Towards an Anti-Fascist Global Citizenship Education

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Abstract

The global expansion of neo-fascism as a coordinated response to the crisis of capitalism requires a critical reconfiguration of theoretical and practical tools in the educational field. In this chapter, we analyze the political-pedagogical strategies of neo-fascism, both in and beyond school. We emphasize its transnational character and propose a conceptualization of its strategies as a contribution to the understanding of its growing dominance. In response to this, we propose orientations for an anti-fascist pedagogy that confers a new interpretation of "global citizenship" from an anti-imperialist, queer, and international and intersectional solidarity perspective, uniting struggles in both the global South and North for the construction of a new hegemony.

Authors

• Dani Friedrich, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Cinthia Wanschelbaum, Universidad de Buenos Aires