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Against Red Fascism!: Anti-Communism of the Czech Antifascist Action as a Polarizing Factor on the Czech Radical Left
Get PDFAfter the collapse of communism in 1989, several new phenomena emerged in the Czech Republic, including the far right, which built on aggressive anti-communism, nationalism, and support for right-wing currents. At the same time, there was a significant discrediting of general left-wing attitudes because of their identification with communism. The article focuses on how the Czech Antifascist Action (AFA) worked with anti-communism. The article first shows the basic principles on which anti-communism is based. It then focuses on post-communist anti-communism, specifically in the Czech Republic. At the same time, the article presents the history of anarchist anti-communism. The article then summarizes AFA's history, specifically its Czech version until the COVID-19 period. Methodologically, the article uses content analysis. The crucial data source is the texts published by AFA in their magazine Antifa News or Akce! and on their website Antifa.cz. In principle, it can be assumed that anti-communism played several distinct roles but were intertwined and mutually reinforcing. It enabled AFA to distinguish itself from the Communist Party and communism generally. The specificity of the Czech AFA's anti-communism lies in combining both approaches typical of anarchist anti-communism and approaches characteristic of the Czech variant of post-communist anti-communism
Subverting Motherhood: Investigating the Mothers' Activism in Environmental Conflicts
Get PDFIn recent decades, social movement scholars have paid significant attention to the study of local ecological conflicts, delving into various dimensions and actors involved in mobilization. However, the role of mothers' committees in such conflicts has consistently been underestimated, despite their pivotal role in shaping mobilization dynamics and triggering significant processes in both private and public spheres. To address this gap, the paper aims at shedding light on the mobilization of mothers' committees in local ecological conflicts by using a qualitative method to compare "Mamme NO TAP" in Apulia, "Mamme No PFAS" in Veneto and "Mamme NO MUOS" in Sicily. In critique of the essentialist interpretation of these mobilizations, this paper combines the approach of strategic essentialism with the literature on feminist political ecology in order to explore the arguments, the processes and the strategies that led these women to organise themselves into committees based on the motherhood identity. At the same time, this paper discusses how during the mobilization the traditional identity of mother is subverted towards a more feminist approach, by opening emancipatory spaces in the private and public sphere for all women. For this reason, these struggles need to be considered as forms of embodied feminism
Anti-Corruption from Below in Italy: Mobilization Trends from 1992 to 2021
Get PDFUsing the methodology of protest event analysis and the theoretical framework of political and discursive opportunity structure, this paper analyses anti-corruption mobilizations in Italy over a 30year period (1992-2021). The chosen period is marked by a growing international interest in the topic of corruption, partly due to major political scandals. The research is based on a quantitative analysis of a dataset called Antimob, created by the author and based on press reviews. Specifically, the study investigates some characteristics of the mobilizations mapped and relates them to political and social factors, in order to assess the existence of an anti-corruption movement in Italy. By shedding light on the early stages of collective action, the article contributes the understanding of anti-corruption mobilizations in Italy
Antifascist Mediation: Practices of Affirmative Biopolitics in Lesbos, Greece
Get PDFThe practices of antifascists in Lesbos, Greece have highlighted, on the one hand, the biopolitical practices of the humanitarian sector and authorities and, on the other hand, they have shown the potentiality for an "affirmative" biopolitics. The different biopolitical orientations operational in Lesbos came clearly to the fore in the two cases of the Occupation of Sapphous Square and the Occupation of SYRIZA offices in Mytilene, Lesbos in autumn of 2017. The two cases additionally showed that mediation, too, is biopolitical, and therefore subject to the same bi-directionality insofar that both the humanitarian sector and the antifascists acted as mediators, albeit serving different political objectives. Furthermore, these practices in Lesbos allow us to understand biopolitics as bi-directional insofar that on the ground in Lesbos, which we also find in theoretical reflections, attempts have been made to disentangle life from the apparatuses that control, manage, and even exterminate life
The Eternal City di Hall Caine. Analisi di un romanzo tra echi mazziniani e modernismo teologico
Get PDFItThe Eternal City (1901) è il romanzo più famoso di Hall Caine (1853-1931), uno degli scrittori britannici più letti all'inizio del XX secolo. Il saggio mira ad analizzare il romanzo evidenziandone i debiti nei confronti del pensiero mazziniano - e, in particolar modo, di quanto Giuseppe Mazzini ha espresso nella Lettera al clero italiano, pubblicata nel 1850 - e come tale debiti abbiano di fatto contribuito allo sviluppo in senso modernista del romanzo stesso.EnThe Eternal City (1901) is the most famous novel by Hall Caine (1853-1931), one of the most widely read British writers at the beginning of the 20th century. The essay aims to analyse the novel by highlighting its debts to Mazzini's thought - and, in particular, to what Giuseppe Mazzini expressed in his Letter to the Italian Clergy, published in 1850 - and how these debts actually contributed to the novel's development in a modernist sense
Il concetto di monade nella fenomenologia = The concept of monad in phenomenology
No full textThe concept of "monad" in phenomenology, particularly in Husserl's thought, is both intriguing and controversial. On one hand, the use of the term seems obvious, given its grounding in research on intersubjectivity; on the other, it presents problems related to its metaphysical connotations, risking the suggestion of a solipsism that Husserl himself sought to avoid. Husserl retrieves the monad, typically associated with Leibniz's metaphysics, to explore subjectivity as a dynamic and complex unity, moving beyond a static view of consciousness. In this context, the monad is seen as a way to express the relationship between ego, cogito, and cogitatum, opening up a deeper understanding of experience. Despite recent critiques, it is unclear whether Husserl's monadology can genuinely evade the metaphysical implications tied to Leibniz's concept. Therefore, it is essential to interpret Husserl's monad primarily in epistemological terms, using it to address metaphysical questions without reaching definitive answers. A schematic evaluation of the concept of the monad in Husserl may shed light on its meaning, limits, and implications within the phenomenological context
