Description:
This book deepens our cultural and historical understanding of authoritarianism by focusing on important but often-overlooked aspects of antifascism rooted in internationalism and BIPOC resistance.
Review Quotes: "This extraordinary volume ranges over a planetary geography and deeply engages historical formations and trajectories of fascism and antifascism. The authors, writing in a variety of genres and from many fields of study, illuminate the makings of racialized violence, the role of untruths, post-truths, and ideologies, the afterlives and ongoing effects of colonial force, and the role of capital accumulation in the making of modern varieties of fascism. Every page of For Antifascist Futures forces us to face and reckon with the lacerating effects of fascist power on the body politic"--Laleh Khalili, author of Sinews of War and Trade and Time in the Shadows
"Globalizing and reframing fascisms on a world scale, this urgent and powerful volume analyzes fascism as the convergence of authoritarian state and extralegal racial nationalist violence responding to the historical and material crises of capitalism and imperialism. The collection constellates a stunning range of antifascist practices, from Black radical internationalism, anticolonial movements, and insurgencies in the Philippines, Palestine, and South Asia, and across Latin America and Africa, on the one hand, to a long history of antifascisms and racial justice movements in the U.S. and Indigenous demands for return of stolen land, on the other."--Lisa Lowe, author of The Intimacies of Four Continents
"For Antifascist Futures is a searing and necessary collection for our times. The precise and unsparing indictment of fascism--and its enduring entanglements in imperialist and capitalist expansion--is the urgent world-making project that we all need. By deftly engaging the analytic of fascism across time and geography, this constellation of intellectually & politically fierce essays narrates a simultaneously sobering and inspiring political vision of internationalist antifascism against authoritarianism. This book is a tour de force."--Harsha Walia, author of Border and Rule and Undoing Border Imperialism