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Nationalism and the Body Politic
31,49 € |
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Verlag: | Karnac Books |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 19.12.2013 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781781812426 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 304 |
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Beschreibungen
This volume aims to question the recent revival of neo-nationalist policies in the light of what unconscious fantasies are involved in these developments. It examines both recent movements of right-wing extremism and the way in which rearticulated neo-ethnic ideas have been adopted by mainstream politicians and in mainstream public discourse. Politicians from other than the right-wing populist parties have tended to resist specific ways of talking that are considered too extremist, rather than their underlying frame of interpretation.Governments across Europe have adopted anti-immigrant and anti-Roma policies. Xenophobia and hostility towards 'others' is on the rise, along with appeals to "e;Tradition and Security"e;. 'Cultures of fear' are linked with fantasies of fusion or 'imagined sameness'. Alongside the image of the nation as a mother and/or father, Reich (1933) called attention to the fantasy of the nation as a body, echoed in Money-Kyrle's (1939) characterization of 'group hypochondria' in connection with the burning of witches and heretics; "e;The Church, and State united to it, could tolerate no foreign body within itself, and turned ferociously upon any that it found."e; To address the current political developments, the volume stresses the urgency of understanding the fantasies and affects which underpin them.