Alt-Right Movement : Dissecting Racism, Patriarchy and Anti-immigrant Xenophobia

253 Pages·2021·1.545 MB·English

by  Ipsita Chatterjee

IPSITA CHATTERJEE
ALT-RIGHT
MOVEMENT
Dissecting
Racism,
Patriarchy
and
Anti-immigrant
Xenophobia
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Alt-right
MoveMent

Alt-right
MoveMent
Dissecting
Racism,
Patriarchy
and
Anti-immigrant
Xenophobia
ipsita Chatterjee
Copyright © Ipsita Chatterjee, 2021
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Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Chapter 1 . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2 . Individual Freedom, Liberal Politics and the
Production of Alt-right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Chapter 3 . Heidegger, Nietzsche and the Alt-right Philosophy . . . 61
Chapter 4 . Alt-right Women and the Reconstruction of
Patriarchy and Feminism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Chapter 5 . Alt-right and Islamophobia as Disembodiment . . . . . . 128
Chapter 6 . White Fetishism, Ethno-space and
Anti-immigrant Xenophobia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Chapter 7 . Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225