Introduction: The Enigma of Extremism
Giacomo Loperfido

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Chapter 4. The Empire and the Barbarians: Cosmological Laceration and the Social Establishment of Extremism
Giacomo Loperfido

Chapter 5. Suicide Bombing and Social Death
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Chapter 6. Retreat to the Future: The Role of Apocalyptic Thought in Current Ethno-Nationalist Extremism
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Chapter 7. Extremism as Immanence and Process: The Trump Transmutation
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Extremism, Society, and the State

Edited by Giacomo Loperfido

156 pages, Pocket Size (4.25'' x 7''), bibliog.

ISBN 978-1-80073-345-9 Pb Published (December 2021)

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Extremism does not happen in a vacuum. Rather, extremism is a relative concept that often emerges in crisis situations, taking shape within the tense and contradictory relations that tie marginal spaces, state orders, and mainstream culture. This collected volume brings together leading anthropologists and cultural analysts to offer a concise look at the narratives, symbolic, and metaphoric fields related to extremism, systematizing an approach to extremism, and placing these ideologies into historical, political, and geo-systemic contexts.

Giacomo Loperfido is an invited Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona. He has held previous positions at the University of Fort Hare, the Centre for Humanities Research, and University of the Western Cape.

Series: Volume 20, Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis

Subject: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

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BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; POL042020 POLITICAL SCIENCE/Political Ideologies/Conservatism & Liberalism; POL032000 POLITICAL SCIENCE/Essays

available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from the University of Bergen.

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Extremism, Society, and the State

Edited by Giacomo Loperfido

Series: Volume 20, Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis

Subject: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Area:

This title is published as Open Access

Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from the University of Bergen.

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Contents

Extremism, Society, and the State

Edited by Giacomo Loperfido

Series: Volume 20, Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis

Subject: Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Area:

This title is published as Open Access

Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from the University of Bergen.