Binding: Paperback
Description: This book is based on the premise that understanding fascism is crucial for defeating it. Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements suggests fascism must be understood according to two dimensions. First fascism is a social movement seeking power always already connected to sources of power. Hence fascism cannot be defeated by policing it as a crime problem nor therapeutically treating it as a pathology of mental health. Second fascists have cognitive and emotional needs they are seeking to fulfill through their participation in the movement but the presence of these motivations must be held in tension with the fact that fascists are responsible for their choices and that these individual motivations also exist in a wider social context of capitalism and systems of supremacy. The book opens by examining some psychological elements of recruitment and disengagement from fascist movements before addressing broader social narratives concluding with the limitations of an approach that is grounded in the national security state that relies on individualized perpetrator - centered interventions. Rejecting centrist paradigms that see fascism as extremism or accelerationism Braune argues that fascism must be addressed in its specificity and uniqueness as an ideology and movement. Ultimately she argues fascism can only be defeated by countervailing social movements that not only demand radical social change but offer alternative spaces of belonging community care and the search for meaning. Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements is a philosophical contribution to antifascist theory and practice that will be appreciated by academics students and activists concerned about fascism today.
Title: Understanding And Countering Fascist Movements From Void To Hope
Author(s): Braune Joan (Gonzaga University Washington Usa)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367696986
Pages: 144 Pages
Publication Date: 12/22/2023
Series: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
Category: Fascism & Nazism