{"product_id":"understanding-and-countering-fascist-movements-9780367696986","title":"Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is based on the premise that understanding fascism is crucial for defeating it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderstanding and Countering Fascist Movements\u003c\/i\u003e suggests fascism must be understood according to two âœdimensions.â First, fascism is a social movement seeking power, always already connected to sources of power. Hence, fascism cannot be defeated by policing it as a crime problem, nor therapeutically treating it as a pathology of mental health. Second, fascists have cognitive and emotional needs they are seeking to fulfill through their participation in the movement, but the presence of these motivations must be held in tension with the fact that fascists are responsible for their choices and that these individual motivations also exist in a wider social context of capitalism and systems of supremacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book opens by examining some psychological elements of recruitment and disengagement from fascist movements, before addressing broader social narratives, concluding with the \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Joan Braune is delving into the socio-psychological roots of the fascist crisis and is helping us rebuild an empathetic, passionate, and vital social movement to protect our communities. This is an absolutely essential intervention that locates hope as a necessary weapon in the fight to stop the far right.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShane Burley\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eeditor of\u003c\/i\u003e \"No Pasaran: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis\" \u003ci\u003eand author of \u003c\/i\u003e\"Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘In a political climate where fascism and the far right, once seen as historical outliers, are on the rise and becoming increasingly mainstream, the terms used for them are being problematically applied and contested, and responses to them are largely top-down, security orientated and privilege perpetrators, Joan Braune’s \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding and Countering Fascist Movements\u003c\/i\u003e is a much needed intervention. The book is underpinned by philosophical insight, community engagement, activist experience, and anti-racist and anti-fascist principles and objectives. By doing so, it provides both an understanding of and response to fascism, and an important contribution to both the literature and fight. I highly recommend this book to scholars, students, and activists, as well as others trying to counter such movements.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAaron Winter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Senior Lecturer in Sociology (Race and Anti-Racism), Lancaster University, UK; author of \u003c\/i\u003e\"Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream\" \u003ci\u003eand editor of \u003c\/i\u003e\"Researching the Far Right: Theory, Method and Practice\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1.Void and Idol 2. Destruction and Rebirth 3. Steve Bannon’s Kali-Yuga 4. Limitations of the “Countering Extremism” Model Conclusion: From Void to Hope\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018026516823,"sku":"9780367696986","price":27.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367696986.jpg?v=1750775398","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/understanding-and-countering-fascist-movements-9780367696986","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}