The Great Replacement Theory: Reactionary Politics & Racist Conspiracy Thinking

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 104 minutes

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In this crossover episode of Guerrilla History and Rev Left, Adnan (GH) and Breht (RLR) discuss the essays of an important new book studying many aspects of the history and contemporary expression of right wing demographic obsessions, anti-immigrant and fascistic patriarchies, and the politics of Islamophobia in Europe, North America and beyond with co-editors Luiz Manuel Hernandez Aguilar and Sarah Bracke. The book is The Politics of Replacement: Demographic Fears, Conspiracy Theories, and Race Wars, and is definitely worth picking up!

Sarah Bracke is Professor of Sociology of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is the principal investigator of the research project EnGendering Europe’s “Muslim Question”, funded by the Dutch Research Council. Follow her on twitter @SarahABracke

Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar is an associate researcher at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder, Germany. He holds a PhD in sociology by the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main. His research interests focus on racism, Islamophobia and antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and the far right.

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0:00.0	You remember Din-Ban-Ban-Ban-Ban-Bu?
0:07.0	No!
0:11.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warhead.
0:21.0	But they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.0	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global history of the activists left
0:36.8	and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:40.9	I'm one of your co-hosts, Adnan Hussein. Today I'm one of your co-hosts Adnan Hussein. Today I'm not joined by my usual
0:46.7	co-host Henry Hakamaki. He couldn't be with us today. We look forward of
0:52.0	course to having him back on again soon in the next episode
0:56.0	but I'm really delighted that we have a returning co-host a guest co-host, a guest co-host today.
1:04.0	Listeners, you know, Brett O'Shea.
1:06.8	Brett, it's great to have you back on.
1:08.8	It's absolutely wonderful to be back.
1:10.4	It's wonderful to work with you again, Adnan, and it's particularly good to be back on an episode such as this.
1:16.0	I know Adnan and I have done, you know, episodes on conspiracy theories and reactionary ideologies in the past, and it felt like a natural topic for you and I to collaborate on again.
1:26.0	So I'm happy to be here.
1:28.0	Absolutely, yeah, we had a few couple years ago a general discussion among us about right-wing
1:37.0	conspiracy theories and broad brush strokes but today we're actually really lucky because we have some genuine
1:45.4	experts who have done some serious scholarship on the issue. Before however I
1:50.8	introduce them and a little bit about the broad topic.
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