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...
The Contours of Populism in Russia: An Elite Strategy to Preserve the Status Quo
Few scholars would concur with the assumption that populism as we conceptualize it in the West applies unproblematically in Russia....
Dog Whistles vs. Slide Whistles: Humor as Weapon and Resistance
Today’s satirical landscape has become more complicated than the past decade’s pattern of journalistic provocations, physical attacks, and right-wing reactions....
Right-wing populism, political Islam, and the Istanbul Convention
In the environment of rising right-wing populism, women in Turkey and across Europe are worried about losing their hard-earned legal...
The Silence of the Khans: The pragmatism of Islamist populist Imran Khan and his mentor Erdogan in persecuting Muslim minorities
Erdogan and Khan’s use of Islamist populism lays bare a highly pragmatic approach to addressing Muslim issues, rather than one...