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 ...
June 29, 2021
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 ...
June 26, 2021
Eivor the Trickster: Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and the popularization of tricksters, anti-fascist neo-paganism, and Scandinavian mythology
ABSTRACT: In the latest installment of the Assassin’s Creed franchise, developer Ubisoft brings its acclaimed series to Viking-era England and casts ...
June 11, 2021
The Islamist Populism, Anti-Westernism and Civilizationism of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs
In Turkey under the rule of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Friday sermons of Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) frequently employ ...
May 19, 2021
Populism, Violence, and Vigilantism in Indonesia: Rizieq Shihab and His Far-Right Islamist Populism
DOWNLOAD PDF Muhammad Rizieq Shihab has been one of the most well-known faces of the far-right in Indonesia since the ...
June 23, 2021
What Went Wrong in Turkey?
DOWNLOAD PDF The volume titled Islamism, Populism, and Turkish Foreign Policy, edited by Burak Bilgehan Ozpek and Bill Park (Routledge, 2019), ...
May 11, 2021
Populist International (II) – Geert Wilders, an Agent of Anti-Islam Populist International Alliance
Geert Wilders’ populism is based on Islamophobia. His appeal is directly linked to the strong demand by Islamophobic groups for ...
April 2, 2021
Jair Bolsonaro: Far-Right Firebrand and Cheerleader for Dictatorship
DOWNLOAD PDF Jair Bolsonaro has become notorious for his incendiary comments on women and minority rights, and his misogynistic and ...
April 2, 2021
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Populist attacks on institutions as a reaction to the hyper-globalization
DOWNLOAD PDF This article explores the discrediting and decommissioning of the institutional foundations of the economy by populist leaders and ...
June 23, 2021
Populism and the rise of hybrid governance models: Saving the multilateral cooperation
DOWNLOAD PDF As compared to the existing top-down and rigid hierarchical governance models, the hybrid governance models (HGMs), which allow ...
April 2, 2021
Witnessing Beyond the Human*
The “poetry of witness” tradition ranges from Brecht’s Nazi-era ballads, Paul Celan’s broken German folk rhythms, and Muriel Rukeyser’s documentary ...
May 29, 2021
Snowflake Resistance: Protecting the Paris Agreement Against Populism
With a concentrated focus on climate activism and the Paris Agreement, this commentary will explore the juxtaposed trajectories of populism ...
May 11, 2021
Prof. Michael M. Bell: We have to understand knowledge as a social relation to understand authoritarian environmental populism
Talking about environmental populism and authoritarianism Professor Michael Mayerfeld Bell, who is also an author and a composer, explains the ...
April 30, 2021
Whose Anthropocene? Climate Grief and Climate Justice
This commentary considers problems of privilege in climate anxiety and grief, asking which humans have left the deepest marks in ...
April 5, 2021
Shoshone Nation leader Darren Parry: All decisions should be based on the ‘seventh generation’ principle
Darren Parry, the Vice-Chairman of the Northwestern Shoshone Nation, a Utah tribe with headquarters in Brigham City, calls for US ...
April 6, 2021
Everybody Wants to Be ‘Origines’: Nativism, Neo-pagan Appropriation, and Ecofascism*
DOWNLOAD PDF This paper explores the tensions that emerge in neo-pagan media and practices, when they appeal not only to ...
April 2, 2021
Access or Protection? Contested Lands in the American West
“Work and wilderness: surely, these two glare at each other across an intellectual clear-cut.” Daegan Miller, This Radical Land By Heidi ...
February 20, 2021
Greta Thunberg: Climate Populism As Productive Double?
This commentary considers aspects of populism that Greta Thunberg’s climate movement exposes and transforms. Dr. Hart also considers Thunberg’s “spectrum ...
February 8, 2021
The Islamic Defenders Front: The Face of Indonesia’s Far-Right Islamism
This commentary uses a case study of Indonesia’s Islamic Defenders Front (Front Pembela Islam, FPI) to explore crucial questions regarding ...
May 7, 2021
NMR: A Nordic neo-Nazi organization with aims of establishing totalitarian rule across Scandinavia
DOWNLOAD PDF Right-wing extremism and national socialism (Nazism) are not a new phenomenon in Sweden. White supremacists or neo-Nazis have a ...
May 11, 2021
Dr. Mette Wiggen: Racism Is Key to Understanding the Far-right Everywhere
Dr. Wiggen: "Without understanding or trying to understand the role of racism, I can’t see how you can understand the ...
March 30, 2021
France’s attack on academics is an attempt to silence debate on race
By launching an investigation into academic studies of race, gender, and postcolonial studies that supposedly corrupt society and universities, the French ...
March 1, 2021
Boogaloo Bois: Violent Anti-Establishment Extremists in Festive Hawaiian Shirts
DOWNLOAD PDF As a pro-Second Amendment movement, the Boogaloo Boys are easily recognizable because of their Hawaiian-themed Aloha shirts and ...
April 2, 2021
Music and the Far-Right Trance
By Heidi Hart On a cold-soaked January night in Berlin, less than a week after the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack in ...
February 3, 2021
The Proud Boys: Chauvinist poster child of far-right extremism
DOWNLOAD PDF The Proud Boys is a far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group who have been known to use violence against left-wing ...
April 2, 2021
Challenging far-right in education through culturally relevant pedagogy
Recognizing the political nature of education and teaching is important for teachers. It allows them to understand how their decisions ...
February 26, 2021
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 ...
July 17, 2021
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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 ...
May 6, 2021
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Right-wing populism, political Islam, and the Istanbul Convention