Join us for the launch of the Cambridge Elements in the History and Politics of Fascism.
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The Series, edited by Antonio Costa Pinto & Federico Finchelstein, captures the most innovative methodological and theoretical perspectives, addressing fascism in terms of its varied, and sometimes combined, dimensions as an ideology, movement, and regime. The Series will also deal with anti-fascist responses, sexuality, gender, economics, culture, the connections and disconnections between fascism and populism as well as the post-fascist legacies from 1945 to the present. The series will scrutinize all attempts to refashion politics and society, based on different versions of fascism, post-fascism, and neo-fascism as well as types of anti-fascist responses to defend democracy.Â
Presented by the Race & Mobility Working Group at the Zolberg Institute for Migration and Mobility, in partnership with the History Department and the Janey Program in Latin American Studies at The New School.
The elections of Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, as well as the strengthening of the radical right globally, brought back debates of the similarities and differences between populism and fascism. This volume argues that fascism and populism are similar in so far that they constructed the people as one; understood leadership as embodiment; and performed politics of the extraordinary. They are different because there is a consensus that fascism occurred at a particular historical moment, and what came after was postfascism. There is not such an agreement to restrict populism to a historical moment. These isms also differ in the use of violence to deal with enemies, and on how they constructed their legitimacy using elections or abolishing democracy. Whereas fascism destroyed democracy and replaced elections with plebiscitary acclamation, populists promise to give power back to the people. Yet when in power the logic of populism leads to democratic erosion.
António Costa Pinto is a Professor of Politics at Lusófona University, Portugal. He has been a Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. He was a visiting professor at Stanford University, Georgetown University, a senior associate member at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a senior visiting fellow at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley.
Federico Finchelstein is Professor of History at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College. He has taught at the History Department of Brown University and he received his PhD at Cornell University. Finchelstein is Director of the Janey Program in Latin American Studies at NSSR.
Melissa Amezcua Yépiz is professor in the Department of Politics at University of Guadalajara in México, where she also coordinates the research group on Participation and Citizenship in the Observatorio PolÃtico y Electoral. She is director of the Jalisco chapter of the Mexican Political Science Association (AMECIP) and member of the international Red de Politólogas.Â
Enrique Peruzzotti is a professor in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at Torcuato Di Tella University and a researcher at CONICET. His areas of interest are civil society and democracy in Latin America. He has worked on several projects on civil society in Latin America that focused on the analysis of new forms of civic politicization, such as the emergence of a regional human rights movement and various initiatives organized around demands for accountability.
Emmanuel Guerisoli holds a PhD in sociology and history from The New School for Social Research and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility.
Previously, he studied law in Argentina and France, specializing in international criminal law and human rights, and earned a Master's degree in politics and international studies in the United States, focusing on international security and terrorism.
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