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Far-Right Alter-Activism? the Development of (New) Far Rights Around the World
Far-Right Alter-Activism? the Development of (New) Far Rights Around the World
Abstract Submissions Closed
Thursday, 25 February 2021: 14:15-15:45
Location:
RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
At the beginning of the 2010’s decade, a series of new social movements arose around the world. With different objectives and in different contexts, they all share the claim for more social justice, dignity and democracy. New formations and political parties, new ways of understanding and to make politics appear from the creativity, subjectivity and hope of these movements. Nevertheless, at the end of the decade the outlook is quite worrying. Far-right is leading the Government of USA, Brazil, Hungary, etc, and has grown and expanded all over America and Europe. The claims for social justice have been replaced by politics against diversity, sexual freedom and gender equality. Far-right is using some of the tools and strategies of the progressive social movements. They have even formed new social movements and parties that give aid for national people. They actively and creatively reclaim their specific rights (or privileged) at demonstrations, in cultural encounters, in the local, international and digital sphere, attracting more and more people. In this session we aim to answer the following questions: which are the reasons behind taking part of this kind of collective actions? Which kind of subjectivities are being developed in these movements? Which identities are susceptible to be attracted by the alt-right discourses? Which are the similarities of these alt-rights and the post-2010 progressive social movements and the political formation and transformations born from them?
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