Ince, Anthony  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5279-0997
2011.
Contesting the 'authentic' community: far-right spatial strategy and everyday responses in an era of crisis.
Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization
11
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, pp. 6-26.
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Abstract
The idea that voting alone will eliminate far-right and fascist politics is fundamentally flawed. Politics takes place in the hearts and minds of people; in their streets, communities and homes. It inhabits the everyday constitution of authenticity and is partly articulated through the spatialities it produces. I illustrate this through a discussion of the recent history of British fascism’s decline and re-emergence, and its development of new spatial strategies. The British National Party’s re-branding mobilises around a particular idea of the authentic (white, British) community and subsumes into itself a dubious analysis of class divisions and interests. This re-branding can be seen as a particular form of territorialisation in the face of an increasingly fragmentary, mobile and globalised world, and is exaggerated in the wake of the global economic crisis which has had a disproportionate effect on working class communities. The struggle against the far right is in part a struggle over the spatial articulation of and claims to authenticity in differing understandings of working class values. Authenticity, I argue, is primarily a politico-discursive tool to which competing politics lay claim, perching on the ill-defined border between reality and artifice.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL) |
| Publisher: | University of Leicester and University of Essex |
| ISSN: | 1473-2866 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 30 March 2016 |
| Last Modified: | 06 May 2023 03:15 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/79472 |
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