Challenging fascist spatial claims

Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization

“…Operating at the fault lines of neoliberal urban governance and austerity politics (Beveridge and Koch, 2021; Förtner et al, 2021; Mullis, 2021), such territorializations seek to amplify and cement authoritarian, nativist, and white supremacist ideologies (Dinas et al, 2013; Ellinas and Lamprianou, 2017; Rosellini, 2019; Skenderovic, 2007; Whiteley et al, 2021) while also establishing locales that serve to reinforce collective far-right subjectivities (for a further discussion, see Autor:innenkollektiv Terra-R, 2024). Previous research on everyday geographies of the far-right has shown how imagined territorialized collectives are engendered in practices of territorial domination, for example, in attempts to violently curtail the presence of “Others” in urban spaces (e.g., Brink Pinto and Pries, 2019; Gassner, 2022; Schwarz, 2022). These “spaces of fear” are the most prominent example of such territorial spring-boards for revanchist subject formation.…”

Anti‐Fascist Action and the Transversal Territorialities of Militant Anti‐Fascism in 1990s Britain

“…In particular, a number of writings on anti‐fascism engage with the spatial strategies of solidarity, through which place‐based struggles are translated and reinterpreted through online and offline networks to other contexts, both transnationally and translocally (Featherstone 2013; Merrill and Pries 2019). Although the over‐arching moniker antifa may refer to “a transnational movement” (Copsey 2018:244), place weighs heavily on cultures and legacies of anti‐fascist movements as they develop over time (Brink Pinto and Pries 2019; Wahlström 2010). Anti‐fascism is therefore a movement that operates unevenly and fluctuates according to local conditions, political cultures, and outward connectedness to wider anti‐fascist and leftist movements.…”

“…A range of scholars have argued persuasively that it is necessary to study past anti‐fascist struggles in order to support, and inform academic understandings of, contemporary ones (e.g. Bray 2017; Brink Pinto and Pries 2019). This timeliness is accentuated by a relative dearth of research in geography concerning anti‐fascism (Ince 2019), despite a clear need for “moving beyond nation‐centred and institutional accounts” of the far right and its opponents (Santamarina 2020:3) to understand how localised or extraparliamentary forms of activism can produce significant political effects.…”