Confronting the International Political Sociology of the New Right

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“Pan-African thought is by its very nature international thought, concerned simultaneously with the welfare of Africans on the continent, with continental integration, and with Africa's place in the world ( Abrahamsen 2020 ).”

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“Sovereignty, in other words, trumped unity ( Abrahamsen 2020 ).”

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“At the same time, the PanAfricanism of the AU is closer to the radical expressions of unity promoted by the early Pan-Africanists, underlining the fluid, evolving nature and multiple expressions of PanAfrican ideology ( Abrahamsen 2020 ).”

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“As such, Pan-Africanism, like any ideology, 'is far from monolithic or unified, but contains internal tensions and fissures, multiple variations, and inflections, all adapting and mutating in interaction with global events' ( Abrahamsen 2020 , 57).”

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“Pushing not only for more nationalistic, sovereigntist economic policies and tighter immigration controls, transnational rightwing movements around the world are also joining forces to ensure more conservative approaches to LGBTQ + rights, family policy, and abortion both within their own countries and within key multilateral institutions like the UN ( Abrahamsen et al. 2020 ; Bob 2012 ).”

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“Calls for unity aside, Pan-Africanism also contains strong nativist strands ( Abrahamsen 2020 ), and African politics has struggled with issues of nativism and other forms of violent identity-based politics that are now understood as wider global challenges beyond the continent.”