Unlearning the Anthropocene: Readings for Human Humility
Seeking the ways of keeping the world less cruel, if no less dangerous, in the critical decades ahead, Dr. Heidi...
Monster in the Sovereign Myth: Putin’s Russia and the Image of Leviathan
For those fleeing missiles and tanks in Ukraine, one despot’s emergency is the oppression of another sovereign state. In Putin’s...
Hearts, Trees, Hymns, and Hate: Populist Mixed Messages
The coincidence of far-right and anti-vaccine/mask protest cultures has been common in Germany, often erupting in racist rhetoric, too. In...
Populism and Islamophobia in Spain: from Podemos to Vox
Podemos boasts “inclusive populism in terms of minorities and vulnerable groups” in which we include Islam and Arab-Islamic immigration in...
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...