The denial of the 1995 genocide against Bosniaks in UN security zone Srebrenica, has continued uninterrupted for 25 years. This taken various forms and manifestations during that time; from denying extent character crimes number victims, to not accepting relevant court verdicts especially, ignoring consequences genocide. As time passes, we are beginning get impression an additional phase Srebre...

This article examines the public commemorations of battle Thermopylae held by Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn in wider context fascist appropriations classical antiquity. The discussion focuses on rhetorical and cultural mechanisms involved transforming historical event into a mythology. Drawing methodologies narrative analysis performance studies, I examine patterns ritual practices deployed ...

RECKONING WITH THE PAST? ON ILLUSORY DE-FASCISATION OF ITALY IN PERIOD TRANSFORMATION (1943-1948) This chapter discusses de-fascisation process in Italy during the systemic transformation 1943-1948. It will examine whether national reconciliation policy pursued by Alcide De Gasperi’s governments second half of 1940s contributed to emergence a societal vision Mussolini’s relatively mild dictator...

with rebirth. This, Mann claims, is an approach which does not clearly distinguish fascism from other forms of nationalism and ignores the fascist appetite for violence. While combative on definition, Mann is particularly concerned to explore who were the fascists. Too often, he suggests, social factors have been taken to be concerned with class. But while there are class components of fascist ...

episode in German history. Crude Marxist interpretations have seen Fascism and National Socialism as symptoms of a capitalist society overcome by its own contradictions. It was, the Marxists said, a last ditch attempt to save the capitalist system through authoritarianism. Others have sought to combine Marxist theory with psychoanalysis. The proponents of such theories were prominent in the Ger...

Abstract Contemporary democracy in multiple countries has been under assault from what variously called right-wing populism, authoritarian cultural majoritarianism, new nativism, nationalism, quasi-fascism, and neo-fascism. While the behaviors of several electorally legitimated leaders these have focus, their misogyny is seen as merely an incidental part personality. This article highlights cen...

dimension in depth, he suggests that an appreciation of Nazi health initiatives can help us "better understand how fascism triumphed in the first place" (p. 278). Indeed, future studies of the public reception of Nazi health initiatives may find that they made fascism more attractive-but, granted the sensitivity of health enthusiasts to public opinion and their ambivalence about potentially unp...

This paper's central concern is with signs of fascism in recent political developments in a number of European countries and the United States. It takes the reader back to earlier periods in European and American history when this same anguished question was raised. Thus a longer intellectual history of concerns about the viability of democratic systems is drawn to guide us in our current polit...