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Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History Alt/Histories
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.
1. Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History
Louie Dean Valencia-García
Part I: Rewriting the Past: The History of History and Alternate Timelines
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
S.J. Pearce
3. The Black Legend and Its Shadow: Re-writing Colonial Narratives, the Blind Spots of Racism and the Rise of Conservative Nationalisms
René Carrasco
4. The Far Right and Women’s History
Charlotte Mears
5. The Wheel That Never Ceases: Reinventions of the Spanish Second Republic for a New National Right (2004-2017)
Iker Itoiz Ciáurriz
6. The Alternative Historiography of the Alt-Right: Conservative Historical Subjectivity from the Tea Party to Trump
A.J. Bauer
7. The Extremist Construction of Identity in the Historical Narratives of Alexander Dugin’s Fourth Political Theory
Charles Robert Sullivan and Amy Fisher-Smith
Part II: The Past in the Present: History in the Public Sphere
8. The Problem of Alt-Right Medievalist White Supremacy, and Its Black Medievalist Answer
Cord J. Whitaker
9. Getting Medieval Post-Charlottesville: Medievalism and the Alt-Right
Thomas Blake
10. Dresden Will Never Be Hiroshima: Morality, the Bomb and Far-Right Empathy for the Refugee
A.K.M. Skarpelis
11. Between Past and Present: Allied Sexual Violence as a 'Usable Past' in Contemporary Italy
Stephanie De Paola
12. 'Long Live the Polarization': The Brazilian Radical Right and the Uses of the Past Under Jair Bolsonaro
Vinícius Bivar
Part III: History of the Future: Law, Science and Technology
13. Hate Groups and Greco-Roman Antiquity Online: To Rehabilitate or Reconsider?
Curtis Dozier
14. Past Continues: The Instrumentalisation of History in the Countries of Former Yugoslavia
Maja Nenadovic and Mario Mažic
15. Esoteric Fascism Online: 4chan and the Kali Yuga
Marc Tuters and the Open Intelligence Lab
16. The Rise and Fall of the Far Right in the Digital Age
Louie Dean Valencia-García
17. Transforming the Law: Canada’s Bill C-16, Gender and Post-Truth Politics
Tyler Stacy
18. 'A Large and Longstanding Body': Historical Authority in the Science of Sex
Jeffrey W. Lockhart
19. Essentially a Lie: Challenging Biological Essentialist Interpretations of Transgender Neurology
Tristan Fehr
20. The Country of the Future No More
Lauri Tähtinen
Biography
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.