This volume brings together leading international experts in politics, discourse, memory and culture to examine the complex entanglements of populism(s) and fascism(s) in political thought and cultural productions. The starting point is Argentine historian Federico Finchelstein’s assertion that the dynamics of transnational fascism and populist movements become clearer when viewed from the margins. Indeed, it was in Latin America – not Europe – where fascism and populism first intersected, with Argentine Peronism as the paradigmatic case. Building on this perspective, the volume explores Europe’s political and cultural legacy of fascism within the context of globalized mobilities, linking its totalitarian roots to the Latin American genealogies of populism(s). Adopting an interdisciplinary transnational and transhistorical approach, and cultural transfer as a method, it investigates cultural representations and practices that both reflect and challenge the divisive ‘Us’ versus ‘Them’ rhetoric central to fascist and populist discourses. Particular attention is given to how cultural artifacts and practices memorialize, remediate, and oppose narratives of fascism(s) and populism(s), with the assumption that (anti)fascist art and activism still move along transatlantic trajectories. This book will be of interest to researchers of fascism, populism, social and cultural history, European and Latin American history, literature, art and activism.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Studying Interconnected Practices of Fascism(s) and Populism(s) from a Transatlantic Perspective Part 1: Genealogies 1. Fascisms and Populisms: Towards a Conceptual Refinement 2. ‘Tutti i popoli sono bande’: Giorgio Agamben’s Populism Part 2: Practices and Discourses 3. Populist Radical Discourses on Both Sides of the Political Spectrum in Contemporary Spain: The Case of Pablo Iglesias and Santiago Abascal 4. Challenging Austerity: The Redemptive Populism of the Five Star Movement 5. Nicaragua’s Anti/Authoritarian Returns: ‘Us’ versus ‘Them’ in the 2018 Protests and their Repression Part 3: Representations 6. ‘Latinity’ as Colonial Ideology: The Travel Writing of Italian Journalists in Mexico in the 1920s 7. 1932-1935: Antonio Berni, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and the Transnational Cultural Politics of Anti-Fascism 8. The Battlefield of Culture: Imaginaries and Cultural Politics of Nationalist and Fascist Intellectuals and Writers in Chile (1930-2000) 9. Mariana Callejas, Writer of the Chilean Dictatorship: Tensions between Femininity, Right-wing Ideology, and Infamy Part 4: Testimonies 10. “A Museum Label Is Not Enough!”: Diffraction, Urban Fascist Legacy, and Participatory Artivism from Contemporary Rome 11. Writing Is a Political Act 12. Propagating ‘Them’ in Fascist, Imperial, Liberal and Emancipatory Politics Afterword