The Psycho-Cultural Underpinnings of Everyday Fascism av Marcia Tiburi

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When the Brazilian public intellectual Marcia Tiburi published <i>The Psycho-Cultural Underpinnings of Everyday Fascism</i> in 2015, fascism was yet to return to the public consciousness. But Tiburi was motivated by the kind of fascism she was noticing in daily life ¿ people who fail to practise any kind of reflection about society, betraying a pattern of everyday thought characterized by the repetition of clich¿and the angry language of hatred. Three years later, Brazil elected the far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.Now available in English for the first time, this prescient work speaks to our present moment. Fascism is among us once again, evident in the collective expression of exacerbated authoritarianism and the growing hatred against difference and people marked as socially undesirable. Drawing on her own first-hand, brutal encounters, Tiburi connects ways of thinking in Brazil to what is happening around us today and introduces us to the fascist as manipulator, the distorter of