaul
Setter, and M. Ty
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