Collana | Migrazioni, mobilità, sconfinamenti
Monografia | Le grammatiche del razzismo
Capitolo | Introduzione
Introduzione
Un’introduzione teorica e un percorso di ricerca
Racism has always accompanied the history of Europe, marked by nationalism, authoritarianism and state racism; however, in contemporary times we are witnessing its renewed centrality and a sort of democratic legitimacy of explicitly xenophobic political subjectivities. Persistent anti-Semitism, growing Islamophobia, the generalisation of anti-immigration and anti-refugee policies, and the consequent constitution of a galaxy of "moral entrepreneurs" of racism are the alarming symptoms of a chaotic enlargement of the space of racism. The social construction of a negative otherness, in its various forms and contents with which it is expressed, continues to represent the social mechanism par excellence of racist practices and discourses.
Racism has always accompanied the history of Europe, marked by nationalism, authoritarianism and state racism; however, in contemporary times we are witnessing its renewed centrality and a sort of democratic legitimacy of explicitly xenophobic political subjectivities. Persistent anti-Semitism, growing Islamophobia, the generalisation of anti-immigration and anti-refugee policies, and the consequent constitution of a galaxy of "moral entrepreneurs" of racism are the alarming symptoms of a chaotic enlargement of the space of racism. The social construction of a negative otherness, in its various forms and contents with which it is expressed, continues to represent the social mechanism par excellence of racist practices and discourses.
Presentato: 03 Maggio 2023 | Pubblicato: 06 Novembre 2023 | Lingua: it
Keywords Antisemitism Racism Otherness Narratives Islamophobia
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