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This book analyzes whether the "new debate on genetics" owes a debt
to eugenic practices by welfare democracies of 1930s and 1940s.
More specifically, the question is whether precisely the same
"eugenic rationale" used in the 1930s is philosophical akin to a
new rationality unfolding in some Western European welfare
societies that find themselves trapped in the modern dilemma of
choosing between increasing immigration and population growth that
leads to economic prosperity on the one hand, or halting
immigration, protecting national identity, and suffering economic
stagnation on the other. By analyzing, policies of integration and
assisted reproduction technology (ART) in Northern European nation
states such as Sweden, Finland, Denmark as well as in Israel, we
find a historical continuity between "old eugenics" and current
reproductive and family planning subsides and integration policies.
By focusing on the concept of welfare productionism, we trace a
continuing rationale between the eugenic policies of the past and
current investments of ART. These programs, are rationalized as
universal programs for the whole of the population. However, in
this book the authors suggest that they served the goal of
reproducing a productivist, national middle class which are enticed
to reproduce. This work will be of great interest to students and
scholars of racism, extremism, European politics, population
politics, and the social impact of science and technology.
This book analyzes whether the "new debate on genetics" owes a debt
to eugenic practices by welfare democracies of 1930s and 1940s.
More specifically, the question is whether precisely the same
"eugenic rationale" used in the 1930s is philosophical akin to a
new rationality unfolding in some Western European welfare
societies that find themselves trapped in the modern dilemma of
choosing between increasing immigration and population growth that
leads to economic prosperity on the one hand, or halting
immigration, protecting national identity, and suffering economic
stagnation on the other. By analyzing, policies of integration and
assisted reproduction technology (ART) in Northern European nation
states such as Sweden, Finland, Denmark as well as in Israel, we
find a historical continuity between "old eugenics" and current
reproductive and family planning subsides and integration policies.
By focusing on the concept of welfare productionism, we trace a
continuing rationale between the eugenic policies of the past and
current investments of ART. These programs, are rationalized as
universal programs for the whole of the population. However, in
this book the authors suggest that they served the goal of
reproducing a productivist, national middle class which are enticed
to reproduce. This work will be of great interest to students and
scholars of racism, extremism, European politics, population
politics, and the social impact of science and technology.
The Origins of Argentina's Revolution of the Right traces the
ideological roots and political impact of Argentine right-wing
nationalism as it developed in the 1930s and 1940s. In this
spirited book, Alberto Spektorowski focuses on the attempt by a new
brand of nonconformist intellectuals to shift the concept of
Argentine nationalism from its liberal incarnation to an
integralist-populist one and, simultaneously, to change Argentina's
path of development from liberalism to a "third road" of economic
autarky.Spektorowski maintains that the "third road" developed in
1930s Argentina through the juxtaposition of two apparently
opposing types of anti-liberal ideological currents: a right-wing
authoritarian current reliant upon counterrevolutionary European
sources, and an anti-imperialist, populist current. He shows that
both of these wings rejected liberal institutions, bourgeois
society, cosmopolitanism, and old-type conservatism, and became
profoundly anti-imperialist. Both defended a "pro-Axis" neutrality
during World War II, and both set the ideological stage for
Argentina's sociopolitical shift of the 1940s. Spektorowski
concludes that both of these currents produced a single nationalist
ideology that became the intellectual framework in which the
"repertoire" of political values of the 1943 military regime and
Peronism was subsequently elaborated.
The Origins of Argentina’s Revolution of the Right traces the
ideological roots and political impact of Argentine right-wing
nationalism as it developed in the 1930s and 1940s. In this
spirited book, Alberto Spektorowski focuses on the attempt by a new
brand of nonconformist intellectuals to shift the concept of
Argentine nationalism from its liberal incarnation to an
integralist-populist one and, simultaneously, to change
Argentina’s path of development from liberalism to a “third
road” of economic autarky.Spektorowski maintains that the
“third road” developed in 1930s Argentina through the
juxtaposition of two apparently opposing types of anti-liberal
ideological currents: a right-wing authoritarian current reliant
upon counterrevolutionary European sources, and an
anti-imperialist, populist current. He shows that both of these
wings rejected liberal institutions, bourgeois society,
cosmopolitanism, and old-type conservatism, and became profoundly
anti-imperialist. Both defended a “pro-Axis” neutrality during
World War II, and both set the ideological stage for Argentina’s
sociopolitical shift of the 1940s. Spektorowski concludes that both
of these currents produced a single nationalist ideology that
became the intellectual framework in which the “repertoire” of
political values of the 1943 military regime and Peronism was
subsequently elaborated.
Studies of the right and radical right have proliferated since the
rise of European nationalist and populist parties in the 1980s.
Yet, the literature on the right and the radical right has a
largely Euro-American bias and has been limited by partisan
academics that focus on the left. The Right and Radical Right in
the Americas hopes to be a pioneering work that examines the
history and contemporary manifestations of the right and radical
right throughout the Americas. From interwar Canada to contemporary
Chile, the right and radical right have come in diverse ideological
currents. Those ideological currents have undergone historical
changes and the strategies of the right and radical right need to
be contextualized in respect of country and region. The right and
radical right also have distinctive meanings throughout the
Americas and in different epochs.
The effect of Islam on Western Europe has been profound.
Spektorowski and Elfersy argue that it has transformed European
democratic values by inspiring an ultra-liberalism that now faces
an ultra-conservative backlash. Questions of what to do about
Muslim immigration, how to deal with burqas, how to deal with
gender politics, have all been influenced by western democracies’
grappling with ideas of inclusion and most recently, exclusion.
This book examines those forces and ultimately sees, not an
unbridgeable gap, but a future in which Islam and European
democracies are compatible, rich, and evolving.
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