Transatlantic Practices of Fascism(s) and Populism(s) from the Margins The Cultural Politics of “Us” versus “Them”

Introduction: Studying Interconnected Practices of Fascism(s) and Populism(s) from a Transatlantic Perspective
Reindert Dhondt, Monica Jansen, and Maria Bonaria Urban

Part 1: Genealogies

1. Fascisms and Populisms: Towards a Conceptual Refinement
Carlos de la Torre

2. ‘Tutti i popoli sono bande’: Giorgio Agamben’s Populism
Joost de Bloois

Part 2: Practices and Discourses

3. Populist Radical Discourses on Both Sides of the Political Spectrum in Contemporary Spain: The Case of Pablo Iglesias and Santiago Abascal
Ricardo Connett

4. Challenging Austerity: The Redemptive Populism of the Five Star Movement
Simon Cecchin Birk

5. Nicaragua’s Anti/Authoritarian Returns: ‘Us’ versus ‘Them’ in the 2018 Protests and their Repression
Julienne Weegels

Part 3: Representations

6. ‘Latinity’ as Colonial Ideology: The Travel Writing of Italian Journalists in Mexico in the 1920s
Stefano Tedeschi

7. 1932-1935: Antonio Berni, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and the Transnational Cultural Politics of Anti-Fascism
Laura Moure Cecchini

8. The Battlefield of Culture: Imaginaries and Cultural Politics of Nationalist and Fascist Intellectuals and Writers in Chile (1930-2000)
Benjamin Loy

9. Mariana Callejas, Writer of the Chilean Dictatorship: Tensions between Femininity, Right-wing Ideology, and Infamy
Karen Genschow

Part 4: Testimonies

10. “A Museum Label Is Not Enough!”: Diffraction, Urban Fascist Legacy, and Participatory Artivism from Contemporary Rome
Isabella Pinto

11. Writing Is a Political Act
Giovanni Dozzini

12. Propagating ‘Them’ in Fascist, Imperial, Liberal and Emancipatory Politics
Jonas Staal

Afterword
Federico Finchelstein

Biography

Reindert Dhondt is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature at the University of Antwerp.

Monica Jansen is Assistant Professor of Italian Literature and Culture at the Department of Languages, Literature, and Communication (TLC) at Utrecht University.

Maria Bonaria Urban is Assistant Professor of Italian Literature and Culture at the Department of Italian Studies, University of Amsterdam, and currently serves as the Director of Studies in History at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR).

"Transatlantic Practices of Fascism(s) and Populism(s) from the Margins is an essential and original collection of essays that examine authoritarian states and populist parties in a transatlantic framework. It broadens and complicates the ways we view the production and circulation of ‘Us’ versus ‘Them’ ideologies that are crucial to the democracy destruction playbook."
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History and Italian Studies, New York University

“A brilliant and timely contribution to the debate over contemporary populist movements of the left and right, which too often remains shackled to the unsurpassable reference point of Nazi Germany. This invaluable, expertly edited, interdisciplinary collection uncovers the historical and ideational connections and transnational cultural practices suffusing the underexplored ‘Latin space’ of southern Europe and Latin America, incubator of modern-day populism. An indispensable guide for anyone seeking to understand—or resist—the trends threatening to transform our age from a postfascist to a prefascist era.”

Max Paul Friedman, Professor of History and International Relations, American University, Washington D.C