The Far-Right, Education and Violence

Michael A. Peters, FRSNZ is Distinguished Professor of Education at Beijing Normal University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory and the Beijing International Review of Education. His interests are in education, philosophy, and social policy, and he is the author of over 100 books, including The Chinese Dream: Educating the Future (2019), Wittgenstein, Education and Rationality (2020), and Wittgenstein: Antifoundationalism, Technoscience and Education (2020). Tina Besley is Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Auckland. She is Founding President of the Association for Visual Pedagogies (AVP) and Immediate Past President of Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA). She has published over 12 books and many articles and is deputy editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory,and an associate editor for the Beijing International Review of Education. She works closely with Professor Michael A. Peters and with a wide international network of scholars.

Introduction 1. National Populism and the Rise of the Far-Right—‘bad Nietzsche rising’ and the ‘fascism in our heads’ 2. ‘The fascism in our heads’: Reich, Fromm, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari—the social pathology of fascism in the twenty-first century 3. The return of fascism: Youth, violence and nationalism 4. The Unforeseen: Education and the flowers of sacrifice 5. White supremacism: The tragedy of Charlottesville 6. Terrorism, trauma, tolerance: Bearing witness to white supremacist attack on Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand 7. The refugee camp as the biopolitical paradigm of the West 8. The Refugee Crisis and The Right to Political Asylum 9. The end of neoliberal globalisation and the rise of authoritarian populism 10. Trump’s nationalism, ‘the end of globalism’, and ‘the age of patriotism’: ‘the future does not belong to globalists. The future belongs to patriots.’ 11. The crisis of international education 12. The failure of liberalism and liberal education