IPhA 2024. Robin Grille: The New Fascism: Social Devolution or Growth Panic?
What is this presentation about?
In recent years we have seen wave after wave of backlash - often violent - against revolutionary social transformations (in gender dynamics especially) and an inexorable growth of globalism and multiculturalism. It seems these forces of social transformation have been met by an almost equal and opposite fervor for conservatism. What are the perceived existential threats to group-identity, and how can we better understand the despair that drives this backlash around the world? Rather than a sociological frame, I wish to apply a psychological - in particular, developmental - frame for understanding this worrisome phenomenon.
Looking more deeply: why do so many of us tenaciously attach to and defend an identity, social, tribal, or national, at times more dearly than our very lives? What might be the childhood roots of identitarian politics, and egoic attachments to ethnicity, nationality, and authoritarianism?
What are the authoritarian parenting and education practices most likely to produce hostile social and political conservatism, and how might we combat these trends through more life-affirming, healthier social policy initiatives and childrearing reforms?
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13 июн 2024
