Living Right: Far-Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe.

A Conversation with Agnieszka Pasieka, author of Living Right, and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Montreal.

2/6/2025
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Class of 1930 Room, Rockefeller Center
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Sociology Department
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A Conversation with Agnieszka Pasieka, author of Living Right, and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Montreal, featuring Smriti Upadhyay, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College, and Udi Greenberg, Associate Professor of History at Dartmouth College. 
In this eye-opening book, Agnieszka Pasieka draws on her own sometimes harrowing fieldwork among Italian, Polish, and Hungarian militant youths, painting unforgettable portraits of students, laborers, entrepreneurs, musicians, and activists from well-off middle class backgrounds who have all found a nurturing home in the far right. Providing an in-depth account of radical nationalist communities and networks that are taking root across Europe, she shows how the simultaneous orientation of these groups toward the local and the transnational is a key to their success. With a focus on far-right morality that challenges commonly held ideas about the right, Pasieka describes how far-right movements afford opportunities to the young to be active members of tightly bonded comradeships while sharing in a broader project with global ramifications.

 

Location
Class of 1930 Room, Rockefeller Center
Sponsored by
Sociology Department
Audience
Public
More information
Sociology
6036463995