Featherstone, D. (2013) Black internationalism, subaltern cosmopolitanism and the spatial politics of anti-fascism. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103(6), pp. 1406-1420. (doi: 10.1080/00045608.2013.779551)
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Abstract
This article explores black internationalist articulations of antifascism in the 1930s through a discussion of the “maps of grievance” mobilized by African American volunteers in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. It interrogates how African American volunteers linked the conflict in Spain to Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia and to struggles against white supremacy in the United States. Through making such linkages, black internationalist intellectuals and political activists have made significant, if frequently neglected, theoretical and political engagements with fascism and antifascism. By decentering the national in internationalism and situating forms of subaltern cosmopolitanism as constitutive of internationalist political activity, it reconfigures aspects of the spatial constitution of internationalism.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Featherstone, Professor David |
| Authors: | Featherstone, D. |
| College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Geographical and Earth Sciences |
| Journal Name: | Annals of the Association of American Geographers |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| ISSN: | 0004-5608 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1467-8306 |
| Published Online: | 29 April 2013 |
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