Alt-Education

Gender, Knowledge and Far-right Metapolitics
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-70193-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 263 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right

Alt-Education looks at the stories the right tells about schools: a fight between an evil, indoctrinating government and a far-right freethinking truth warrior, between a frigid cultural Marxist teacher and a loving Christian mother.

This book explores the link between education, gender, and far-right metapolitics, and offers insights into the ways in which it circulates and is normalized. Through digital ethnography and fieldwork it explores the production, circulation, and interpretation of these discourses and the ideologies they express, tracing their movement across four groups of women in the US and UK – fascists, white nationalist, Christian nationalists, and Republicans. Although often understood to be opposed to education, the far-right is instead opposed to schooling – and offers its own practices of alt-education. Through media, alternative schools and home education, the far-right teaches their ideologies of gender and race, knowledge, and power, as well as transmitting alternative histories, sociologies, and conspiracies. From mom’s groups to digital discourses about the evils of public schools, social media are key arenas in which women not only teach, but are taught, far-right alternative knowledge. Alt-education teaches reactionary ideology as a timeless truth, normalizing it through discourses of home, family and love. At the same time, alt-education borrows and co-opts the language of critique – normalizing racism, sexism and fascism a kind of alternative knowledge, while making it exciting as a countercultural critique of “woke” liberal indoctrination. The book concludes with a look at this attempt to “speak post-truth to power” as a way of normalizing and spreading their ideology – bringing alt-education to a wide audience as their critiques of “woke” politics spreads across the US, UK, and into Europe.

This book is aimed at scholars of the far-right and gender, as well as scholars and practitioners of education. Written in an accessible and engaging tone, this book will be of interest to both researchers and advanced undergraduates.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tebaldi, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Alt-Education: An Introduction 2. Circulating Narratives and Metapolitical Fables 3. Classical Education and Christian Nationalism 4. Dissident Mamas and Joyful Warriors 5. Alt Right 101: Tradwives and White Nationalist Education 6. Prager U, Patriotic Teachers, and the Radicalization of US Education Discourse 7. The Intellectual Dark Web and the Legitimation of Sexism and Racism as “Heterodoxy” 8. Patriotic Alternative and the Globalization of the War on Woke 9. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Catherine Tebaldi is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Humanities, University of Luxembourg.