Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies

Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies

Goal and target group
Fascism is an internationally oriented English-language Open Access e-journal that seeks to provide the burgeoning international field of research into fascism and extremism with a forum that is not restricted by national borders, nor by expertise. It is directed towards a wide audience of interested fellow specialists, geared towards informing policy-makers and social workers, and to engage students. Fascism is peer reviewed.

Frequency
Fascism will be published twice a year, in March and September. The first issue will be published in September 2011. Each issue will contain 4 to 5 articles and consists of approximately 125 pages.

Editorial Office
Chief editor: Dr Madelon de Keizer (NIOD)
Consultant editor: Roger Griffin (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Managing editor: Marjo Bakker (NIOD)

Editorial board
- Remieg Aerts
- Mark Antliff
- Emily Braun
- Stefan Breuer
- Francesco Cassata
- Nigel Copsey
- Bruno De Wever
- Ruth Ben-Ghiat
- Constantin Iordachi
- Aristotle Kallis
- Wim van Meurs
- Sven Reichardt
- Peter Romijn
- Marjan Schwegman
- Anton Shekhovtsov
- James Shields
- Zeev Sternhell
- Andreas Umland

Information for authors
Article, abstract and keywords
Each article is written in English, consists of approximately 8000 words and should include an abstract and keywords. Abstracts should be no more than 150 words, written in English, which clearly defines the article’s thesis. Keywords are a list of three to eight words that classify the article. Keywords can include names of historical actors, places, sources used, concepts, or any other term that would be useful in electronic searches for the article.

Copyright
The copyright of the articles will stay with the author(s). Authors are recommend to use the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. With this license the licensor (the author(s)) ‘permits others to copy, distribute, display and perform the work, as well as make derivative works based on it’, except for commercial use.
The rights to the title of the journal will equally be shared by the NIOD and Brill.

Automated submission
The publisher deploys the online article submission system Editorial Manager (Aries Systems Corporation, USA). This system allows candidate authors to submit their article to the journal, and manages all subsequent steps like selection, peer review, adjustments and formal acceptance. The system reports on progress of each step of the article flow to the authors, the managing editor and the production editor. More information on how to submit your contribution will follow.

Platform/Hosting
The Journal will be hosted at the publisher’s section on the platform of IngentaConnect and on the publisher’s branded version of that platform.

CfA: Kreisau-Fellows of the George Bell Institute

Call for Applications

Fellowship Program of the George Bell Institute (Chichester, UK), Kreisau Foundation for Mutual Understanding (Krzyżowa, PL), supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Stuttgart, DE)

The Kreisau-Fellows of the George Bell Institute

The Kreisau Fellows of the George Bell Institute are a network of writers, scholars, researchers and artists from Central and Eastern Europe. The Fellowship promotes difference and diversity as essential to the creative ties between generations and minds in the pursuit of understanding and justice. The Kreisau Fellows are dedicated to providing a broader context for ideas and projects based on the perception of the individual as the driving force of social and cultural change.

Deadline: January 15th, 2011

'For us post-war Europe is less a question of frontiers and soldiers, of top-heavy organisations and grandiose plans, than the question as to how the image of man can be re-established in the hearts of our fellow citizens.' Helmuth James von Moltke, 1942

'I insist, once again, on the significance of persons.' George Bell, 1943

'Never forget your humanity, and respect human dignity in your dealings with others.' Robert Bosch

Profile of the Kreisau Fellows:

Helmuth James von Moltke and his friends shared with their British ally George Bell a profound belief in the vision of the individual. They saw that the prospects of civilization itself could depend upon men and women whose creative convictions might present an alternative to accepted conventions and established institutions. Moreover, both Moltke and Bell affirmed the fundamental importance of circles of friendship which might reach across boundaries of any kind to sustain creative life and thought. Robert Bosch, too, saw that such ideals must be maintained in the conditions of everyday life and he sought to advance them in the broad context of his own work. Accordingly, the moral worlds of the lawyer, the bishop and the entrepreneur shared a striking courage, conviction and eloquence in response to the dangers of dictatorship and war.

Accordingly we are looking for candidates who possess a creative commitment which responds to the distinctive spirit which was shown by Bell, Bosch and Moltke:

1. The Kreisau Fellows are individuals with excellent intellectual achievements to their names within the humanities and the fields of natural and social sciences. More specifically they may be engaged in working in such diverse disciplines as translation, literature, physics, medicine, theatre, art, music and acting. What unites them is a vision that is both distinctive and creative, a shared commitment to their own societies and a belief in the forging of international relationships.

2. A Kreisau Fellowship enables a candidate to either realize or continue his/her professional goals in his/her own country while at the same time bringing them into an international community. The Fellowship ensures a relative independence from the existing socio-economic and political conditions and provides a (sympathetic) lasting international framework in which their commitments are recognised, encouraged and promoted. The scholarship is not paid in monthly rates, but is attached to specific projects or research costs.

3. The Fellows are expected to contribute to the international programme of the Kreisau Foundation and to spend their sabbatical in Kreisau within the first two years after receiving the financial support.

4. The candidates should come from CEE countries.

5. The communication language of the programme is English.

Selection criteria:
- A completed arts or academic degree and some work experience. The Fellowship Network aims at a mix of people of different ages.
- A willingness to participate in the international network in the period of financial support as well as beyond that specified period.
- An interest in and willingness to conduct part of the proposed project in Kreisau itself (for example in the form of a sabbatical) and a commitment to contribute to the programme locally.

Selection procedure:
- Candidates can apply or be proposed by the partners of the Kreisau Fellowships Programme (Robert Bosch Stiftung, George Bell Institute, Kreisau Foundation) and by current Fellows.
- Candidates will be selected by the Selection Committee 2 times a year (June 30, January 31).
- The Selection Committee consists of representatives of the Kreisau Foundation, the George Bell Institute and the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
- The selection of a candidate is conducted in three stages:

First stage: Documents are submitted (a CV, a project proposal, which is to be realized through participation in the network).

Second stage: A trustee of the George Bell Institute, Kreisau Foundation or Robert Bosch Stiftung is asked to give an expertise/recommendation/reference of selected candidate.

Third stage: The candidate will have an interview with a representative of the Selection Committee.

Financial support
Fellows will be granted up to 5.000 Euro a year for their arts and research projects (research trip, conferences), books and other materials; 800 Euro for travelling expenses to Krzyżowa and spend a sabbatical (1 month) in Krzyżowa.

Please submit your application (CV and Motivation Letter including a project description, which you would like to realize within the network) via mail until January 15th, 2011 to Elżbieta Opiłowska.

The resurgence of radical conservatism in Russia

Professor Bill Bowring (Birkbeck, University of London and Visiting Professor in Law at the University of Northampton) will deliver a lecture -

The Resurgence of Radical Conservatism in Russia and the Theory and Practice of Human Rights Protection

The lecture will take place at the University of Northampton (Brampton 18 Park Campus), on 1 December 2010, at 6pm.

For further information -
E-mail: Melanie.crofts@northampton.ac.uk
Tel.: (01604)-892124

All welcome!

Fascist Radicalism and the New Media - podcasts

Fascist Radicalism and the New Media Symposium

Podcasts and presentations, by Backdoor Broadcasting Company -

Welcome (MP3)
- Doug Rae, Associate Dean of School of Social Sciences
- Dr Matthew Feldman, Director of the Radicalism and New Media Group

Keynote Talk: Gerry Gable (MA Crim.), Searchlight Magazine
‘Confronting Right-Wing Extremism in a Western Democracy’

Panel 1: New Media and the Resurgent British Fascism (Chair: Matthew Feldman)
- Dr Paul Jackson, University of Northampton: ‘The English Defence League and Far-Right Politics’
- Trevor Preston, University of Northampton: ‘From Billboard to Broadband: Cyber-Terrorism and the Extreme Right Wing’
- Benedict Addis, HP Labs: ‘Covert communities: How the Internet Fosters Extremism’

Panel 2: New Media and European Fascisms (Chair: Paul Jackson)
- Dr Matthew Feldman, University of Northampton: ‘Universal Nazism in Britain: The Case of the Aryan Strike Force’
- Dr Anna Castriota, University of Cardiff: ‘Julius Evola on the Web: The Fascist Ideal of “Europe as Aryanland”’
- Dr Anton Shekhovtsov, University of Northampton: ‘Far-Right Music in Europe: Songs of Hate and Devotion’

Panel 3: Practitioners on the Far-Right (Chair: Paul Jackson)
- East Midlands Community Contact Unit: ‘Experiences of a Regional Intervention Unit in Addressing Violent Extremism’
- Durham Constabulary: ‘Operation CONSTELLATION – The Right Wing Threat’

Concluding Discussion and Closing Remarks (Chair: Matthew Feldman) (MP3)

Modernism and Eugenics

The first volume in the recently established book series "Modernism and..." (edited by Roger Griffin) is out -

Marius Turda, Modernism and Eugenics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)



Is the nation an 'imagined community' centered on culture or rather a biological community determined by heredity? Modernism and Eugenics examines this question from a bifocal perspective. On the one hand, it looks at technologies through which the individual body was re-defined eugenically by a diverse range of European scientists and politicians between 1870 and 1940; on the other, it illuminates how the national community was represented by eugenic discourses that strove to battle a perceived process of cultural decay and biological degeneration. In the wake of a renewed interest in the history of science and fascism, Modernism and Eugenics treats the history of eugenics not as distorted version of crude social Darwinism that found its culmination in the Nazi policies of genocide but as an integral part of European modernity, one in which the state and the individual embarked on an unprecedented quest to renew an idealized national community.

Who Makes the Nazis?

This blog is highly recommended -

Who Makes the Nazis?
Keeping an eye on the neo-fascists burrowing their way into a subculture near you

Who Makes the Nazis? is a site focused on the fascist presence in various 'transgressive' (by their own estimation) musical subcultures. The claim is that at the fringes of these milieus, ideas about the sanctity of art and the irresponsibility and fundamental 'amorality' of the artist provide perfect cover behind which fascist and pro-fascist ideologues are allowed to spread their ideas. Currently these cultures include 'post-industrial', 'martial', 'neo-folk', 'apocalyptic folk' and 'darkwave', among others. It is not a matter of condemning these subcultures, which in fact contain many non-fascist, liberal, socialist, anti-fascist, etc., supporters, but rather of drawing a clear line between the fascists and non-fascists within them by showing the latter the nature and extent of the problem, in the hope that they will themselves marginalise and ultimately reject fascist participation in their 'scene'.

(Just in case you don't know: "Who Makes the Nazis?" is a title of one of the Fall's songs.)

Library updated (34 vols)

Have updated my library with the following e-books -

1. Walter L. Adamson, Avant-garde Florence: From Modernism to Fascism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993).
2. Franklin Hugh Adler, Italian Industrialists from Liberalism to Fascism: The Political Development of the Industrial Bourgeoisie, 1906-34 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
3. Catherine Andreyev, Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement: Soviet Reality and Emigré Theories (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
4. Peter Baehr, Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010).
5. William T. Cavanaugh, The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
6. Rita Chin, Heide Fehrenbach, Geoff Eley, Atina Grossmann, After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009).
7. Oleg V. Chlevnjuk, Master of the House: Stalin and His Inner Circle (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).
8. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).
9. Abby L. Ferber (ed.), Home-Grown Hate: Gender and Organized Racism (New York: Routledge, 2004).
10. A. James Gregor, The Search for Neofascism: The Use and Abuse of Social Science (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
11. Wolf Gruner, Jewish Forced Labor Under the Nazis: Economic Needs and Racial Aims, 1938–1944 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
12. Peter Hayes, From Cooperation to Complicity: Degussa in the Third Reich (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
13. Jeffrey Herf, Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
14. Douglas R. Holmes, Integral Europe: Fast-Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
15. Constantin Iordachi (ed.), Comparative Fascist Studies: New Perspectives (London and New York: Routledge, 2010).
16. Jennifer M. Kapczynski, The German Patient: Crisis and Recovery in Postwar Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008).
17. Zig Layton-Henry, Czarina Wilpert, Challenging Racism in Britain and Germany (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
18. Derek S. Linton, 'Who Has the Youth, Has the Future': The Campaign to Save Young Workers in Imperial Germany (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
19. Peter Longerich, Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
20. Timothy W. Mason, Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class. Ed. by Jane Caplan (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
21. Steven Merritt Miner, Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941-1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
22. Stanley G. Payne, David Jan Sorkin, John S. Tortorice (eds), What History Tells: George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004).
23. Nicos Poulantzas, The Poulantzas Reader: Marxism, Law, and the State. Ed. by James Martin (London: Verso, 2008).
24. Dagmar Reese, Growing up Female in Nazi Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006).
25. Martin Reisigl, Ruth Wodak, Discourse and Discrimination: Rhetorics of Racism and Antisemitism (London and New York: Routledge , 2001).
26. Aviel Roshwald, Ethnic Nationalism and the Fall of Empires: Central Europe, Russia and the Middle East, 1914–1923 (London and New York: Routledge, 2001).
27. Gavin Schaffer, Racial Science and British Society, 1930-62 (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).
28. George Talbot, Censorship in Fascist Italy, 1922-43 (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
29. Susan Tegel, Nazis and the Cinema (London and New York: Hambledon Continuum, 2007).
30. Paul Weindling (ed.), International Health Organisations and Movements, 1918-1939 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
31. Andrew Zimmerman, Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).
32. Joshua D. Zimmerman (ed.), Jews in Italy under Fascist and Nazi Rule, 1922-1945 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
33. Geneviève Zubrzycki, The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006).
34. Efraim Zuroff, Operation Last Chance: One Man's Quest to Bring Nazi Criminals to Justice (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).