Affect and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism

Michalinos Zembylas is Professor of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies at the Open University of Cyprus as well as Honorary Professor and Chair for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. In 2016, he received the Distinguished Researcher Award in 'Social Sciences and Humanities' from the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation.

'This beautifully conceived and written book demonstrates how the rise of right-wing populism is grounded in the cultural politics of affect. It also highlights how this basic realization demands new ways of imagining the possibilities of democratic education.' Fazal Rizvi, Professor Emeritus, University of Melbourne, Australia, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

• Introduction; Part I. Scanning the Political Landscape of Right-Wing Populism: 1. The politics of shame in the age of Trump; 2. 'Trump Pedagogy' and the effective modes of right-wing populism; 3. The affective grounding of post-truth claims; 4. The (un)making of microfascism in schools and classrooms; Part II. Renewing Democratic Education: 5; Affirmative critique as a response to post-truth claims; 6. Agnostic emotiions/affects to counter far right rhetoric; 7. Reinvigorating the affective atmospheres of democratic education; Part III. Inventing Affective Pedagogies for Democratic Education: 8; Nuturing political emotions in the classroom; 9. Towards shared responsibility without invoking collective spirit; 10. Re-invisioning the sentimental in pedagogical discourse and practice; 11. For an anti-complicity pedagogy; Epilogue.