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Was There a Resistance Fascism?: Narratives about Falange’s Place in the Franco Regime Fascism Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Javier Rodrigo, Joan Pubill
Is it possible to identify traces of dissent or even resistance to Francoism within a single fascist party? Can there be elements of radical opposition within fascism in its long duration? This article’s discussion of this question, centered on the Spanish Falange’s case, will focus on two main topics that define the parameters of historiographical discussion of an idealized (‘authentic’, ‘pure’, ‘uncontaminated’
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The Antelope and the Lioness: Ancient Greece in the Prologue of Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia Fascism Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Pantelis Michelakis
The aim of this article is to show that readings of Riefenstahl as an artistic genius with full control over all aspects of her work have closed off more complex readings of the prologue of her film Olympia (1938). The author argues that we cannot begin to appreciate the density of this section of the film and its complex attitude toward ancient Greece without taking a closer look at the troubled collaboration
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The Classical Performances at the Temples of Agrigento and Paestum (1928–1938): From Performances of Ancient Drama to the Re-enactment of Myths and Rituals in Archeological Sites Fascism Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Sara Troiani
This article surveys and analyzes classical performances staged between 1928 and 1938 in the archeological areas of Agrigento and Paestum, and underlines similarities and differences between them to evaluate the impact of Fascist ideology on their organization. Indeed, these performances were much more concerned with staging ancient poetry recitations, pantomimes, choreographies, and parades rather
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Editorial Introduction: (Re)Living Greece and Rome: Performances of Classical Antiquity under Fascism Fascism Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Eleftheria Ioannidou
This special issue examines the use of classical antiquity within artistic, cultural, and political events under fascist regimes in the interwar period. Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany promoted the production of ancient drama, alongside forms of theater modelled on Greek antiquity, organized grand-scale classical spectacles, and deployed ancient themes and classical-looking symbols and insignia at political
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Enacting the Mythical through Architecture: Nazi Assembly Architecture as Performative Practice Fascism Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Jonathan Spellerberg
The beginning of the Third Reich saw the construction of large architectural structures to host and aesthetically frame Nazi mass events. The significance of these buildings cannot be understood without the propaganda and mass performances that constituted their contemporary frame of reception. This article discusses the Gauforum project in Weimar, constructed from 1937 until 1944. Combining an analysis
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The Living Archive: Archiving and Documenting Classical Performance during Fascism Fascism Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Giovanna Di Martino
This article discusses the practices of documentation and archiving related to classical performance in the Italian Fascist regime, and their implications for the study of fascist art and culture more widely. The first part discusses a number of institutions as the sites of Italian Fascism’s archiving of classical performance. The second part, drawing on the work of Eric Ketelaar and Amalia G. Sabiescu
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Moving Images, Moving Bodies: Greek Dance, Eugenics and Fascism Fascism Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Fiona Macintosh
At the end of the nineteenth century, under the influence of chronophotography and the arguments of the French musicologist Maurice Emmanuel, it was believed that ancient dance could be recovered for the modern world by animating the figures on ancient Greek vases. This led to a flurry of practitioners of so-called ‘Grecian’ dance across Europe, the US and the British Empire. At the beginning of the
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Mussolini’s Cesare: Propaganda, Pedagogy and the Dramatization of History Fascism Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Patricia Gaborik
This article discusses the collaboration between Benito Mussolini and Giovacchino Forzano in the writing of three historical dramas, focusing on the third text of their collaboration, Cesare, which dates to 1939. Placing this partnership within the context of Fascism’s broader theatrical programming, the essay discusses the play as a model of Fascist theater, for its imparting of Fascist ideological
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Paramilitarism in Fascism and the Radical Right: The Sixth Convention of the International Association of Comparative Fascist Studies (COMFAS) Fascism Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Paul Jackson
The sixth annual convention of the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies (COMFAS) took place from 6 to 8 October 2023 and this year was hosted by Central European University in Vienna. The event, organised by Antonio Costa Pinto alongside COMFAS Presidents Aristotle Kallis and Constantin Iordachi, fostered an important, constructive space to discuss research, both in formal panels
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Performative Mo(nu)ments: Re-enacting Classical Antiquity in the Theaters of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany Fascism Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Eleftheria Ioannidou
The forms of popular and mass theater developed in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany reached back to classical antiquity to reinvent theater as a secular rite. At first glance, the use of the theatrical medium is at odds with the classicizing monumentality that characterized the cultural expression of fascist regimes. Theatrical performances are by their very nature ephemeral events; unlike monuments
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Reinventing Romanitas: Exchanges of Classical Antiquities as Symbolic Gifts between Italy and Spain (1933–1943) Fascism Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Dimitris Plantzos, Vasileios Balaskas
Based on fresh archival research this article examines the exchange of Romanizing statuary between Italy and Spain during the ventennio fascista. Between 1933 and 1943, Italy and Spain exchanged copies of Roman statues as symbolic gestures, to substantiate their claims to a shared classical heritage of ‘imperial greatness’. Using press reports and documentary film excerpts the article reconstructs
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Spectacular Latin: The Role of the Latin Language in Political Spectacles under Italian Fascism Fascism Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse
This article explores the role of the Latin language in the context of political performance and spectacle under Italian Fascism. We investigate the different ways in which Latin words, phrases, and texts are used as visual and symbolic elements of Fascist performances and how they are staged in contemporary media coverage. Specifically, this article focuses on three case studies: first, human mosaics
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Building the European ‘New Order’: Corporatism and Dictatorship under Axis Rule Fascism Pub Date : 2023-09-07 António Costa Pinto
Military occupation is the maximum level of political intervention based on coercion, but even under Axis rule, the institutional design of dictatorships by their ‘collaborationist’ elites was influenced by different models and political families. Military occupation opened a window of opportunity for the takeover of power by different segments of authoritarian and fascist elites, and the tension and
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Creating the ‘New Fascist Man’: The Contribution of the ‘Integral Fascist’ Giorgio Alberto Chiurco to the Anthropological Revolution of the Italian Regime Fascism Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Michelangelo Borri
The creation of the Fascist New Man was one of the primary objectives of the Mussolini regime. This article aims to examine the theme by way of a specific case study of the physician and Fascist party official Giorgio Alberto Chiurco. A Fascist ‘of the first hour’ and faithful follower of Mussolini, Chiurco expressed his commitment to the project of creating a new Italian man with activity in various
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Beyond the Paranoid Style—Fascism, Radical Right and the Myth of Conspiracy: Fifth Convention of the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies (COMFAS) Fascism Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Paul Jackson
Following two years of online events, from the 14 to 16 September 2022 the fifth annual Convention of the International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies (COMFAS) took place in Florence. The title of the conference ‘Beyond the Paranoid Style: Fascism, Radical Right and the Myth of Conspiracy’ presented a framework for a wide variety of reflections that were both historically grounded and
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Editorial Introduction: Re-assessing the Metaxas Dictatorship (1936–1941)—Greek Fascism or Old-Style Authoritarianism? Fascism Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Aristotle Kallis, George Souvlis
There are few more challenging tests of fascist core-periphery topographies than the case of interwar Greece. Greece can claim no significant fascist movement in the interwar years; no significant fascist political party; and no dictatorial regime inspired by a genuinely revolutionary ultranationalist vision. In the last category, the only possible candidate, the 4th of August dictatorial regime headed
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From the ‘Nobleman’s Sword’ to the ‘Flag of the Fascist Ideals’: The Formation and Development of Ioannis Metaxas’s Intellectual Weltanschauung (1897–1941) Fascism Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Vassilios A. Bogiatzis
This article examines the ideological trajectory of Ioannis Metaxas and his intellectual Weltanschauung. It argues that he was strongly influenced by several German developments, including the Kultur vs. Zivilisation debate. Furthermore, from the 1920s he explicitly transformed key fascist ideas and drew on those of the ‘Conservative Revolution’. It shows that Metaxas addressed all key historical developments
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Genuine Fascist Theory or Non-Systematic Conceptualisations of the New Authoritarian Order?: Towards an Anatomy of Nikolaos Koumaros’s Anti-Parliamentarian Thought Fascism Pub Date : 2022-11-16 George Souvlis
This article analyses legal texts written by Nikolaos Koumaros that were foundational to the 4th of August regime in Greece. It demonstrates the regime possessed an ideology that did not differ substantially from other authoritarian regimes of the period. In particular, the choice of Koumaros as the central legal theorist of the regime can be explained by his familiarity with anti-liberal theories
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Ideological Forerunners of Metaxas's Regime: Conservative Intellectuals on Parliamentarianism’s Ruptures in the Second Hellenic Republic Fascism Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Aikaterini (Kate) Papari
Constitutional change in interwar Greece was prepared for by political figures who, overwhelmed by ongoing political and social crisis and strongly involved in intense political debates on the crisis of parliamentarianism, endorsed the disestablishment of the Second Hellenic Republic. This article focuses on conservative intellectuals influenced by German sociologists, such as Max and Alfred Weber
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International Fascism and the Allure of the ‘Third Way’ in Interwar Greece Fascism Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Aristotle Kallis
The rise and victory of Italian Fascism in the first half of the 1920s passed Greece by. Yet soon afterwards the international experience of ‘fascism’ found more receptive audiences within the prodigious dissident ‘third spaces’ where more and more mainstream Greek political actors chose to operate in the interwar period. This article explores the dynamics of the ideological and political formation
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Libido, Psychic Eugenics and Abnormality: Patriarchal Biomedical Rule and Metaxas’s Fascistoid Regime (1936–1941) Fascism Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Demetra Tzanaki
This article attempts to resituate the Greek regime of 4th of August 1936 within the wider context of interwar fascism in Europe and address it as fascist ideology and practice. It does so by pointing to the ways in which the biomedical discourse on gender and sexuality was pivotal in Ioannis Metaxas’s project in terms of playing a crucial role in normalising ideas of racial, class, sexual and gender
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What’s in a Name?: The Third Hellenic Civilisation Fascism Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Yannis Stamos
The ‘Third Hellenic Civilisation’ was the principal propaganda innovation of the 4th of August regime and the core myth underpinning its ideological hegemony. Though regularly referred to as the central ideological slogan of the regime, there are no extensive discussions of its meaning and uses. This article attempts a comprehensive analysis of the term and the ways this futural discourse was employed
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Women and Femininity under the Metaxas Regime in Greece Fascism Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Rosa Vasilaki
Authoritarian regimes place significant emphasis on gender roles as part of their ‘imagined communities’, where everyone has their place attributed through evocation of the nation’s ‘history’ and ‘mission’. By placing gender at the core of historical analysis, this article examines the antinomies related to the role of women, and the shifting perceptions of femininity, under the Metaxas regime. It
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The Classocracy League of Canada: A Fascist Form of Canadian Multiculturalism? Fascism Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Bàrbara Molas
This article recounts the neglected story of a group of radical-right intellectuals based in Montreal, who mobilized during the 1930s for the establishment of a new Canadian state. Inspired by Ukrainian ultraconservative thought, the Italian School of Elitism, and fascist corporatism, this diverse group founded an interwar movement called the Classocracy League of Canada. Their vision framed Canadian
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The Pan-Fascist Paradox: How Does a Nationalist-Minded Fascist Think Transnationally? Fascism Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Aron Brouwer
To better understand cross-border fascist solidarity, this article suggests a new conceptual framework revolving around the term ‘pan-fascism’ and its ‘paradox’. It argues that the existence or non-existence of a pan-fascist ‘paradox’ in the minds of historical fascists is a matter of optics, as it all depends on who is mobilizing the notion of fascist transnationalism. Because of such optical issues
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When the Medium Is Not the Message: Breivik, Tarrant, and the Conceptions of History of Contemporary Right-Wing Extremist Lone-Actor Terrorists Fascism Pub Date : 2022-01-21 Fredrik Wilhelmsen
While much academic effort has been devoted to exploring various aspects of right-wing extremist lone-actor terrorism, little attention has been devoted to establishing how the terrorists create meaning by locating themselves within a larger narration of history. This article tries to fill this gap, by analysing the conceptions of history and the historical narratives evoked in the manifestos that
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Debate: Decolonising Fascist Studies Fascism Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Liam Liburd, Paul Jackson
The drive to decolonise is of central importance to the study of fascism, which after all was and remains a politics rooted in specific conceptions of colonialism and race. In this article, we have invited both leading academics and early career scholars to reflect on how we might ‘decolonise’ fascist studies. Their comments approach fascism in a range of contexts, and offer reflections on how to frame
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Federalist Fascism: The New Right and the French Revolution Fascism Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Nicolai von Eggers
This article analyses the New Right’s understanding of the French Revolution. Since the most prominent intellectual of the New Right, Alain de Benoist, frames ‘Jacobinism’ as the New Right’s main enemy, the New Right may be understood as a counter-tradition to what it understands as Jacobinism. De Benoist defines Jacobinism as an ideology that makes people essentially equal and identical by means of
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A Root Which Never Grew: The Fascist Dalliances of the Maltese before the Second World War Fascism Pub Date : 2021-11-26 Mark Camilleri
Prior to the Second World War, Malta appeared vulnerable to fascist influence due to the connections between the Italian Fascist regime and Malta’s irredentist political movement, then led by Nerik Mizzi. In part this Fascist influence was present in cultural propaganda promoting irredentist ideas such as the ‘Mare Nostrum’, which Mizzi and his conservative political party, the Partito Nazionalista
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Fascism and (Transnational) Social Movements: A Reflection on Concepts and Theory in Comparative Fascist Studies Fascism Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Tomislav Dulić
Scholars have recently begun advocating for the application of social movement theory in the analysis of the rise and development of fascist political entities. While representing a welcome effort to increase the theoretical depth in the analysis of fascism, the approach remains hampered by conceptual deficiencies. The author addresses some of these by the help of a critical discussion that problematises
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Debate: Donald Trump and Fascism Studies Fascism Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Paul Nicholas Jackson
Since coming to prominence, Donald Trump’s politics has regularly been likened to fascism. Many experts within fascism studies have tried to engage with wider media and political debates on the relevance (or otherwise) of such comparisons. In the debate ‘Donald Trump and Fascism Studies’ we have invited leading academics with connections to the journal and those who are familiar with debates within
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‘The Girl Who Was Chased by Fire’: Violence and Passion in Contemporary Swedish Fascist Fiction Fascism Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Mattias Gardell
Fascism invites its adherents to be part of something greater than themselves, invoking their longing for honor and glory, passion and heroism. An important avenue for articulating its affective dimension is cultural production. This article investigates the role of violence and passion in contemporary Swedish-language fascist fiction. The protagonist is typically a young white man or woman who wakes
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Reconnecting Forward: Nasjonal Samling’s Apocalyptic Temporality as a Key to the Fascist Regime of Historicity Fascism Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Fredrik Wilhelmsen
This article analyses the conception of history or ‘regime of historicity’ structuring the ideology of the Norwegian fascist party, Nasjonal Samling (1933–1945). It highlights the value of the theory of palingenetic ultranationalism to the understanding of fascist temporality generically and specifically. Generically, because the findings show how Nasjonal Samling’s regime of historicity followed the
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Michael Tierney and the Intellectual Origins of Blueshirtism, 1920–1938 Fascism Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Seán Donnelly
The Blueshirts have been one of the most contested and extensively researched subjects in twentieth-century Irish historiography. Debate has focused principally on the extent to which the movement should be understood as a fascist organisation, or as a spontaneous counter-reaction to the domestic political instability that followed Fianna Fáil’s victory in the 1932 general election. However, strikingly
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Miguel Alonso, Alan Kramer, Javier Rodrigo, ed., Fascist Warfare, 1922–1945: Aggression, Occupation, Annihilation Fascism Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Ángel Alcalde
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Radical-Nationalist Podcasting under a Post-Fascist Condition: The Swedish Podcast Motgift Fascism Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Tomas Poletti Lundström, Markus Lundström
This article sketches fascism’s ideological morphology under a post-fascist condition. It builds empirically on three years of ethnographic studies of the radical-nationalist podcast Motgift [Antidote], disclosing that (i) fascist multivocality characterizes and feeds the rhizomic structure of Swedish radical nationalism; (ii) fascist narration locates protagonists and antagonists in driving a plot
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‘The Wife Would Put on a Nice Suit, Hat, and Possibly Gloves’: The Misogynistic Identity Politics of Anders Behring Breivik Fascism Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Fredrik Wilhelmsen
By analysing the anti-feminist and misogynistic narratives in Anders Behring Breivik’s compendium 2083: A European Declaration of Independence, this article argues that Breivik’s counterjihadist worldview can be located both as a permutation of ‘generic fascism’ and as a form of nonegalitarian ‘identity politics’. First, the article reframes and reformulates Nancy Fraser’s concept of identity politics
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Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, Marketing the Third Reich: Persuasion, Packaging and Propaganda Fascism Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Nathaniël Kunkeler
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Stéphane François, L’occultisme nazi: Entre la SS et l’ésotérisme Fascism Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Adrien Nonjon
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The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition as a Common Framework of Fascism and the Contemporary Far Right Fascism Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Tamas Dezso Ziegler
The relationship between far-right political streams and fascism is a recurring topic in scientific literature. However, we find a low number of academic publications which try to create a framework for their similarities. This article uses Zeev Sternhell’s theory of fascism as a tool to measure different interpretations of fascism and the far right. According to its basic statement, there exists an
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Skogler: Photography at the Service of Falangism (Zaragoza, July 1936) Fascism Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Diego Navarro-Bonilla, Jesús Robledano-Arillo
This article analyses the role of ‘Skogler’ (Ángel Cortés Gracia), a photographer who worked for the insurgent Falangist forces in the city of Zaragoza, the capital of Aragón, from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Skogler’s strong and early ties to the fascist movement, going back years before the war, suggest a special profile of an individual who supported the Falangist party by means of visual
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Niklas Frank, Dunkle Seele, feiges Maul: Wie absurd, komisch und skandalös sich die Deutschen beim Entnazifizieren reinwaschen Fascism Pub Date : 2021-06-24 Norman Simms,Thomas Klikauer
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Exile Dreams: Antifascist Jews, Antisemitism and the ‘Other Germany’ Fascism Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Anna Koch
This article examines the meanings antifascist German Jews invested in antifascism and highlights its role as an emotional place of belonging. The sense of belonging to a larger collective enabled antifascist Jews to hold onto their Germanness and believe in the possibility of an ‘other Germany’. While most German Jewish antifascists remained deeply invested in their home country in the 1930s, this
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‘Jewish Culture is Inseparable From the Struggle Against Reaction’: Forging an Australian Jewish Antifascist Culture in the 1940s Fascism Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Max Kaiser
In the immediate postwar period Jewish communities worldwide sought to draw political lessons from the events of the Holocaust, the rise of fascism and the Second World War. A distinctive popular Jewish left antifascist politics developed as a way of memorialising the Holocaust, struggling against antisemitism and developing anti-racist and anti-assimilationist Jewish cultures. This article looks at
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Antifascist Athletes? A Reappraisal of the 1936 Berlin Olympics Fascism Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Keith Rathbone
In Olympia, Leni Riefenstahl offered representations of idealized Aryan athletes and their democratic counterparts, including Jesse Owens. Her evocative images shaped historical memory and the historiography of the Berlin Games as either a German propaganda victory or a moment of athletic antifascist resistance. The notion of the Berlin Games populated with ‘democratic’ and ‘fascist’ athletes is largely
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‘The Antifascist Kick’: A Signifying Cultural Practice in the History of Transnational Antifascism? Fascism Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Victor Lundberg
This article is based on an empirical study of ‘the antifascist kick’ as a formative cultural practice in the history of transnational antifascism. It scopes from the 1930s and the era of opposition to classic fascism, through to the twenty-first century where antifascism encounters political processes of globalization, fragmentation, neoliberalism, and neofascism. The article discusses the ‘antifascist
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Editorial Introduction: The Global Cultures of Antifascism, 1921–2020 Fascism Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Mattie Fitch,Michael Ortiz,Nick Underwood
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‘Somehow Getting Their Own Back on Hitler’: British Antifascism and the Holocaust, 1960–1967 Fascism Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Joshua Cohen
AbstractThis article considers the extent to which the Holocaust galvanized British antifascism in the 1960s. It explores whether the genocide surfaced in Jewish antifascists’ motivations and rhetoric but goes beyond this to assess the Holocaust’s political capital in wider antifascism and anti-racism. The article considers whether political coalitions were negotiated around Holocaust memory, for example
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Pluralism at the Twilight of Franco’s Spain: Antifascist and Intersectional Practice Fascism Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Louie Dean Valencia-García
AbstractSince the late 1980s, the term ‘intersectionality’ has been used as a way to describe ways in which socially constructed categories must be considered in conjunction to better understand everyday oppression. This article presents a broad understanding of pluralism as antifascist practice, whilst studying antifascist publications in Spain during the 1970s, considering intersectional analysis
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Mare Nostrum: Italy and the Mediterranean of Ancient Rome in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Fascism Pub Date : 2019-12-17 Samuel Agbamu
AbstractThe Mediterranean has occupied a prominent role in the political imaginary of Italian Fascisms, past and present. In the 1920s to the early 1940s, Fascist Italy’s imperial project used the concept of mare nostrum – our sea – taken from the vocabulary of Roman antiquity, to anchor modern Italian imperialism within the authority of the classical past. In the postwar years, following decolonization
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Mussolini’s ‘Third Rome’, Hitler’s Third Reich and the Allure of Antiquity: Classicizing Chronopolitics as a Remedy for Unstable National Identity? Fascism Pub Date : 2019-12-17 Helen Roche
While it is generally acknowledged that fascist movements tend to glorify the national past of the country in which they arise, sometimes, fascist regimes seek to resurrect a past even more ancient, and more glorious still; the turn towards ancient Greece and Rome. This phenomenon is particularly marked in the case of the two most powerful and indisputably ‘fascist’ regimes of all: Benito Mussolini’s
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Antebellum Palingenetic Ultranationalism: The Case for including the United States in Comparative Fascist Studies Fascism Pub Date : 2019-12-17 Stefan Roel Reyes
This article examines how the Southern proslavery defense produced a distinctly proto-fascist ideology. Rather than comparing the Antebellum South to twentieth century racist regimes, this study compares Southern fascist thought to Germany's nineteenth century Volkisch movement. The author uses Roger Griffin's Palingenetic Ultranationalism to explore how the Antebellum South promoted an illiberal vision
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Viewing Rome in the Latin Literature of the Ventennio Fascista: Francesco Giammaria’s Capitolium Novum Fascism Pub Date : 2019-12-17 Nicolò Bettegazzi, Han Lamers, Bettina Reitz-Joosse
This article analyses Francesco Giammaria’s Capitolium novum, a Latin poem describing a tour of the historic centre of Rome in 1933, in its historical, architectural, and intellectual contexts. We offer a detailed analysis of three key sections of the poem, which deal with the Colosseum, the Arch of Constantine, and the Ara dei caduti fascisti respectively. We show how Giammaria’s poem responds to
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Verwicklung. Beteiligung. Unrecht: Frauen und die Ustasa-Bewegung, written by Martina Bitunjac Fascism Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Alexander Korb
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Comparative Fascist Studies and the Transnational Turn: First comfas Convention Fascism Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Nick Warmuth
Between 27 and 29 April 2018, approximately seventy academics from all over Europe met in Budapest to discuss fascism at the first comfas convention. The theme for this inaugural convention was ‘Comparative Fascist Studies and the Transnational Turn’. The International Association for Comparative Fascist Studies (comfas) was originally conceived in 2015 with the idea of creating a nonprofit and non-political
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Mussolini Predicted a Fascist Century: How Wrong Was He? Fascism Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Roger Griffin
In the entry on ‘Fascism’ published in 1932 in the Enciclopedia Italiana, Benito Mussolini made a prediction. There were, he claimed, good reasons to think that the twentieth century would be a century of ‘authority’, the ‘right’: a fascist century (un secolo fascista). However, after 1945 the many attempts by fascists to perpetuate the dreams of the 1930s have come to naught. Whatever impact they
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Wartime Nostalgia in Italy: Validating the Fatherland Fascism Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Guy Lanoue
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Italy experienced a series of crises when its precarious postwar political compromise was challenged by the effects of decades of structural corruption. The author was offered unsolicited narratives of the prewar and especially wartime Fascist period. Surprisingly, many of these stories cast Fascists and their Nazi political allies in a positive light. Here, the author
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CasaPound Italia: ‘Back to Believing. The Struggle Continues’ Fascism Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Elisabetta Cassina Wolff
This article aims to be a contribution to the ongoing debate among scholars concerning the question whether recently formed right-wing radical parties represent a new phenomenon and a break with the fascist tradition or whether they remain close to a fascist ideology. The author focuses on a specific national radical right-wing party: CasaPound Italia (cpi), founded at the beginning of this century
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Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, edited by Helen Roche and Kyriakos Demetriou Fascism Pub Date : 2018-10-17 Martijn Eickhoff
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War Veterans and Fascism in Interwar Europe, written by Ángel Alcalde Fascism Pub Date : 2018-10-17 Matthew Kott