ABSTRACT

In Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History: Alt/Histories, historians, sociologists, neuroscientists, lawyers, cultural critics, and literary and media scholars come together to offer an interconnected and comparative collection for understanding how contemporary far-right, neo-fascist, Alt-Right, Identitarian and New Right movements have proposed revisions and counter-narratives to accepted understandings of history, fact and narrative. The innovative essays found here bring forward urgent questions to diverse public, academic, and politically minded audiences interested in how historical understandings of race, gender, class, nationalism, religion, law, technology and the sciences have been distorted by these far-right movements. If scholars of the last twenty years, like Francis Fukuyama, believed that neoliberalism marked an 'end of history', this volume shows how the far right is effectively threatening democracy and its institutions through the dissemination of alt-facts and histories.

part I|130 pages

Rewriting the Past

chapter 2|39 pages

The Myth of the Myth of the Andalusian Paradise

The Extreme Right and the American Revision of the History and Historiography of Medieval Spain 1

chapter 3|22 pages

The Black Legend and Its Shadow

Re-writing Colonial Narratives, the Blind Spots of Racism and the Rise of Conservative Nationalisms

chapter 5|16 pages

The Wheel That Never Ceases

Reinventions of the Spanish Second Republic for a New National Right (2004–2017)

chapter 6|18 pages

The Alternative Historiography of the Alt-Right

Conservative Historical Subjectivity from the Tea Party to Trump

part II|92 pages

The Past in the Present

chapter 9|20 pages

Getting Medieval Post-Charlottesville

Medievalism and the Alt-Right

chapter 10|22 pages

Dresden Will Never Be Hiroshima

Morality, the Bomb and Far-Right Empathy for the Refugee 1

chapter 11|14 pages

Between Past and Present

Allied Sexual Violence as a ‘Usable Past’ in Contemporary Italy

chapter 12|15 pages

‘Long Live the Polarization’

The Brazilian Radical Right and the Uses of the Past under Jair Bolsonaro

part III|174 pages

History of the Future

chapter 13|19 pages

Hate Groups and Greco-Roman Antiquity Online

To Rehabilitate or Reconsider?

chapter 14|16 pages

Past Continues

The Instrumentalisation of History in the Countries of Former Yugoslavia

chapter 15|18 pages

Esoteric Fascism Online

4chan and the Kali Yuga

chapter 17|13 pages

Transforming the Law

Canada’s Bill C-16, Gender and Post-Truth Politics

chapter 18|28 pages

‘A Large and Longstanding Body’

Historical Authority in the Science of Sex 1

chapter 19|25 pages

Essentially a Lie

Challenging Biological Essentialist Interpretations of Transgender Neurology

chapter 20|11 pages

The Country of the Future No More