Nationalism | nccr – on the move https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog Thu, 12 Jun 2025 14:03:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Gender and the Far Right: How Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Hides in Gender-Skeptic Discourse https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/gender-and-the-far-right-how-anti-immigrant-rhetoric-hides-in-gender-skeptic-discourse/ https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/gender-and-the-far-right-how-anti-immigrant-rhetoric-hides-in-gender-skeptic-discourse/#respond Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:57:50 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=10236 Today’s far-right parties across Europe have swapped skinhead boots for suits and slogans about race for discussions on “family values.” By attacking feminism and LGBTQA+ rights, they make use of widespread biases while hiding more extreme views. This new image, wrapped in tradition and respectability, allows racism and xenophobia to

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]]> https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/gender-and-the-far-right-how-anti-immigrant-rhetoric-hides-in-gender-skeptic-discourse/feed/ 0 Amoral Immobilism: Or, What I Learned From a Half-Year Sabbatical in Rome and Naples? https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/amoral-immobilism-or-what-i-learned-from-a-half-year-sabbatical-in-rome-and-naples/ https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/amoral-immobilism-or-what-i-learned-from-a-half-year-sabbatical-in-rome-and-naples/#respond Wed, 14 May 2025 07:30:11 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=10211 As Italy navigates a period of rising nationalism and the influence of a far-right government, a mid-20th-century concept has regained attention. Edward Banfield’s notion of “amoral familism”—a social pattern characterized by strong familial loyalty alongside limited trust in wider society—was originally used to interpret the persistent underdevelopment of a rural

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