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\nFor the first time since the Second World War\, the far right will form a government in Germany. Instead of asking &ndash\; as often happens &ndash\; who is to bl ame\, Dr. Petra Rethmann maps out a few factors that have led to the incre asing political and electoral success of the far right in Germany and beyo nd. The talk ends with a few considerations oriented toward political futu res.
\nDr. Petr a Rethmann is professor of Anthropology\, a faculty member in the Cult ural Studies and Critical Theory program and a member of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition. She is the author of Tundra Passage s (2001) and co-editor of Globality: Frictions and Connections (in press) and the author of numerous articles that have appeared in edited volumes a nd in journals such as American Anthropologist\, American Ethnologist\, An thropologica\, Cultural Critique\, and Anthropologie et Socié\;t&eac ute\;. Her research is based in two main areas: Russia and South Africa. O ver the past decade\, she has devoted her attention to thinking about a nu mber of interrelated issues concerning: cultural creativity and agency\; t he afterlife of particular historical movements and moments\; the producti on of history and the place of art within it\; fetishization and the viole nce of culture. In her writings on all of these issues she attends to ques tions of cultural politics and representation. Petra is currently working on two book-length projects. The first one examines the cultural politics of left-wing collectives and movements that emerged in West Germany in the 1980s. The second project involves a critical interrogation of the South African anti-apartheid struggle\, examined from a perspective of the futur e that never came into being.
\nDoors open 6pm\; talk starts 6:30pm.
\nPresented in partnership with \;McMaster University Department of Anthropology \;as part of the Anthropologists in the City lecture series.
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