Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History: Alt/Histories

ISBN-13: 9781032172835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 456 str.

Louie Dean Valencia-García

Opis

In this volume, scholars ranging from historians to neuroscientists show how contemporary far-right movements have proposed revisions and counter-narratives to accepted understandings of history, fact, and narrative.

Spis treści

1. Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History  Part I: Rewriting the Past: The History of History and Alternate Timelines  2. The Myth of the Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: The Extreme Right and the American Revision of the History and Historiography of Medieval Spain  3. The Black Legend and Its Shadow: Re-writing Colonial Narratives, the Blind Spots of Racism and the Rise of Conservative Nationalisms  4. The Far Right and Women’s History  5. The Wheel That Never Ceases: Reinventions of the Spanish Second Republic for a New National Right (2004-2017)  6. The Alternative Historiography of the Alt-Right: Conservative Historical Subjectivity from the Tea Party to Trump  7. The Extremist Construction of Identity in the Historical Narratives of Alexander Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory  Part II: The Past in the Present: History in the Public Sphere  8. The Problem of Alt-Right Medievalist White Supremacy, and Its Black Medievalist Answer  9. Getting Medieval Post-Charlottesville: Medievalism and the Alt-Right  10. Dresden Will Never Be Hiroshima: Morality, the Bomb and Far-Right Empathy for the Refugee  11. Between Past and Present: Allied Sexual Violence as a 'Usable Past' in Contemporary Italy  12. 'Long Live the Polarization': The Brazilian Radical Right and the Uses of the Past Under Jair Bolsonaro  Part III: History of the Future: Law, Science and Technology  13. Hate Groups and Greco-Roman Antiquity Online: To Rehabilitate or Reconsider?  14. Past Continues: The Instrumentalisation of History in the Countries of Former Yugoslavia  15. Esoteric Fascism Online: 4chan and the Kali Yuga  16. The Rise and Fall of the Far Right in the Digital Age  17. Transforming the Law: Canada’s Bill C-16, Gender and Post-Truth Politics  18. 'A Large and Longstanding Body': Historical Authority in the Science of Sex  19. Essentially a Lie: Challenging Biological Essentialist Interpretations of Transgender Neurology  20. The Country of the Future No More

O autorze

Louie Dean Valencia-García is Assistant Professor of Digital History at Texas State University, has taught at Harvard University, and is founding co-chair of the Council for European Studies at Columbia University’s Critical European Studies Research Network. He is Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right.