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Everyday Fascism in Contemporary Japan
This dissertation uses the concept of fascism in order to examine the socio-culture of contemporary Japan. Defined in terms of its commodity structure, fascism turns out to be a relevant concept to Japan not only prior to and during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945) but also from the postwar days to …
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Disorder: Contemporary Fascism and the Crisis in Mental Health
… psychology, emotions, and politics. In analyzing Fascism, philosophers such as Erich Fromm, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Michel Foucault, focused on the social nature of psychology, and they also went a step further in connecting this analysis to the psychological “costs” of capitalism, up …
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Education, Fascism, and the Catholic Church in Franco's Spain
<p>Societies in transition are vulnerable to strong forces for political change. When Franco's fascist government defeated the socialist party that had taken control from 1931 to 1936, it aligned itself with Spain's Catholic Church. For most of Spain's history, the established Church culture had …
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Indian Political Thought and Germany's Fascism, ca. 1918-1950
… in part through its significance for German fascism. It differs from other works on ‘global fascism’ in that it decentres ‘fascism’ as a concept but traces themes that emerge in its global context: the idea of ‘the people’, race, caste, and sovereign spaces. The point of departure is India’s …
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The (Re)emergence of eco-fascism : white-nationalism, sacrifice, and proto-fascism in the circulation of digital rhetoric in the ecological far-right.
… thread sparked the largest discussion of eco-fascism ever. Fascists on the platform Telegram espouse the belief fascism is inherently natural. By studying the rhetorical techniques and appeals of eco-fascist digital rhetoric, this thesis adds to an emerging conversation regarding the …
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The sacralization of time : contemporary affinities between crisis and fascism
This thesis investigates how crisis relates to fascism by taking into account the role of desire and salvation in response to a situation of crisis. This thesis argues that, in desiring salvation, human experience of time, as crisis, resolves itself into two forms of fascism - ideological and …
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Myth and respectability in Swedish and Dutch fascism, 1931-40
The focus of this thesis is on the process of myth-making (mythopoeia) in the Dutch National Socialist Movement (NSB) and the Swedish National Socialist Workers’ Party (NSAP), using a cultural pragmatic approach to analyse the practicalities and implementation of mythopoeia comparatively. A variety …
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Italian Australians, the church, war and fascism in Melbourne, 1919-1945
There is no doubt that the Irish have played a major part in Australian Catholic Church history, but I question the notion that they have been the only contributor to the Australian Catholic Church in Australia. Numerous Australian Catholic Church histories fail to acknowledge the Italian …
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Rebuilding a Culture: Studies in Italian Music after Fascism, 1943-1953
… with topics such as the collective memory of fascism, internationalism, anti-fascist reaction, the appropriation of serialist aesthetics, the nature of Italian modernism in the ‘aftermath’, the Italian realist/formalist debates, the contradictory politics of musical ‘commitment’, and the …
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Thomas Carlyle, Fascism, and Frederick: From Victorian Prophet to Fascist Ideologue
… significantly due in part to his link to fascism. In the politically polarized era of the Second World War, academics and propagandists dubbed him a fascist or Nazi in both defamation and approval. Fascist scholars pressed Carlyle into service as a progenitor and prophet of their …
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Exploring anti-fascism in Britain through autobiography from 1930 to 1936.
… Jewish community to be a united front against fascism. It goes on to observe how each of the autobiographies explain their clashes with the authorities and how their campaigning worked out in practice. Finally, chapter four highlights the authors’ recollections of the Battle of Cable Street and …
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The Foundations of Aleksandr Dugin's Geopolitics: Montage Fascism and Eurasianism as Blowback
<p>This thesis is an examination of Aleksandr Dugin's <em>The Foundations of Geopolitics</em>, of which I have translated important sections into English and these are included as an appendix. Despite the importance of <em>Foundations of Geopolitics</em> to Russian strategic thought there has not …
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Virility and Defeat: Masculinities in Italy between Fascism and the Sexual Revolution
<p>This is the history of how masculinity evolved in a postfascist western European country. Militaristic virility was a core tenet of fascist Italy. World War Two weakened it profoundly, as men’s and women’s conceptions of their own sexual identities were fundamentally reshaped by violence and …
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The development of Fascism in the United States from 1929 to 1938.
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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From “Total Destruction” to “Total Dictatorship”: The Influence of Ernst Jünger’s Visionary Fascism
… to create his influential vision of German fascism? What were Jünger’s interactions and exchanges with other European fascists, as well as influential Nazis including Carl Schmitt, Joseph Goebbels, and Adolph Hitler himself? How did Jünger’s new Fascist politics and aesthetics affect them? I …
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The fascist Jesus : Ernest Renan's Vie de Jesus and the theological origins of fascism.
… Vie and his other writings, I propose that fascism was not the result of an excess of irrationality, but rather an excess of Modern rationalism resulting from the late Medieval and early modern rejection of the ancient mystical epistemology and ontology expressed in both Socratic philosophy …
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