RT Article
T1 ‘The antifascist kick’: a signifying cultural practice in the history of transnational antifascism?
JF Fascism
VO 9
IS 1/2
SP 272
OP 287
A1 Pavic Lundberg, Victor 1987-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/185949918X
AB This article is based on an empirical study of ‘the antifascist kick’ as a formative cultural practice in the history of transnational antifascism. It scopes from the 1930s and the era of opposition to classic fascism, through to the twenty-first century where antifascism encounters political processes of globalization, fragmentation, neoliberalism, and neofascism. The article discusses the ‘antifascist kick’ in different historical contexts, from 1930s Sweden to Germany and the United States today. The article reveals that ‘the antifascist kick’ works in various cultural directions: as a political conception of those who are only worth contempt, as a symbolic representation of the antifascist struggle, and as a practical instruction for how to treat fascists in the streets.
K1 Antifa
K1 Antifascism
K1 Germany
K1 Sweden
K1 Transnationalism
K1 United States of America
DO 10.1163/22116257-09010007