Dear All,
On behalf of two of our members, I am posting a Call for Abstracts for a AAA session to be submitted through the Society of Anthropology of Europe. Please contact the organizers directly if you are interested.
Nicolette Makovicky (Chair, SAE)
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Session at the AAA Annual Meeting
Washington, DC, Nov 29-Dec. 3, 2017
The growing support for extreme right wing movements and authoritarianism in the United States and Europe has caused apprehension among political analysts and scholars. Anthropologists have a unique opportunity to make a difference and have a direct impact on understanding these events of grave importance in the U.S. and abroad. The support for these movements has occurred even in well-established, formerly stable democracies. Curiously, such supporters often sacrifice their own economic and social best interests in elections to achieve ideological goals. Anthropologists have long been interested in this phenomenon, and David Kertzer, in Ritual, Politics and Power (1988) developed salient theoretical explanations for such voters, incorporating, among other sources, his own research in Italy.
This panel of anthropologists working in Europe addresses these concerns based on recent fieldwork or historical research. A number of questions will be addressed: 1) What motivates such support? 2) Is this support something new, or is a cyclical process at work? 3) If cyclical, can existing or new theoretical explanations be derived from the process? 4) Are these movements and their supporters increasingly becoming a threat to democracy? 5) Have effective countermeasures minimized such a threat?
Discussants from North America will use this data to analyze current developments in the United States.
Please contact one of the organizers if you are interested in participating:
Katherine Donahue, Plymouth State University: [log in to unmask]
Patricia Heck, Sewanee: The University of the South: [log in to unmask]
The deadline for abstracts is March 15. Please contact us before then. Thank you.
Dr. Nicolette Makovicky
Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies
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