📢New article in JBS! 📗"Race, Blood, and Soil: Viscount Lymington and Britain's Homegrown Agrarian Fascism," by Kian Aspinall Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Kian Aspinall
@caan2.bsky.social
Writing on racial capitalism and fascism. Reader of WEB Du Bois, Cedric J. Robinson, Sylvia Wynter and the histories of fascism and race. PhD @ WSU, postdoc @cambridgesociology ☘️
I’ll say it again: Matthew Goodwin is, to an extent, the product of an academic field that is dedicated to the study of racists but routinely refuses to seriously or deeply engage with other academic work on race.
Latest article on neoliberal fascism, race, gender and borders. We are pleased with it! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The ‘hidden roots’ of neoliberal fascism: race, gender and the intensification of neoliberal hegemony
With the rise of authoritarian figures such as Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, Marine Le Pen and Viktor Orban, several scholars have examined the linkages between neoliberalism and contemporary fascism...
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Last article I commissioned for the neoliberalism–fascism special issue is out! The article shows how neoliberal capitalism's racial hierarchies, border regimes & patriarchal structures create the conditions for fascism to thrive. Fighting it means systemic change, not just defending liberal ideals.
The idea that our friends, relatives, neighbours and colleagues should be summarily flung out of the country by some future Tory government because they don't fit some right wing extremist's definition of "cultural coherence" should set alarm bells ringing everywhere.
Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people" (The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
Published this from my PhD recently. For those interested in black radical theory, WEB Du Bois and the historical (mis)representation of fascism: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Published this from my PhD recently. For those interested in black radical theory, WEB Du Bois and the historical (mis)representation of fascism: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...