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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: Back to the 30s? -- Comparative Structures: Homogeneity, Continuity, Repetition -- The Great Depression and the Great Recession -- Responding to the Great Recession: Historical Memory and Political Economy -- Explaining the Recurrence of Crisis: Finance and Debt, Innovation and Inequality -- Writing the History of Capitalism: Waves, Cycles, and Stages -- Looking Ahead: Another Surge on the Horizon? -- The Rise of "Populism" and Authoritarian Nationalism |
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Politics and Economy in the Emergence of Right-Wing Authoritarianism -- Debating the Appeal of Authoritarianism: The Psychological Dynamics of Right-Wing Authoritarianism -- Identifying the Limits of Liberalism: Capitalist Liberal Democracy's Internal Contradictions -- The Organization of the Book -- References -- Part I Crises of Capital and Hegemonic Transitions -- 2 The Spectre of the 1930s -- References -- 3 Reading Contemporary Latin America in the Light of the 1930s: Cycles of Accumulation and the Politics of Passive Revolution -- Financial Expansion, Systemic Chaos and Passive Revolution |
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The Early Twentieth Century and the Crisis of the Liberal Order -- The "Golden Age" of Capitalism (and Socialism) 1945-1975 -- Neoliberalism and Post: The Return of Financialization -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Organic Crisis and Counter-Hegemonic Responses in the Interwar Era and the Era of Memoranda in Greece -- Intra-Bourgeois Struggles and the Metaxas Dictatorship -- Greece in the 2010s: Hegemonic Instability, Emergent Fascism, and the Rise of the Left -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 The State of Capitalism and the Rise of the Right in the 1930s and Today: Hungary as a Case Study |
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The Social Democratic Left and the Great Depression -- How Neoliberalism Conquered the Left -- Hungary After the 1989 Political Transition -- Orbán's Hungary: Back to the Thirties -- Bibliography -- 6 The New Great Transformation: The Origins of Neo-Populism in Light of Systemic Cycles of Accumulation -- Crisis of What? World-Systemic Cycles of Accumulation -- Where Are We Now? When Are We Here? -- The New Great Transformation and the Farce of Historic Tragedy -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Limits of Liberal Democracy |
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7 Second Time as Farce? Authoritarian Liberalism in Historical Perspective -- Weimar: Back to the Future -- Postwar: A Misdiagnosis? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 8 A Second Foundation? Constitution, Nation-Building, and the Deepening of Authoritarianism in Turkey -- Old-New Turkey? -- Two Foundations and Their Constitutions -- The Creation of an Old-New Enemy of the State After the June 2015 Elections -- The Politics of Turkishness and Necropower -- Kurds in Old-New Turkey: Discriminated, Displaced, Dispossessed -- Conclusion -- References |
| Summary |
The essays in this volume address the question: what does it mean to understand the contemporary moment in light of the 1930s? In the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and facing a dramatic rise of right wing, authoritarian politics across the globe, the events of the 1930s have acquired a renewed relevance. Contributions from a diverse, interdisciplinary group of scholars address the relationship between these historical moments in various geographical contexts, from Asia-Pacific to Europe to the Americas, while probing an array of thematic questions--the meaning of populism and fascism, the contradictions of constitutional liberalism and "militant democracy, " long cycles and crisis tendencies in capitalism, the gendering and racialization of right wing movements, and the cultural and class politics of emancipatory struggles. Uncovering continuity as well as change and repetition in the midst of transition, Back to the 30s? enriches our ability to use the past to evaluate the challenges, dangers, and promises of the present |
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Includes index |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 21, 2020) |
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Two thousand twenty, A.D.
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Nineteen thirties.
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Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.
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Civilization, Modern
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Nineteen thirties
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Two thousand twenty, A.D.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Rayner, Jeremy (Professor), editor.
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Falls, Susan, editor.
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Souvlis, George, 1985- editor.
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Nelms, Taylor C., editor.
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| ISBN |
9783030415860 |
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3030415864 |
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