{"product_id":"the-white-west-fascism-unreason-and-the-paradox-of-modernity-paperback","title":"The White West: Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKader Attia\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAnselm Franke\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAna Teixeira Pinto\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTracing the relation between fascism and settler colonialism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the aftermath of World War II, the recently liberated nations in Europe were swift to resume colonial oppression abroad. On May 8, 1945, the day victory was celebrated by the Allies, the French police massacred hundreds of townspeople in S tif, leading the French editor Claude Bourdet to ask, \"Are we the Gestapo in Algeria?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Europe, what is called \"fascism,\" poet Aim  C saire argued in his famous essay \"Discourse on Colonialism,\" is just colonial violence finding its way back home. In \u003ci\u003eWhite West\u003c\/i\u003e, contributors challenge the Eurocentrism that undergirds the current concept of fascism, tackling the under-theorized relation between settler colonialism and National Socialism via the \"proto-totalitarian\" scene of colonial expansion and its racialized concept of personhood, in order to counter the antipolitical nature of a concept such as the West, and the resurgence of fascist doctrines this notion engenders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorman Ajari, Florian Cramer, Angela Dimitrakaki, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Quinsy Gario, Larne Abse Gogarty, Rose-Anne Gush, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Sven L tticken, Olivier Marboeuf, Rijin Sahakian, Nikhil Pal Singh, Fran oise Verg s, Marina Vishmidt, Giovanna Zapperi\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAna Teixeira Pinto is a writer and theorist, based in Berlin. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKader Attia is a French\/Algerian artist and the founder of La Colonie, an institution devoted to decolonial theory.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 8.25 x 5.69 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764163477792,"sku":"9783956795336","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9a79750af1a8cd230b26e80806552ac1.webp?v=1780244425","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-white-west-fascism-unreason-and-the-paradox-of-modernity-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}