Description du projet
De l’usage du mot fascisme dans l’Europe contemporaine
Comment peut-il encore constituer un problème impérieux et urgent en Europe aujourd’hui? Pour répondre à cette question, le projet F-WORD, financé par l’UE, mènera une recherche ethnographique comparative sur les sites d’arts martiaux et de sports de combat. Il utilisera ces sites comme contextes pour explorer comment les pratiques et les significations fascistes sont diffusées et adoptées par les jeunes. Globalement, le projet développera un nouveau paradigme dans l’exploration anthropologique du fascisme contemporain, encadré par la méthodologie de l’ethnographie féministe. Le projet explorera également la question de manière diachronique en examinant comment l’histoire européenne et la politique de la mémoire sont pratiquées dans la vie quotidienne des jeunes et comment elles sont signifiées et vécues.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Thème(s)
Régime de financement
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedInstitution d’accueil
10124 Torino
Italie