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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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), ...
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 ...
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 ...
Digital Populism: The Internet and the Rise of Right-wing Populism
This article is an attempt to critically assess the utilization of internet platforms by right-wing populists. Analysing both primary and ...
Are deindustrialization and European integration fostering populism?
Deindustrialization and deeper European integration seem to be two of the several hazardous factors leading to the development of populism ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Witnessing Beyond the Human*
DOWNLOAD PDF The “poetry of witness” tradition ranges from Brecht’s Nazi-era ballads, Paul Celan’s broken German folk rhythms, and Muriel ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Why Race Still Matters?
Alana Lentin's book Why Race Still Matters offers key insights on how racism is denied and why naming racism is seen ...
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 ...
Islamophobia and the pandemic: How these two salient public issues have invigorated the contemporary Australian far-right
The anti-Islam groups have played a significant role in the trajectory of far-right activity in Australia. However, the way these groups operate signifies a ...
Homegrown Hate – Why White Nationalists and Militant Islamists are Waging War Against the United States by Sara Kamali
Dr. Sara Kamali’s book illustrates why strategies to countering extremism are not effective and how they lead to the surveillance of ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Climate Satire and Anti-science Populism in Don’t Look Up