Agonistic Belonging: The Banality of Good, the “Alt Right” and the Need for Sympathy

Agonistic Belonging: The Banality of Good, the “Alt Right” and the Need for Sympathy

Research article. Published in Open Cultural Studies 2019; 3: 1-14

Abstract
This paper considers aspects of the rise of neo-fascist political sentiment across Europe. It suggests that an appropriate political response to those developments must involve a reconsideration of the politics of sympathy which is seen as essential in the formation of solidarity.

Keywords
anti-racism; compassion; nationalism; humanism; Alt Right; nostalgia; proteophobia; Fanon; Améry

Paul Gilroy

Open Cultural Studies 2019; 3: 1-14

De Gruyter

2019