Feeling(s) Caught Between the Austrian First Republic and Fascism

Abstract

Abstract: What if fascism were a feeling first and only later a category of political history? The history of emotions offers scholars of Austria a unique lens with which to assess and explore the Ständestaat period (1933/34–1938) in a way that decenters terminology and instead questions affective economies. This article argues that Austrian para-fascism might better be understood through the emotional regimes, communities, and frontiers created in the 1930s.