Fascism in the Middle East

Nationalism, Islamism, and Imagining Other Futures
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-39800-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 319 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects

Following decades of brutal campaigns against left forces, fascism in its nationalist and religious forms has been dominating Turkish, Iranian, and Arab politics for over half a century. At first, with key enemies vanquished, military generals assumed power and established some of the most terroristic totalitarian regimes in the 20th Century. It only followed that Islamist organizations then hijacked democratic movements of dissent. Now, in countries and territories where they have assumed state power, Islamist forces have surpassed all nationalist dictatorships for their utter disrespect of human lives.

Today, Islamism subordinates peoples in the Middle East. Bearing the urgency of our times,  Saladdin Bahozde problematizes all forms of fascist exclusionism in the region, while drawing attention to anti-fascist resistance and progressive alternatives there. As a critique of identitarianism and right-wing politics in the Middle East and North Africa, the work calls for a global movement, as endorsed by the peoples of the region, to go beyond nationalism and Islamism.

Zielgruppe

Academic and General

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bahozde, Saladdin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Statement

Acknowledgement

1. Abyss or Eclipse of Leftism

2. Islamism and the Geopolitical and Ideological Situation

3. The Fascist Aspects of Exclusionism in the Middle East

4. Imagining Alternatives: Inclusivity, Plurality, and Egalitarianism

5. Conclusion

References

Über Autor(innen)

Saladdin Bahozde’s other books include The Death of Home (2024), Critical Theory from the Margins (2023), Revolutionary Hope After Nihilism (2022), and Totalitarian Space and the Destruction of Aura (2019).