CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Jungblut, Jessica Lynne |
|---|---|
| Title | Securing class power through the politics of fear: Post- fascism, institutional nationalism and securitization in Italy |
| Summary | The post-Cold War consensus between the Left and Right, and the neoliberalisation facilitated therein, has been marked by anti-democratic tendencies and the suppression of class-based politics. Consequential feelings of insecurity have been key to political mobilization in the form of far-right populist movements targeting state elites, vertically, and immigrants, horizontally. It is my contention that Left and Right politicians similarly answer to these insecurities with exclusionary horizontal securitization discourses. The latter process represents an institutional nationalism that effectively works to obscure the vertical sources of popular anger, while serving to further neoliberalisation and its insecurity-producing tendencies. Focusing on the case of Italy, I trace the hegemonic framing of security, which has come to symbolize democracy in the country’s so-called “Second Republic”. I argue, moreover, that democratic-liberal “consensus” between the far-right, Right, and Left, along with internal securitization, has made post-totalitarian fascism a reality. |
| Supervisor | Kalb, Don; Gaspar, Tamas Miklos |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/jungblut_jessica.pdf |
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