Descripción del proyecto
La letra F de fascismo en la Europa contemporánea
¿En qué forma sigue constituyendo hoy la letra F una cuestión apremiante y urgente en Europa? Para responder a esta pregunta, el proyecto financiado con fondos europeos F-WORD llevará a cabo una investigación etnográfica comparativa entre los centros de artes marciales y deportes de combate. Utilizará estos centros como contextos para estudiar la manera en que los jóvenes difunden y se apropian las prácticas y los significados fascistas. En conjunto, se desarrollará un nuevo paradigma en la exploración antropológica del fascismo contemporáneo, enmarcado por la metodología de la etnografía feminista. El proyecto también investigará el tema desde un punto de vista diacrónico, explorando qué efectos tienen la historia europea y la política de la memoria en la vida diaria de los jóvenes y cómo se perciben y viven dichos efectos.
Objetivo
How and why does the “f-word” of fascism continue to constitute a compelling and urgent issue in contemporary Europe? F-WORD addresses this question through comparative ethnographic research among martial arts and combat sports sites as contexts for exploring how fascist practices and meanings are diffused and appropriated by youth. Using fascism as a heuristic device, this project also unfolds diachronically, seeking to explore how European history and memory politics are practiced in the daily lives of young people, and how they are signified and experienced, ultimately connecting to mythic representations of the past to inform a future-oriented fascist utopia.
This will be achieved through a comparative ethnography in three European countries (Belgium, Italy, Poland), moving from combat sport and martial arts urban contexts to follow relations and life trajectories of young people (18-30) with the objective of mapping where youth encounter political discourses in non-political spaces. Extended ethnographic fieldwork (10 months) will be carried out by experienced post-docs supervised by the PI. Furthermore, the comparative design of the project aims to uncover the shared logic of fascism, not abstractly but as embedded ideological process.
F-WORD proposes a new paradigm in the anthropological exploration of contemporary fascism, framed by the methodology of feminist ethnography, which will interrogate how specific methodological choices are involved in the process of knowledge- production and their epistemological consequences.
The ground-breaking nature of this project is twofold: one, it unveils the world behind fascism, and thus the diffusion and various appropriations of fascist practices and meanings among European youth; two, it employs feminist ethnography as a paradigm which itself opens up new and unexplored directions of research.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedInstitución de acogida
10124 Torino
Italia