The anti-fascist urban experience is traditionally portrayed through symbolic spatial politics and confrontational tactics – marches, demonstrations, street battles, and anti-fascist block tactics. These efforts aim to challenge fascist territorial claims in cities, resulting in the creation of “temporary autonomous zones” that block fascists from engaging with the broader public. However, this traditional view offers only a fragment of the anti-fascist urban experience.
This interdisciplinary conference will expand this narrow understanding, exploring the city itself as a multilayered space of resistance, solidarity, and community-building. It will examine how the city evolves through the ongoing interplay of past struggles, present actions, and collective projections of an imagined anti-fascist urban future. The conference asks: What do anti-fascist cities look like? How have anti-fascists envisioned and practiced the liberation of urban communities from fascism, racism, sexism, and structural oppression?
Imagining the Anti-Fascist City Conference Brochure
Important deadlines and dates
- Abstract submission deadline: 1 February 2025
- Notification of acceptance: 15 February 2025
- Paper submission: 22 May 2025
- Registration opens: April 2025