Wednesday, 7 August 2019

8 books to help us re-imagine populism and privilege

a post by Gabriella Baldassin for the OUP blog


“Capitol Building Full View” by “noclip”. Public domain via WikimediaCommons.

The 115th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting’s conference theme is “Populism and Privilege.” It will highlight the self-identified populist movements around the globe, whose main unifying trait is their claim to champion the people against entrenched elites. This scholarship raises vital questions about whether some or all of these self-labeled populist movements represent understandable, legitimate responses to entrenched, self-serving privileges and perspectives of global and national elites or whether they instead represent efforts to preserve privileges of established groups against economic, demographic, and cultural transformations. The meeting will feature writers from around the world, whom collectively or individually speak on pressing issues surrounding this topic.

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Hazel’s comment:
Interesting but too much like hard work for me now that I’m retired and have no need to actually read anything much, Just find trusted sources and tell you, my reader.




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