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Published in: HomeAuthoritarian rule shedding its populist skin in rural Cambodia
We 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 Turkey
In 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 US
There 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 Russia
Rural 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 populism
The 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 votes
Like 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 Africa
What 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 Colombia
The 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’ revival
It 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 populism
The 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 Brazil
Can 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 killing
Khan’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 populism
Sacrifice 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 democracy
The 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 distress
To 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 dimension
Religion, gender dynamics, place and cultural identity – all inform rising authoritarian populism in rural areas,...
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