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THE PSYCHO-CULTURAL UNDERPINNINGS OF EVERYDAY F...

When the Brazilian public intellectual Marcia Tiburi published The Psycho-Cultural
Underpinnings of Everyday Fascism 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 clichés 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 other
people's speech  fascist as an activist of evil on a daily basis  the one who lives by
fostering racism and male-domination and is proud of it. Tiburi takes us beyond formal policies
reinvigorates ideas from the Frankfurt School and refuses to otherize supporters of fascism.
Instead she asks what is amiss in their lives that then attracts them to a political project
that victimizes them. This powerful book forces us to consider to our actions at a subjective
level and changes our way of thinking through issues of hate and divisiveness pervading
politics everywhere.

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