Restriction: Must be in the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies doctoral or graduate certificate program.

This seminar asks whether and how 'fascism' and 'anti-fascism' might be useful terms for social, historical, and political analysis. From the association of fascism with police violence and colonial domination to the characterization of contemporary anti-immigrant discourses as fascistic, there have been a variety of late twentieth and early twenty-first century invocations of fascism as a rising aspect of political mobilization around the world. What definitions of fascism have been useful to scholars of historical and present-day political movements? What understandings of the body, the human, and the state do the analysis of 'fascism' allow or obscure? How have different anti-fascist mobilizations intersected with (or failed to intersect with) other related social movements?