The Comeback of Populism
Transatlantic Perspectives
Published on 26. September 2019
VI, 296 pages
978-3-8253-7894-3 (ISBN)
Description
"Populism" is a fuzzy term. It neither identifies a specific political program nor does it clearly situate political positions along a left-to-right spectrum. Instead, it refers to a strategy of communication and a style of political performance. This volume sheds light on the resurgence of populism in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Contemporary populisms need to be understood in their cultural and political specificities as well as in their global interrelation and outreach. They often share an authoritarianism along with anti-establishment resentments while posing as expressing the 'voice of the people.' Real or imagined scenarios of threat are met with a rhetoric of emancipation from victimization, yet this emancipatory zeal is couched in a rhetoric of exclusion and, even, nativism. Frank Decker, Akwugo Emejulu, D.S. Hillygus, Michael Hochgeschwender, Donatella Izzo, Carlos de la Torre, and Hans Vorländer (et al.) examine populism's simplifications and mystifications.
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Content
- Cover
- Note on the Editors
- Titel
- Imprint
- Table of Contents
- Heike Paul: Introduction
- Hans Vorländer: Populism and Modern Democracy - An Outline
- Frank Decker: Populism in Germany and Abroad
- Jürgen Gebhardt: "We the People": Popular Sovereignty, National Identity, and the Democratic Principle
- Michael Hochgeschwender: US-Populism in the Late Nineteenth Century
- Jack Zhou, D. Sunshine Hillygus, John Aldrich: Understanding the Trump Win: Populism, Partisanship, and Polarization in the 2016 Election
- Laura Vorberg: #BasketofDeplorables: Digital Imagined Communities, "Twitter"-Populism, and the Cross-Media Effects of Popular Political Social Media Communication in the 2016 US Presidential Election
- Michael Oswald: Jobs, Free Trade, and a Conspiracy: Trump's Use of Producerism
- Heike Paul: Authoritarian Populism, White Supremacy, and "Volkskörper"-Sentimentalism
- Simon Strick: Right-Wing World-Building: Affect and Sexuality in the 'Alternative Right'
- Akwugo Emejulu: Feminism for the 99%: Towards a Populist Feminism?
- Nicole Anna Schneider: Redefining "We, the People": Black Lives Matter and the Democratization of Political Culture
- Sascha Pöhlmann: Missing the People: Populist Aesthetics and Unpopular Resistance
- Donatella Izzo: Pop(e)ulism: Populist Miracles and Neoliberal Theologies
- Carlos de la Torre: What Can We Learn from Latin America to Understand Trump's Populism?
- Ursula Prutsch: Populism in Brazil: Getúlio Vargas and Jair Bolsonaro
- Notes on Contributors
- Backcover
