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SUMMARY:Triebkräfte rechter Politik – The driving forces of right-wing p
 olitics
DESCRIPTION:Economic Drivers of Contemporary Processes of Fascistization (W
 orkshop)\n(Veranstaltungssprache/Language: Englisch/English)\nOur historic
 al moment seems to resist the clarity of names. “New Right\,” “far-r
 ight extremism\,” “populism\,” “authoritarianism\,” “post-demo
 cracy”\, “late fascism” – these terms each capture certain aspects
  of our current political trajectory\, yet none fully encapsulates the tra
 nsformations underway. How should we name our present? What concepts are u
 seful to understand the contradictions that fracture the current moment? A
 nd how do we interpret the rightward shifts in the ideological and politic
 al landscapes of most capitalist societies – both in the Global North an
 d South\, at the center and periphery of the world-system? This workshop d
 oes not seek to settle on fixed labels or static categories. Rather\, it a
 ims to explore the ongoing\, unresolved processes that have not yet crysta
 llized into a stable political-ideological configuration. The processual t
 erm "fascistization" seems to be a proper starting point to capture this d
 ynamic situation.\nIn the wake of the Trump election and the early electio
 ns in Germany\, there have been debates both in the public sphere and in t
 rade unions about how economic concerns and grievances act as a key driver
  of anti-democratic attitudes – see\, for example\, the debate around th
 e buzzword "anti-fascist economics" (Isabella Weber). The workshop aims to
  discuss the hypothesis that the economic conditions experienced by worker
 s today – precarization\, informal work\, job insecurity\, impoverishmen
 t\, declining purchasing power\, and the erosion of social mobility – ar
 e crucial factors in creating a greater susceptibility to authoritarian an
 d exclusionary ideologies and fueling the processes of social fascistizati
 on. Contemporary capitalism certainly has disruptive and destructive impac
 ts on workers' material living conditions. But how do objective economic d
 ynamics and actual experiences of economic deprivation relate to subjectiv
 e and sociocultural processes of sensemaking? What narratives circulate in
  which economic problems are addressed and interpreted in right-wing popul
 ist terms? And how can we conceptualize and theorize these processes and r
 elations? By presenting case studies from both Argentina and Germany\, we 
 will bring empirical evidence to investigate these questions situatedly an
 d comparatively.\n \nPlease register: anmeldung@ifs-frankfurt.de (registr
 ation deadline on June 23)\n \nProgram\n \n10 – 10.30: Introduction\n
  \n10:30 – 12.30: Case Study I: Argentina\n\nAgustín L. Prestifilippo 
 (University of Buenos Aires): Inflation and Social Suffering: The Experien
 ce of Dispossession Among Argentine Far-Right Sympathizers\n\n \n12:30 
 – 13:30:  Lunch break\n \n1:30 – 3:30 Case Study II: Germany\n\nLeo 
 Roepert (University of Hamburg): Identity or Interest: Does Right-Wing Pop
 ulism Have Economic Causes?\nLisa Pfeifer/Marc Blüml (Institute for Socia
 l Research): Neoliberal Independence. An investigation of German Finfluenc
 ers Promises\n\n \n3:45 – 4:30 Open (comparative) discussion
URL:https://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/eventleser/triebkraefte-rechter-politi
 k-the-driving-forces-of-right-wing-politics-kopie.html
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LOCATION:Senckenberganlage 26\, 60325 Frankfurt am Main
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