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This course examines antifascism as a dynamic response to three waves of fascism across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Students engage with historical sources, political theory, and cultural materials to understand antifascism's evolving strategies, mobilisations, and controversies. The course will enable students to engage with case studies from different regions of the world, across the Global North, South and East, and invite critical reflection on what antifascism means in an age of resurgent militarism, authoritarianism and genocidal violence in global context.

Two consecutive hours per week, for 10 weeks, divided as following:

Lecture: one hour per week, for 10 weeks, in person

Seminar: one hour per week, for 10 weeks, in person

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Blog post (2000 words, 40%)

Group Antifascist Strategy Proposal (3000 words, 60%)

Adjustments and/or alternative modes of assessment will be available for students with disabilities that are hindered from participating in the group project.

The aim of the course is to introduce students to antifascism as a set of theoretical frameworks and political practices that have emerged across three waves of fascism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing on historical sources, political theory, and cultural analysis, the course situates antifascist movements in distinct social and political contexts across the Global North, South, and East. It examines how antifascist actors have analysed, confronted, and mobilised against fascism in different historical contexts, before turning to contemporary debates over strategies, tactics, and political practice. Through comparative case studies and collaborative work, the course enables students to develop a group project oriented toward the design and implementation of an antifascist campaign, informed by analysis of a global context marked by resurgent militarism, authoritarianism, and genocidal violence.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

- understand fascism as a theory and a movement

- analyse antifascist responses to the rise of fascism in distinct historical contexts and geographical spaces

- evaluate the efficacy of different historical and contemporary antifascist strategies and tactics

- design a group project with a view to implementing an antifascist campaign

- reflect critically on the relationship between antifascist theory and practice