Old and New Anti-Fascism. Evolutions of anti-fascist action in the Netherlands, 1945-1989
dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | De Haan, I. | |
dc.contributor.author | Olthoff, D. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-01-08T18:00:47Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-01-08T18:00:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/31603 | |
dc.description.abstract | This master thesis deals with three different periods of anti-fascism activism in the Netherlands between 1945 and 1989. Using Dan Stone’s theory of the downfall of the anti-fascist consensus and Nigel Copsey’s concept of the anti-fascist minimum, it asks the question what role anti-fascism has played as a structuring force in Dutch politics in the post-war era. Three different waves of anti-fascism are identified, during which ideological components significantly varied, leading to different views of what constituted the fascist threat. The main argument is that anti-fascism provided the left with a discourse to express anxieties about the survival of democracy, was driven by shifting narratives and interpretations of World War II and formed a potential instrument for intra-left cooperation. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.format.extent | 1004098 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.title | Old and New Anti-Fascism. Evolutions of anti-fascist action in the Netherlands, 1945-1989 | |
dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | anti-fascism, antifascism, action, politics, fascism, neo-fascism, racism, discrimination, communism, Cold War, PvdA, CPN, left, Nigel Copsey, Dan Stone, World War II, Dutch politics, the Netherlands, ideology, reconstruction, reactie, Waakzaamheid, AFFRA, AFdruk, twentieth century, memory politics | |
dc.subject.courseuu | History |