Rethinking transformative events to understand the making of new contentious performances

Pinto, Andrés Brink; Pries, Johan

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“…As such, the watchful patience, experimentation, and temporariness of much anti‐fascist practice implants a particular spatial (and temporal) dynamic into the logics of anti‐fascism. As Brink Pinto and Pries (2017:156) note, anti‐fascism is:…”

Section: Fascism Anti‐fascism and The Civic Statementioning

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

Ince

2021

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This paper explores the significance of unorthodox territorial activisms through the study of Anti-Fascist Action (AFA), a militant anti-fascist organisation in the United Kingdom and Ireland that operated at its height between 1989 and 1996. In the literature on activist territorialities, little has been written on practices that confront other non-state territorialities. Likewise, despite a small but growing geographical literature on far right populism, anti-fascism is under-researched. Through archival materials and interviews with former activists, I argue that geographers can understand AFA's militant anti-fascism as transversal, following F elix Guattari's theorisation of the term. AFA operated beyond state-centric modes of territoriality, creating malleable pathways between different operational logics, cross-cutting state and non-state forms. Thinking transversally about territory helps to disembed epistemic and ontological framings from dominant statist logics and assumptions, opening up new ways of understanding how movements operate territorially. The paper concludes with reflections for contemporary antifascisms.

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Section: Fascism Anti‐fascism and The Civic Statementioning

confidence: 99%

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

Ince

2021

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The Power of Being Heard: How Claims Against Racism Are Constructed, Spread, and Listened to in a Hybrid Media Environment

Haavisto

2018

Racialization, Racism, and Anti-Racism in the Nordic Countries

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Translocalising and Relocalising Antifascist Struggles: From #KämpaShowan to #KämpaMalmö

Merrill

Pries

2018

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This article explores the translocal hybrid activism surrounding two demonstrations triggered by a violent altercation between antifascists and neo‐Nazis in Malmö in March 2014. It maps the appearance and spread of the hashtag that underpinned this activism: #KämpaShowan. It also considers how the hashtag was articulated, adopted and adapted by different activists in ways that led to the emergence of a new hashtag: #KämpaMalmö. It shows how the action frames foregrounded by #KämpaShowan stimulated its translocal diffusion but were also criticised by local activists who in turn tried to relocalise the energy behind the hashtag and shift its associated action frames. The article thus reveals how antifascist activists might respond to far‐right violence with social media tactics that attract broader publics and break the isolation often caused by more confrontational street politics. It also highlights how these tactics can stretch across geographical scales involving processes of relocalisation as much as translocalisation.

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Rethinking transformative events to understand the making of new contentious performances

Cited by 5 publications

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

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

The Power of Being Heard: How Claims Against Racism Are Constructed, Spread, and Listened to in a Hybrid Media Environment

Translocalising and Relocalising Antifascist Struggles: From #KämpaShowan to #KämpaMalmö

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