For a non-exceptionalist spatial theory of far-right mobilizations

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Terra-R, Autor*innenkollektiv:
For a non-exceptionalist spatial theory of far-right mobilizations.
In: Antipode Online. (2024) .

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Abstract

In societies across the globe, there is a disturbing yet familiar trend to frame and respond to ongoing planetary crises in nationalistic, paranoid, exclusionary, and authoritarian ways. What Alexander Reid Ross (2017) once called a “fascist creep” has by now accelerated into a march that appears to flourish under conditions of protracted political crisis and widening social inequalities. From a spatially informed point of view, the daily reproduction and political regulation of far-right mobilizations happens not in a void but in concrete spaces and, as such, continues to produce far-right geographies. Amid conditions of acute uncertainty for many, the socio-spatial imaginaries, practices, and affects that constitute, stabilize, or fail to undo such far-right geographies deserve special attention. In this contribution to the Symposium on far-right world-building and world-breaking, we therefore propose to approach these contemporary phenomena through the lens of territorialization. If one seeks to deconstruct the geographies of regressive politics, and foster emancipatory platforms and antifascist world-building, it is beneficial to do so from an explicitly territorial perspective—one that is informed by Latin American and Anglophone debates, as our forthcoming book illustrates (Autor*innenkollektiv Terra-R 2025).