{"id":23082,"date":"2026-01-14T15:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citcem.org\/eventos\/call-for-papers-do-fascismo-ao-neofascismo\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:34:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:34:05","slug":"call-for-papers-do-fascismo-ao-neofascismo","status":"publish","type":"eventos","link":"https:\/\/citcem.org\/en\/events\/call-for-papers-do-fascismo-ao-neofascismo\/","title":{"rendered":"From Fascism to Neo-Fascism?"},"content":{"rendered":"

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
\nApril 27-28, 2026, FLUP<\/p>\n

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From Fascism to Neo-Fascism? (Dis)Continuities between Classical Fascism and the Extreme Right of the 21st Century<\/strong><\/p>\n

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There is an ongoing debate about the political, ideological and social nature of the contemporary far right, especially that which is active in the 21st century. The academic debate, in this case more than others, closely follows the public debate on political developments that are perceived as having dramatic consequences for the future. A large number of explanations have been proposed and a wide range of concepts offered, applicable to specific cases, whether national or regional, or to the global phenomenon itself – because, and this is important, it is a global phenomenon we are dealing with. Just like fascism a hundred years ago. Researchers are almost always forced to take a position on the question of continuities (Finchelstein, 2019; Palheta, 2022) and discontinuities (Forti, 2024) between, on the one hand, classical fascism (1922-1945) and what were at that time other ultra-reactionary phenomena that, in the interwar period, became by-products of fascism through the process of fascization and, on the other hand, the new forms adopted by the extreme right since 1945 and, above all, since the turn of the 20th century into the 21st century. In the name of the urgency of a scientific approach to what seems to be the most serious crisis of liberal systems since the 1930s, we intend at this congress to discuss how the new far right of the 21st century positions itself in relation to the legacy of classical fascism, because “we need to explain the continuity between historical fascism and contemporary right-wing populism as a radicalization of post-liberal politics based on the erosion of democratic participation and the emergence of a new politics of fear” (Woodley, 2010).<\/p>\n

In line with this position, the congress will also host studies on anti-fascist political cultures, starting with those that emerged in reaction to the fascist wave of the 1930s and its political success (Kallis, 2015). The aim here is to provide space for studies on the various forms of resistance to fascism. Anti-fascism is also a transnational movement (Traverso, 2004) and did not lose its political effectiveness in 1945, nor did it become a community of memory of a past encapsulated in time. It has resurfaced over the last 80 years whenever the extreme right has made a strong comeback. As is the case today.<\/p>\n

To this end, the congress will welcome proposals for articles and panels in the following possible areas:<\/p>\n

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  1. Fascism(s), neo-fascism, extreme right, reaction and modernity. Concepts and theory.<\/li>\n
  2. The nation, the West, white supremacy: a hundred years of far-right worldviews.<\/li>\n
  3. Hypermasculinity, anti-feminism and misogyny: social reproduction and fascism.<\/li>\n
  4. One hundred years of far-right political culture: continuities, discontinuities, adaptation, networks.<\/li>\n
  5. Fascism, neo-fascism and the other(s): specificities of the political articulation of xenophobia and racism by fascism and the global far right.<\/li>\n
  6. Party, state, movements, militias, social welfare, associations. The organizational dimension of the far right.<\/li>\n
  7. Violence, war and genocide: the extreme right and political action.<\/li>\n
  8. Fascism and crisis: context and causality of far-right impulses in history.<\/li>\n
  9. Antifascism as a transnational political culture: resisting fascism, preserving democracy, rebuilding democracy, from the 1920s to the 2020s. Intersections with anti-colonialism, anti-racism and feminism.<\/li>\n
  10. Neo-fascism, extreme right and anti-fascism in collective memory: uses of the past, memory, “cultural war” and political action.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    FLUP, Main Amphitheater, Meeting Rooms 1 and 2
    \nPeople, Markets and Policies (CITCEM Research Group)<\/p>\n

    Organizing Committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n