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<h1 class="book__title"> How the World Swung to the Right </h1>
<h2 class="book__subtitle"> Fifty Years of Counterrevolutions </h2>
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<p>By <a
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<p>Translated by Noura Wedell</p>
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<div class="book__blurb"> An examination of the reactionary,
individualist, cynical, and belligerent shift in global
politics to the right, implemented both by the right and the
establishment left. </div>
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<span><span>176</span> pp. | 7 in x 4.5 in</span> <span></span> <time
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<p> <b>An examination of the reactionary, individualist,
cynical, and belligerent shift in global politics to the
right, implemented both by the right and the establishment
left.</b> </p>
<p>Systemic, euphemized, insidious and structural violence has
increased. It is now objectively measurable by the gulf in
revenues, by subjective malaise, or by the menace of
ecological apocalypse, and also by their constant
exacerbation.—from <i>How the World Swung to the Right</i> </p>
<p>Despite a few zones of active resistance—the
alter-globalization movement, the Chiapas uprisings, the Arab
springs, and the recent resistance to racialized police
brutality and environmental and genocidal warfare in the
United States—the last half-century has been witness to an
undeniable global shift to the right. <i>How the World Swung
to the Right</i> provides a comprehensive overview of this
reactionary, individualist, cynical, and belligerent shift,
which often has been cloaked in the guise of entertainment and
good intentions. The counterrevolutions began with a first
phase of deregulation and ideological counter-attacks, and the
fall of the so-called “real” communisms. The 1990s inaugurated
a global biopolitical turn and the financialization of the
economy; the 2000s hammered in neoliberal gains through the
alliance of ultraliberalism with neoconservatism. These
policies were implemented, surprisingly, not only by the right
but often by the establishment left. Cusset argues that in the
face of this betrayal, conflict is the one thing we can still
salvage from the notion of the “left.” What we need today, he
contends, are new sites of conflict that multiply the causes
of struggle and the sites of mobilization, linking
socioeconomic struggle with questions of identity and the
urgency of ecology.</p>
<h3 class="tab-content__title--small">Authors</h3>
<h4 class="tab-content__title">François Cusset</h4>
François Cusset is Professor of American Studies at the
University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre, François Cusset is a writer
and intellectual historian. A specialist in contemporary
intellectual and political history, he is the author of <i>French
Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co Transformed
the Intellectual Life of the United States</i> and <i>The
Inverted Gaze: Queering the French Literary Classics in
America</i>.<br>
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