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＜2023年度第2回研究会（通算第24回）オンライン研究会＞
日 時： 2023年7月16日（日）10時〜11時半
スピーカー：Lauren F. Turek 氏 ー Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut)
形式：オンライン（Zoom）
タイトル：To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Christian Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations
要旨：When American evangelicals flocked to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century to fulfill their Biblical mandate for global evangelism, their experiences abroad led them to engage more deeply in foreign policy activism at home. That engagement wrought changes that influenced American relations with other states, reshaped the lives of Christians abroad, and contributed to a reorientation of U.S. human rights policy. This talk, based on Dr. Turek's new book To Bring the Good News to All Nations, will explain how the revival in foreign missionary work contributed to a groundswell of grassroots evangelical foreign policy activism beginning in the 1970s. While many Americans are familiar with the role that white evangelical Christians played in shaping domestic politics, they may be less aware of their wide-ranging influence on U.S. foreign policy. Dr. Turek will delve into this phenomenon by discussing a few brief case studies, including the story of U.S. evangelical activism on issues related to religious freedom and the repression of religious minorities in the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States in the 1980s through the 1990s. The talk will explain how evangelical perspectives on human rights abuses in the Soviet bloc and the Global South interacted with the revival of human rights activism that began in the 1970s to shape U.S. foreign relations through the end of the Cold War and beyond.
＜2023年度第1回研究会（通算第23回）オンライン研究会＞
日 時： 2023年6月6日（火）18時〜19時半
スピーカー：Patricia Ventura 氏 ー Spelman College
タイトル：“Far White” Anxiety about the Neoliberal American Family: Analyzing Tucker Carlson, JD Vance, and White Ethnonationalism in the United States
The far right---a category and a term that has become terrifyingly ubiquitous around the globe and must be interrogated---clearly does not work in isolation from other ideologies. In this paper, I explore the important ideological ties between neoliberal capitalism and white ethno-nationalism in the United States. The framework I use for this exploration is the “far white,” a subjectivity that Edward Chan and I theorize in our book White Power and American Neoliberal Culture.
The "far white" is our term for the estimated 21 million Americans who actively endorse the use of political violence but are not members of any violent white power group (such as, for example, the Proud Boys or the Ku Klux Klan). Politically, the belief that most commonly unites them is a fear of a conspiracy called "the great replacement" in which white people fear losing their demographic and social position in Western nations because they are not producing enough children to compete with people from other parts of the world.
In this presentation, I want to explore the socially conservative rhetoric that unites the far white and their paranoia about Great Replacement with a phenomenon that is much better understood---the economic and social priorities of American neoliberals who are trying to erode the social welfare state and keep more of their wealth. Both groups hope to redirect social reproduction functions to the private family. Neoliberals do this to decrease taxes; the far white do so in order to mobilize anxieties about the white patriarchal family. I study these efforts by analyzing media connected to ultra conservative figures such as J.D. Vance (U.S. Senator, popular writer, and venture capitalist) and Tucker Carlson (former FOX News personality and right-wing celebrity).
主催：中央大学人文科学研究所ー「南北アメリカの歴史・社会・文化」チーム
後援：アメリカ学会、American Studies Association
助成：日米友好基金 （Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission）
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