Beyond Populism

Jeff Maskovsky is professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center and professor of urban studies at Queens College, the City University of New York.Sophie Bjork-James is an assistant professor of the practice in anthropology at Vanderbilt University and has appeared on the NBC Nightly News, on NPR's All Things Considered, and in the New York Times.

“This book, on one of the major conundrums of our time, refuses foreclosure and widens the horizon.” — Don Kalb, coeditor of Worldwide Mobilizations: Class Struggles and Urban Commoning“A timely, engaged, and committed intervention that truly goes beyond existing scholarship on populism and produces insights of huge analytical and political potential.” — Paul Stubbs, coeditor of Making Policy Move: Towards a Politics of Translation and Assemblage “This outstanding volume is an essential and timely engagement with one of the most important—and little understood—developments in the current crisis.” — Leith Mullings, coeditor of Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology

• Acknowledgments 1. Introduction by Jeff Maskovsky and Sophie Bjork JamesPart 1: The Roots of Rage2. Populism and Its Others: After Neoliberalism by Don Robotham3. Americanism, Trump, and Uniting the White Right by Sophie Bjork-James4. Make in India: Hindu Nationalism, Global Capital, and 'Jobless Growth' by Preeti Sampat5. Blue Bloods, Parvenus, and Mercenaries: Authoritarianism and Political Violence in Colombia by Lesley GillPart 2: Multiplicities of Anger6. Frustrations, Failures and Fractures: Brexit and 'politics as usual' in the UK by John Clarke7. Postsocialist Populisms? by Gerald Creed and Mary N. Taylor8. Fascism, a Haunting: Spectral Politics and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Italy by Lilith Mahmud9. Other People's Race Problem: Trumpism and the Collapse of the Liberal Racial Consensus in the United States by Jeff Maskovsky10. Euphemisms We Die By: On Epochal Anxiety, Necropolitics, and “Green” Authoritarianism in the Philippines by Noah TheriaultPart 3: Unsettling Authoritarian Populisms11. Left Populism in the Heart of South America: From Plurinational Promise to a Renewed Extractive Nationalism by Carwil Bjork-James12. 'Fed Up' in Ethiopia: Emotions, civics education and anti-authoritarian protest by Jennifer Riggan13. Islamophobic Nationalism and Attitudinal Islamophilia by Nazia Kazi14. Afterword, by Jeff Maskovsky and Sophie Bjork-JamesList of ContributorsIndex