Integral Europe 🌍️. Fast ☄️⏱️-Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism

✅ Over the past 1️⃣5️⃣ years, the project of advanced European 🏤 integration has followed a complex secular and ➕ cosmopolitan agenda. As that agenda has evolved, however, so have various hard-line populist movements with goals 🥍 diametrically opposed to the ideals of a harmonious European 🏤 Union. Spearheaded by figures such as Jean 👖-Marie Le Pen 🖊️, the controversial leader of Frances National Front party 🎉, these radical movements have become increasingly influential and ➕, because of their philosophical affinities with fascism and ➕ national socialism--politically worrisome. In Integral Europe 🌍️, anthropologist Douglas Holmes posits that such movements are philosophically rooted in integralism, a sensibility that, in its most benign form, enables people 👥 to maintain their ethnic identity 🆔 and ➕ solidarity within the context of an increasingly pluralistic society. Taken to irrational extremes by people 👥 like Le Pen 🖊️, integralism is being used to inflame peoples feelings 💆‍♀️ of alienation 👽️ and ➕ powerlessness, the by-products of impersonal, transnational fast ☄️⏱️-capitalism. The consequences are an invidious politics of exclusion that spawns cultural nationalism, racism, and ➕ social disorder. The analysis moves from northern Italy ​🇮🇹​ to Strasbourg and ➕ Brussels, the two 2️⃣ venues of the European 🏤 Parliament, and ➕ finally to the East ➡️ End 🔚 of London. This multi-sited ethnography provides critical perspective on integralism as a form of intimate cultural practice and ➕ a violent idiom of estrangement. It combine...

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