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SUMMARY:Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday\, 09th of October 2017  Dr D
 ouglas Holmes – University of Binghamton\, State University of New York
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DESCRIPTION:\nSocial Anthropology Seminar\n\nMonday\, 9th October 2017\n\
 nDr Douglas Holmes – University of Binghamton (New York)\n\nFascism at E
 ye-Level\n\nSince early 2014 I have begun to refer openly to the extremi
 sm emerging around us as fascism\, as fascism of and in our time\, a fas
 cism that has distinctive contemporary features that are not fully nor n
 ecessarily congruent with its historical manifestations.  Over the cours
 e of three decades I have observed the accretion of political agendas th
 at we term—far too simplistically—the “extreme right\,” “the nationalist
  right\,” or “the populist right” to yield a contemporary fascism: a fas
 cism enacted in our midst at “at eye-level.”\nIf what we are encounterin
 g is indeed fascism then we are confronted with one overriding question:
  How and why have the most discredited ideas and sensibilities of the mo
 dern era—ideas that yielded the indelible horrors of the twentieth centu
 ry—become persuasive\, compelling even\, in the new century?\n\nI take t
 he position that it is not their alien nature that makes the ideas that 
 animate contemporary configurations of fascism “dangerous\,” but rather 
 their proximity to conventional\, indeed glorified\, values that underwr
 ite the European intellectual tradition.  I also argue that anthropologi
 cal modes of thought are implicated\, fully implicated\, in the story.  
 Thus my research is not solely about the anthropology of fascism\, but a
 lso an inquiry into the “anthropology” that operates within fascism: How
  an illiberal philosophy—predicated on the strident discrimination of cu
 ltural affinity and difference is inspiring a wide ranging political ins
 urgency across Europe.  At eye-level fascism is emphatically future-orie
 nted—manifest in deeply held convictions concerning the nature of human 
 collectivities that are aligned with distinctive understandings of indiv
 iduals’ capacities to think\, feel\, experience\, and act.\n\nG.030 / 31
 \n\nGround Floor\,  Arthur Lewis Building\n4:15 – 6:00pm \n\n(Tea and co
 ffee available outside the room from 4:00pm)\n\nALL WELCOME!
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LOCATION:Ground Floor - G.030 / 31\, Arthur Lewis Building\, Manchester
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