Hip Hop as Public Pedagogy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra D'Urso
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Public Pedagogy ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Hip Hop Culture ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Welfare State

This chapter is a contribution to the literatures on hip hop and identity politics among two rappers of color in Scandinavia. Locating the artists’ pedagogical practices within global flows of resistance in hip hop culture, the concept of public pedagogy is employed for analyzing how these artists use hip hop as a medium for education and activism outside of formal educational institutions. The analysis focuses on counter-hegemonic representations of identity in the music of Adam Tensta and Eboi. The author argues that the two artists have situated themselves as public pedagogues and catalysts for social change and that they have confront right-wing populism and deconstruct Nordic notions of Otherness in their music In doing so, the artists provide nuanced counter-narratives that share insight into how global struggles for resources and neoliberal policies in the welfare state are brought to bear upon individuals living in the Nordic countries.

scholarly journals The rise of the post-religious right: Christianism and Secularism in the French Rassemblement National

2021 ◽  
pp. 135406882110468
Author(s):  
Tobias Cremer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Religious Right ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Policy Positions ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
Elite Interviews ◽  
Social Cleavage ◽  
The Relationship

This article investigates Western European right-wing populists’ ambiguous relationship with religion and secularism using the example of the French Rassemblement National (RN). Drawing on social cleavage theory, survey data and elite interviews with RN leaders, French mainstream politicians and Church authorities, it finds that the RN employs Catholicism and laïcité as cultural identity markers against Islam to mobilise voters around a new identity cleavage between liberal-cosmopolitans and populist-communitarians. However, instead of a rapprochement with Christian policy positions, ethics and institutions, this article finds that the RN is becoming increasingly secularist in its policies, personnel and electorate. This finding is of significant relevance for the broader populism and religion literature not only because it suggests the centrality of right-wing identity politics for populist parties, but also because it challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between right-wing populism and religion by providing evidence that in Western Europe the former is increasingly dominated by its ‘post-religious’ wing.

“They Can’t Take Away the Light”: Hip-Hop Culture and Black Youth’s Racial Resistance

2021 ◽  
pp. 0044118X2110010
Author(s):  
Nkemka Anyiwo ◽  
Daphne C. Watkins ◽  
Stephanie J. Rowley
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Black Adolescents ◽  
The United States ◽  
Music Videos ◽  
Sociopolitical Development ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Hip Hop Culture ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Insight Into

This study examined associations between Black youth’s engagement with hip-hop culture and their sociopolitical development (SPD) (e.g., critical social analysis, critical agency, and anti-racist activism). Participants included 499 Black adolescents recruited from across the United States through an online survey panel. Findings from regression analysis revealed the differential effects of rap media (music and music videos) and hip-hop media (e.g., blogs, video shows, radio) on youth’s SPD. Black youth who consumed more hip-hop media and who interacted with artists on social media had more agency to address racism and reported engaging in more racial-justice activism. The frequency of youth’s rap media usage was not consistently related to youth’s SPD. However, youth’s perceptions of rap (e.g., rap is empowering or misogynistic) were found to be directly associated with indicators of SPD. These findings provide insight into the potential influence of hip-hop culture beyond music on youth’s racial-justice beliefs and actions.

Indian Debates on the International Left: Selected Writings of Lajpat Rai

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirin Rai ◽  
Anand Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Progressive Change ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The One

This book traces the Indian Left’s engagement with the international communist debates of the 1960s and 1970s, shedding new light on the fault lines within the Left as well as on its international solidarities. Lajpat Rai argued for rethinking established leftist positions, seeking inspiration in experiment and developing creative approaches for the sustainability of socialist ideas and ideals. The contemporary relevance of these debates is significant as the Left remains without a sharp response to the rise of neoliberalism and right-wing populism in India, and a failure of the Left to recognize the challenges emanating from a strongly integrated and organized finance capital on the one hand and the increasingly self-aware identity politics on the other. Democratic opposition rather than a bureaucratic thinking needs to be the backbone of any meaningful Left struggle. Lajpat Rai’s passionate writing gives expression to the spirit and intensity of political debates at the time and the role of the Left intelligentsia in comprehending, from a committed socialist angle, the shifting paradigms of an unstable world to help bring about progressive change.

scholarly journals Right-wing populism’s (ab)use of the past in Italy and the Netherlands

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
Stefan Couperus ◽  
Pier Domenico Tortola
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Exploratory Analysis ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Deep Insight ◽  
The Past ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
Insight Into

Historical analysis is increasingly used as a tool in the study of present-day populism in Europe. The past is often explored as a source of analogies through which to examine today’s populism, and at other times in search of causal mechanisms to explain the current populist wave. In this paper we focus on a third kind of link between populism and the past, namely the ways populist movements and leaders use and abuse history and historical memory in their quest for mass support. This angle on the populism/history nexus can yield deep insight into the ideological make-up of these movements and their voters, and populism’s discursive dynamics and strategies.Focusing on contemporary right-wing populism and its approach to the dark past of European countries, the paper conducts an exploratory analysis that posits three ways in which the past is (ab)used by populists: (a) the positive reassessment of dark history; (b) the recourse to fake history; (c) the evocation and subsequent denial of links with the dark past. In examining each, we use examples taken from the cases of Italy and The Netherlands to check the plausibility of our categories across different national cases. 

scholarly journals Right Wing Populism and Hip Hop Music in Norway

JOMEC Journal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 0 (9) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Torgeir Uberg Naerland
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Hip Hop Music ◽  
Right Wing Populism

scholarly journals Women Hip-Hop Artists and Womanist Theology

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1063
Author(s):  
Angela M. Mosley
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
Hip Hop Culture ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
White American ◽  
European Standards ◽  
And Gender

Hip-Hop is a cultural phenomenon steeped in the conservative ideologies of individualism and capitalism. It sells a lifestyle and its most recent surge of rap music and popular culture spotlights Black women more than ever before. Although Black women have always been significant piece in Hip-Hop culture, their artistry has jolted its systemic capitalism and patriarchy to engage intersectionality through a discourse of classism, sexual orientation, and racism while upending White supremacy’s either:or binary. Applying the principles of Womanism, Black female Hip-Hop artists negotiate cultural identity politics as activists to innovatively expand thought on gender performance and produce a fusion of contemporary Blackness for the 21st century. Their artivism builds a safe environment of differences within society using conscious thought, language, and performative methods to defy the White American ethos of sexism, misogyny, and materialism. By garnering a better knowledge of their existence through Indigenous African spirituality, Black women reclaim ownership of their bodies from Western European standards, including race, and gender to challenge Christianity’s meaning of martyrdom. This act of reclamation provides a reformative tool of inclusion and being fluidity through Hip-Hop music and its culture.

The Populist Race: Neoliberalism Falling Behind, New Right Forging Ahead, the Left Stumbling Along

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 61-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingo Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
New Right ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
Working Classes ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
Neoliberal Restructuring ◽  
Class Divisions

Abstract This article starts from the observation that recurrent economic crises, deepening social divisions, and rising levels of insecurity undermine the persuasiveness of market populism, which had accompanied, and, indeed, contributed to, the rise of neoliberal capitalism. It goes on to explain left- and right-wing populisms that draw on different aspect of liberal ideas, and can therefore be understood as transformations of market populism to some degree. Politically, right-wing populism, the article argues, thrives because the left is divided along several lines that make it difficult to attract much of today’s discontent. The article looks at the divisions between globalists and sovereigntists, cosmopolitans and communitarians, and identity and class politics, respectively. It concludes with the idea that these divisions reflect different aspects of the unmaking of old working classes advanced by neoliberal restructuring, but also aspects of a possible making of new working classes. To further this, the left should put identity back into class politics, or highlight the presence of class divisions within identity politics.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document