Transatlantic Practices of Fascism(s) and Populism(s) from the Margins

This volume brings together leading international experts in politics, discourse, memory and culture to examine the complex entanglements of populism(s) and fascism(s) in political thought and cultural productions.

Autorentext

Reindert Dhondt is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Antwerp.

Monica Jansen is Assistant Professor of Italian Literature and Culture at the Department of Languages, Literature, and Communication (TLC) at Utrecht University.

Maria Bonaria Urban is Assistant Professor of Italian Literature and Culture at the Department of Italian Studies, University of Amsterdam, and currently serves as the Director of Studies in History at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR).

Inhalt

Introduction: Studying Interconnected Practices of Fascism(s) and Populism(s) from a Transatlantic Perspective Part 1: Genealogies 1. Fascisms and Populisms: Towards a Conceptual Refinement 2. 'Tutti i popoli sono bande': Giorgio Agamben's Populism Part 2: Practices and Discourses 3. Populist Radical Discourses on Both Sides of the Political Spectrum in Contemporary Spain: The Case of Pablo Iglesias and Santiago Abascal 4. Challenging Austerity: The Redemptive Populism of the Five Star Movement 5. Nicaragua's Anti/Authoritarian Returns: 'Us' versus 'Them' in the 2018 Protests and their Repression Part 3: Representations 6. 'Latinity' as Colonial Ideology: The Travel Writing of Italian Journalists in Mexico in the 1920s 7. 1932-1935: Antonio Berni, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and the Transnational Cultural Politics of Anti-Fascism 8. The Battlefield of Culture: Imaginaries and Cultural Politics of Nationalist and Fascist Intellectuals and Writers in Chile (1930-2000) 9. Mariana Callejas, Writer of the Chilean Dictatorship: Tensions between Femininity, Right-wing Ideology, and Infamy Part 4: Testimonies 10. "A Museum Label Is Not Enough!": Diffraction, Urban Fascist Legacy, and Participatory Artivism from Contemporary Rome 11. Writing Is a Political Act 12. Propagating 'Them' in Fascist, Imperial, Liberal and Emancipatory Politics Afterword