Louie Dean Valencia-García - Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History: Alt/Histories

In Far-Right Revisionism and the End of the History: Alt/Histories, historians, sociologists, neuroscientists, lawyers, cultural critics, and literary and media scholars come together to offer an interconnected and comparative collection for understanding how contemporary far-right, neo-fascist, Alt-Right, Identitarian and New Right movements have proposed revisions and counter-narratives to accepted understandings of history, fact and narrative. The innovative essays found here bring forward urgent questions to diverse public, academic and politically minded audiences interested in how historical understandings of race, gender, class, nationalism, religion, law, technology and the sciences have been distorted by these far-right movements. If scholars of the last twenty years, like Francis Fukuyama, believed that neoliberalism marked an end of history, this volume shows how the far right is effectively threatening democracy and its institutions through the dissemination of alt-facts and histories.

Louie Dean Valencia-Garca is Assistant Professor of Digital History at Texas State University, has taught at Harvard University, and is founding co-chair of the Council for European Studies at Columbia Universitys Critical European Studies Research Network. He is Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right.

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37 Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History

Alt/Histories

Edited by Louie Dean Valencia-Garca

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Names: Valencia-Garca, Louie Dean, editor.

Title: Far-right revisionism and the end of history : alt / histories / edited by Louie Dean Valencia-Garca.

Description: New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, [2020] |

Series: Routledge approaches to history ; vol. 37 |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020002872 (print) |

LCCN 2020002873 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367460082 (hardback) |

ISBN 9781003026433 (ebook) | ISBN 9781000053715 (adobe pdf) |

ISBN 9781000053722 (mobi) | ISBN 9781000054071 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: HistoryPhilosophy. | Truthfulness and
falsehood. | White supremacist movments. | Right-wing
extremists.

Classification: LCC D16.9 .F318 2020 (print) |

LCC D16.9 (ebook) | DDC 320.56/909dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020002872

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020002873

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Dedicated to all those who face discrimination and those who fight to have their histories made visible.

I want to thank each of the contributors to this volume; its truly been a pleasure to be able to work with such brilliant people. This book is the product of a diversity of conversations that began in the back hallways of the Barker Center at Harvard University during my time there as a Lecturer on History and Literature. It began with questions of how do historians engage with the public sphereespecially in a world where the far right has re-emerged. This work would not have come to be without those insightful conversations held with Lauri Thtinen and Ren Carrasco. A.K. Skarpelis and A.J. Bauer were immensely helpful when considering the framing for this project.

The conversations continued at panels organised at conferences held by American Historical Association (2018), the Council for European Studies (2019) and the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right (2019). Those organisations have in particular supported my work over the last several years. Cynthia Miller-Idrisss support, comments and guidance have been instrumental for the success of this project. Im forever grateful to her. At the Universidad Autnoma de Madrid, Flix Duque and Marcela Vlezs kind invitation to participate in the jornada de estudio sobre la extrema derecha was particularly helpful. Marc Tuters invitation to participate with the Open Intelligence Lab team on the project The Secret Histories of the Radical Right: Tracing the Reception and Dissemination of Fascist Esotericism from 4chan to the mainstream at the University of Amsterdams Digital Methods Summer School also proved invaluable. An invitation by Johannes Von Moltke and Alexandra Stern at the University of Michigan to participate in the Narratives of the Alt-Right panel at the Cultural Formations of the Alt-Right symposium in the fall of 2019 further gave me the chance to participate in interdisciplinary conversations. In addition, I must thank the entire Department of History at Texas State University for creating an environment that provides a never-ending discussion about the role of history and its place in the public sphere. In particular, I want to mention the support of Margaret Menninger, Jessica Pliley, Angela Murphy, Ellen Tillman, Jeffrey Helgeson, Ana Romo, Kenneth Margerison, Jos Carlos de la Puente, Joaqun Rivaya-Martnez, Lynn Denton, Gene Bourgeois, Catherine Jaffe, Heather Galloway, Susan Morrison and Nicole Taylor. A special thanks goes to Desiree and Alex Melonas, Hlne Ducros, James Lassen, Sergio Peinado Garca, David Harrison Idol, Rudy Martnez, Jodi Reeves Eyre, Charlie Solis, Zachary Olah, Ryan Conroy and Kae Kratcha for always putting up with my admittedly morbid discussions about fascism.