 | Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History: Alt/Histories Subjects: Humanities; History; European History; American History; Contemporary History 1945-; History - Theory Method & Historiography; History of Science & Technology; Social & Cultural History; 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. Louie Dean Valencia-García is Assistant Professor of Digital History at Texas State University, has taught at Harvard University, and is founding co-chair of the Council for European Studies at Columbia University's Critical European Studies Research Network. He is Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right. |
