Extremism, society, and the state / Giacomo Loperfido

Introduction The Enigma of Extremism -- Getting Ready for the Dark Age s? Preppers, Populists and Climate Prophets: The Disintegration of Global Hegemony, PC Hysteria and the Deplorable Ugliness of Decline -- Are We All Extremists Now? -- How Boko Haram’s ‘Liminal’ Child Witches and Child Soldiers Challenge the Capitalist State An Animist Critique of Neo-Liberalism’s Ideology of ‘Extremism’ -- The Empire and the Barbarians Cosmological Laceration and the Social Establishment of Extremism -- Suicide Bombing and Social Death -- Retreat to the Future The Role of Apocalyptic Thought in Current Ethnonationalist Extremism -- Extremism as Immanence and Process The Trump Transmutation

Extremism does not happen in a vacuum. Rather, extremism is a relative concept that often emerges in crisis situations, taking shape within the tense and contradictory relations that tie marginal spaces, state orders, and mainstream culture. This collected volume brings together leading anthropologists and cultural analysts to offer a concise look at the narratives, symbolic, and metaphoric fields related to extremism, systematizing an approach to extremism, and placing these ideologies into historical, political, and geo-systemic contexts.