/2021/03/10/why-is-this-fascism-is-the-wrong-question-a-foray-into-the-everyday-life-of-political-concepts/ Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:35:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 /2021/03/10/why-is-this-fascism-is-the-wrong-question-a-foray-into-the-everyday-life-of-political-concepts/comment-page-1/#comment-4878 Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:35:49 +0000 https://anthrodendum.org/?p=6705#comment-4878 generally sympathetic to this kind of reminder that meaning is in use and that we should avoid reification but have serious questions about “What anthropologists have to offer to the debates around American fascism are fine-grained accounts of patterns of use” how fine-grained can such investigations be, how much context is needed to grasp any localized event, and how much can one then generalize from any such sampling? Seems more of a de-constructive value to be had in any such examination of what’s actually occuring than a constructive one that can serve the public/common good.

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