Extremism, Society, and the State: Crisis, Radicalization, and the Conundrum of the Center and the Extremes

by Giacomo Loperfido (Editor)

Overview

Extremism does not happen in a vacuum. Rather, extremism is a relative concept that often emerges in crisis situations, taking shape within the tense and contradictory relations that tie marginal spaces, state orders, and mainstream culture. This collected volume brings together leading anthropologists and cultural analysts to offer a concise look at the narratives, symbolic, and metaphoric fields related to extremism, systematizing an approach to extremism, and placing these ideologies into historical, political, and geo-systemic contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800733459
Publisher:	Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/10/2021
Series:	Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis , #20
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 4.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Giacomo Loperfido is an invited Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona. He has held previous positions at the University of Fort Hare, the Centre for Humanities Research, and University of the Western Cape.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: The Enigma of Extremism
Giacomo Loperfido

Chapter 1. Getting Ready for the Dark Ages? Preppers, Populists and Climate Prophets: The Disintegration of Global Hegemony, PC Hysteria, and the Deplorable Ugliness of Decline
Kajsa Ekholm Friedman and Jonathan Friedman

Chapter 2. Are We All Extremists Now?
Agnieszka Pasieka

Chapter 3. How Boko Haram’s ‘Liminal’ Child Witches and Child Soldiers Challenge the Capitalist State: An Animist Critique of Neo-libealism’s Ideology of Extremism
Caroline Ifeka

Chapter 4. The Empire and the Barbarians: Cosmological Laceration and the Social Establishment of Extremism
Giacomo Loperfido

Chapter 5. Suicide Bombing and Social Death
Rohan Bastin

Chapter 6. Retreat to the Future: The Role of Apocalyptic Thought in Current Ethno-Nationalist Extremism
Andrew F. Wilson

Chapter 7. Extremism as Immanence and Process: The Trump Transmutation
Roland Kapferer and Bruce Kapferer