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Title Far-right revisionism and the end of history : alt/histories / edited by Louie Dean Valencia-García
Published New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 438 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge approaches to history ; 37
Routledge approaches to history ; 37.
Contents 1. Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 20. The Country of the Future No More
Summary "In Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History: Alt/Histories, historians, sociologists, neuroscientists, lawyers, cultural critics, and literary and media scholars come together to offer an interconnected and comparative collection for understanding how contemporary far-right, neo-fascist, Alt-Right, Identitarian, and New Right movements have proposed revisions and counter-narratives to accepted understandings of history, fact and narrative. The innovative essays found here bring forward urgent questions to diverse public, academic, and politically-minded audiences interested in how historical understandings of race, gender, class, nationalism, religion, law, technology and the sciences have been distorted by these far-right movements. If scholars of the last twenty years, like Francis Fukuyama, believed that neoliberalism marked an "end of history," this volume shows how the far right is effectively threatening democracy and its institutions through the dissemination of alt-facts and histories"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes 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
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Subject History -- Philosophy.
Truthfulness and falsehood.
White supremacy movements.
Right-wing extremists.
HISTORY -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 21st Century.
History -- Philosophy
Right-wing extremists
Truthfulness and falsehood
White supremacy movements
Form Electronic book
Author Valencia-García, Louie Dean, editor.
LC no. 2020002873
ISBN 9781003026433
1003026435
9781000054071
1000054071
1000053717
9781000053722
1000053725
9781000053715
Other Titles Alt/histories