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Published in: HomeAuthoritarian rule shedding its populist skin in rural CambodiaWe won’t know until the July 2018 elections whether this radical redrawing of the Cambodian political landscape is a...
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Published in: HomeThe Third Great Depression and rise of the far-right: experiences from TurkeyIn Turkey the Islamist right garners support in rural areas by promoting social welfare and subsidy programmes. The...
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Published in: HomeA redneck revolt? Radical responses to Trumpism in the rural USThere are radical responses to Trumpism in rural and working class white communities. The story of one of them,...
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Published in: Home‘Authoritarian corpopulism’ supports the rise of sugarcane and oil palm agribusinesses in Guatemala‘Authoritarian corpopulism’ relies on persuasion and selective violence, cloaked in the rule of law and backed by...
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Published in: HomeVladimir Putin and the rural roots of authoritarian populism in RussiaRural Russians are the major supporters of the authoritarian regime of Vladimir Putin. How can we explain this...
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Published in: HomeOngoing conversations: realising an emancipatory rural politics in the face of authoritarian populismThe need for a new narrative to counter authoritarian populism, one that is popular, inclusive and progressive was a...
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Published in: HomeCambridge Analytica hacked our social lives to win elections - but more is at stake than votesLike all good propagandists, CA’s currency is emotion: not only hopes and dreams, but fear and loathing.
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Published in: HomeState, corporate and chiefly power is being contested from below in South AfricaWhat is the transformative potential that emerges from these struggles around land?
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Published in: HomeAfter the peace agreement, authoritarian extractivism persists as rural development in ColombiaThe results of the recent legislative elections only reinforce the authoritarian and militarised model of the last...
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Published in: HomeHow populism directed against minorities is used to prop up Myanmar’s ‘Democratic’ revivalIt is delusional to expect that this unfettered racism will stop there. It must be confronted. Shockingly, though,...
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Published in: HomeThe demise of emancipatory peasant politics? Indonesian fascism and the rise of Islamic populismThe death of class-based rural movements in Indonesia has entrapped rural resistance in the clutches of market power.
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Published in: HomeAuthoritarian elitism and popular movements in BrazilCan a president institute radical popular change alongside structural inequality and a militarized elite? The...
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Published in: openIndiaIslamophobia gastronomica - on the food police, rural populism and killingKhan’s killing was an act of adjudication over citizenship, culture, gender and life, in a form that’s becoming...
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Published in: HomeSacrifice zones in rural and non-metro USA: fertile soil for authoritarian populismSacrifice zones – abandoned, economically shattered places – are spreading in historically white rural areas and...
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Published in: HomeWhy #DefendAfrin? Confronting authoritarian populism with radical democracyThe war in Afrin starkly highlights how the dynamics of power and resource grabs by the US, Russia, and their...
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Published in: openIndiaHindu authoritarianism and agrarian distressTo defeat populist-nationalist forms of communal authoritarianism in India, we have to fight against more than just...
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Published in: HomeConfronting authoritarian populism: the rural dimensionReligion, gender dynamics, place and cultural identity – all inform rising authoritarian populism in rural areas,...
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