Extremist criminal offenses rise in Germany, intelligence report suggests
Right-wing extremism increased in Germany in 2019, the country’s domestic intelligence agency has reported, with over 32,000 extremists identified. The report ...
Germany’s far-right AfD fires official over a racist migrant comment
Germany’s populist far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party fired an official on September 28, 2020 who had been caught on a hidden camera ...
Dutch appeals court clears far-right leader Wilders of inciting hatred
Dutch politician Geert Wilders was acquitted by an appeals court on September 4, 2020 of discrimination, in a partial legal victory for ...
Climate Satire and Anti-science Populism in Don’t Look Up
This commentary reviews the 2021 film Don’t Look Up, an allegory about climate-crisis apathy in an imagined populist future in ...
Reciprocal populism: The interaction of right-wing anti-Islam movements and radical Islamist groups in Europe
Despite their ostensible opposition to one another, extreme right-wing, anti-Islam movements and radical Islamist groups like “Sharia for Europe” share ...
Youth Populism and the Aesthetics of Dread in Je suis Karl
Right-wing populism does not need staged violence to attract new recruits. Online rabbit-holes and the “smart branding” of a new ...
Eating and Environmental Consciousness
The effects of global warming are no longer part of an abstract, future dystopia or a hard-to-comprehend “hyperobject.” Summer 2021, ...
Grief, Rage, and Courage at COP26
At the end of the conference, the 1.5-degree goal still appears far out of reach. “Beyond that threshold,” scientific consensus ...
Ethnographic Reflexivity: Why listening to individuals matters in an age of populistic cacophony
Populism and migration studies should be a vital voice to people and should include individual narratives and multi-perspectival methodologies into ...
“Ruin Porn,” the Populist Apocalypse, and Art as Antidote
This commentary considers several populist frameworks for apocalyptic thinking in Europe and the US, in historical and environmental perspective, with ...
The populist zeitgeist in Turkey: A Cornelian dilemma ahead
Increasingly, Turkey is experiencing a deep wave of xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment because of a rapid increase in refugee numbers ...
Prof. Pappas: We need creative leaders with realistic agendas against populism
Professor Takis Pappas: “I think that exactly as populism begins with some extraordinary leaders with radical ideas about how to ...
Professor Carlos de la Torre: Populism is here to stay
“When populists included it was under the condition of surrendering to the leader conceived as the embodiment of the will ...
Professor Ben-Ghiat: Any society can be susceptible to strongman figures if it’s the right time
Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat: “The most successful of authoritarian rulers are the ones who know how to play on that ‘we.’ And they make ...
Prof. Anne Gjelsvik: One topic that’s really important to someone can lead to extremism
“I think the words that we use are very important. Quite a lot of studies on the Capitol , on ...
Prof. Kurt Weyland: Elections in Turkey are held but manipulated
The Turkish regime is competitive-authoritarian a la Levitsky and Way (2010, Cambridge UP). Elections are held but manipulated, with massive ...
Prof. Ruth Wodak: I am very worried about the future of Europe
“Currently, lying doesn’t matter. That is what I call ‘post shame’. You don’t have to be ashamed, you don’t have ...
Professor Kaltwasser: Turkey cannot be considered a democratic system anymore
Professor Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser: “The crucial question is what will happen in Turkey after Erdogan? To what extent does the ...
Prof. Bertjan Verbeek: Populist foreign policy weakens soft power
Discussing the impact of the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) on the country’s foreign policy, Professor Verbeek highlighted his observation ...
Climate Satire and Anti-science Populism in Don’t Look Up