LEADER 04163cam a2200421Ia 4500001 136047 005 20240621182508.0 008 080116s2006 xx rb 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)ocn277001370 035 136047 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 JC481 |b.L583 2006 100 1 Little, William A. |q(William Alexander), |d1963- 245 10 Toward a minor history of neofascism and hate in a postfascist society / |cby William A. Little. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2006. 300 x, 291 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2006. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-291). 520 This dissertation examines the repertoire of governmental responses to neofascism and hate in post-World War II Europe and North America, focusing on the way in which they are problematized within the contexts of democratic political behaviour, free and restricted speech, criminality, and multicultural relations. Materials examined include academic literatures, state commissioned reports, media coverage, court cases, remedial programs for hate offenders and autobiographical materials. Governmental responses are marred by a series of impasses that demonstrate the constitutive inability of postwar authorities to respond to the political element at the core of neofascism and hate. Attempts to address them as pathological social phenomena or simply as criminal or legally actionable forms of speech and behaviour fail to recognize their properly political force. In particular the neofascist problem reveals the limits of, and what occurs at the limits of, the technological mode of government, the biopolitical administration of life, and the sovereign structure of political community. This phenomenon has been the uncanny product of postfascist society, a society whose ethico-political structure revolves around the express prevention of the return of Fascism in its various guises. It institutionalizes and naturalizes the cut produced by Fascism's exclusion from legitimate politics, inadvertently creating the conditions for neofascist revivals that exploit the discontents of this process. To initiate the critical thought necessary to prepare a way out of the impasses of postfascist politics---to begin to think what it would mean to live in a non-fascist as opposed to a postfascist society---I present a minor analysis of the lines of transformation that animate the relationship between postfascism and neofascism. This analysis reveals the diabolical properties of the emerging politics of the exception, a politics with clear analogues in the current 'war on terror', in which the distinction between Fascism and liberal democracy becomes increasingly difficult to sustain. It also reveals a line of becoming that indicates the possibility of embracing a truly nonfascist sociality. The pathway beyond fascism does not and cannot pass through the repertoire of postfascist solutions but only through a singular assemblage of revolutionary forces that would have as their effect a non-fascist form of life. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2007. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Fascism |zEurope |xHistory. 650 0 Fascism |zNorth America |xHistory. 651 0 Europe |xPolitics and government |y1945- 651 0 North America |xPolitics and government |y20th century. 651 0 Europe |xHistory |y20th century. 651 0 North America |xHistory |y20th century. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1273129361&sid=10&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib136047/NR14777.pdf |z Hosted by USHMM. 852 0 |bstacks |hJC481 |i.L583 2006 852 |bwww 852 |bebook