The Cat and the Owl: Remembering Chris Marker

October ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 149 ◽  
pp. 181-191
Author(s):  
Paul Chan
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Tea Party ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Us ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
Familial Relations ◽  
Chris Marker

In October 2010, I emailed Chris to ask if he was interested in taking part in a special issue of E-flux Journal that art critic Sven Lütticken and I were editing. The issue focused on whether contemporary art had addressed the rise of right-wing populism in Europe, the US, and elsewhere, and how these largely nationalistic, homophobic, and xenophobic movements impacted culture and art. With the ascendance of the Tea Party, Sven and I wondered if it were possible to chart a genealogy of right-wing groups on both sides of the Atlantic and illuminate their familial relations.

scholarly journals Editorial

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Bénazech Wendling ◽  
Matthew Rowley
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
The Political ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Christian Culture ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
The Right

Populism, like nationalism, can be found on the right as well as on the left-wing of the political spectrum. However, current political debates demonstrate how in recent years, nationalist and populist movements have advanced the preservation of Christian “roots” against a global cosmopolitanism. Right-wing populism thus tends to present itself as a guardian of Christian culture, or Judeo-Christian culture. However, there is a struggle over the definition and the ownership of this religious heritage. Whilst it is certainly possible to identify sources within the Protestant tradition that may legitimise support for right-wing populism, the questions this struggle raises often relate to particular intersections of culture, theology, perspectives on history as well as political thought. This special issue explores and critiques these intersections, employing theological, historical, and sociological methods. While the main perspective is that of cross-disciplinary reflections on the fraught relationship between Protestantism and right-wing populism, it also examines the evolution of broader connections between Christianity and nationalism through time.

scholarly journals Start Here, Or Here, No Here: Introductions to Rethinking Education Policy and Methodology in a Post-Truth Era

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer R. Wolgemuth ◽  
Mirka Koro-Ljungberg ◽  
Travis M. Marn ◽  
Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie ◽  
Shaun M. Dougherty
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
Real Issue ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
Rethinking Education ◽  
Research And Policy

This special issue takes up urgent questions about how we education scholars might think and do policy and methodology in what has come to be known as the post-truth era. The authors in this special issue grapple with questions about the roles and responsibilities of educational researchers in an era in which research and policy have lost their moorings in T/truth. Collectively they reconceptualize educational research and policy in light of post-truths, anti-science sentiment, and the global rise of right-wing populism. At the same time we editors wonder whether post-truth is given a bad rap. Could post-truth have something productive to offer? What does post-truth open up for educational research and policy? Or, is the real issue of this special issue a collective despair of our own insignificance and obsolescence in the wake of post-truth. Whatever we editors and authors aimed to do, this special issue will not be heard by post-truth adherents and partisans. Perhaps its only contribution is encouragement to stay with the troubles of a post-truth era, even as we despair the consequences of our research and policy creations.

Right-wing populism and market-fundamentalism

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter O. Ötsch ◽  
Stephan Pühringer
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Us ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
Economic Thinking

Abstract The article compares market fundamentalism and right-wing populism on the basis of its core patterns of thinking and reasoning. Based on an analysis of the work of important founders of market fundamental economic thinking and the arguments brought forward by leading right-wing populist we find many similarities of these two concepts in their "inner images". Thus, we develop a scheme of the similar dual social worlds of right-wing-populism and market fundamentalism and offer some recent examples of market fundamentalism and right-wing populism mutually reinforcing each other or serving as a gateway for each other. We then apply our scheme for the analysis of the recent political developments and its ideological roots in the US under Donald Trump. The main conclusion of this article is that market fundamentalism and right-wing populism together must be seen as two mutually reinforcing threats to democracy in the 21st century.

A Religious Vaccination? How Christian Communities React to Right-Wing Populism in Germany, France and the US

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Tobias Cremer
Keyword(s):  
Party System ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Quantitative Studies ◽  
The Us ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
Mainstream Party ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Western Democracies

Abstract Right-wing populists across Western democracies have markedly increased references to Christianity in recent years. While there is much debate about how and why they have done so, less attention has been paid to how Christian communities react to this development. The present study addresses this gap through a comparative analysis of Christian responses to right-wing populist politics in Germany, France and the US. It relies on quantitative studies, survey data and the qualitative analysis of 39 in-depth interviews with right-wing populist leaders, mainstream party politicians and church officials. The findings of this analysis suggest a potential ‘religious vaccination effect’ among Christian voters against right-wing populism but underline its connection to elite actor behaviour. Specifically, the availability of a ‘Christian alternative’ in the party system, as well as religious leaders’ willingness and ability to create a social taboo around the populist right seem critically to impact religious immunity to populism.

On agonistic narratives of migration

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-563
Author(s):  
Hans Lauge Hansen
Keyword(s):  
European Identity ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Complex Field ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
Chantal Mouffe ◽  
Migration Narratives ◽  
The Us ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
And Migration

The aim of this article is to apply the concept of agonism to the study of migration and migration narratives in order to shed new light upon a complex field and contribute to the countering of neo-nationalist right-wing populism. Following Chantal Mouffe, the author argues that agonistic narrative traits can be found in already existing cultural products that are able to unsettle the existing identity positions of the hegemonic European identity discourse pitting the national citizen against the figure of the migrant, and/or create new identity positions and alliances across the ‘us’–’them’ divide. Agonistic narratives of migration are stories able simultaneously to counter the two complementary and hegemonic discourses on migration, the antagonistic, neo-nationalist discourse representing the migrant as a threat, and the humanitarian discourse representing the migrant as a victim. Instead, agonistic narratives aim to forge alliances through protest and activities against inequality and discrimination.

scholarly journals Right-wing populism in Europe & USA

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Wodak ◽  
Michał Krzyżanowski
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Right Wing Populism

Abstract In recent years and months, new information about the rise of right-wing populist parties (RWPs) in Europe and the USA has dominated the news and caused an election scare among mainstream institutions and politicians. The unpredictable successes of populists (e.g. Donald Trump in the USA in 2016) have by now transformed anxieties into legitimate apprehension and fear. This Special Issue addresses the recent sudden upsurge of right-wing populism. It responds to many recent challenges and a variety of 'discursive shifts' and wider dynamics of media and public discourses that have taken place as a result of the upswing of right-wing populism (RWP) across Europe and beyond. We examine not only the nature or the state-of-the-art of contemporary RWP but also point to its ontology within and beyond the field of politics and argue that the rise and success of RWP is certainly not a recent or a momentary phenomenon.

scholarly journals Quiet Politics and the Power of Business: New Perspectives in an Era of Noisy Politics

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
Glenn Morgan ◽  
Christian Lyhne Ibsen
Keyword(s):  
Future Research ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Policy Area ◽  
The Public ◽  
Inherent Property ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Right Wing Populism ◽  
Left And Right

This introduction summarizes the main contributions of this special issue titled “Quiet Politics and the Power of Business: New Perspectives in an Era of Noisy Politics.” The four articles in the issue use and extend Culpepper’s influential concept of “quiet politics” according to which business is able to shape policies and regulations when issues are of low salience to the public and politicians. The issue takes Culpepper’s analysis further in ways that respond to the rise of noisy politics over the last few years, often associated with new strident forms of left- and right-wing populism. Three contributions are made. First, the articles show that salience is not an inherent property of a policy area but is socially constructed. Second, a variety of strategies are described that business uses when trying to keep politics quiet. Third, strategies are affected by the structure of business, which varies across types of capitalism. Future research can use these insights to extend our understanding of the limits, strategies, and dynamics of quiet politics across political economies.

scholarly journals Economic Populism and Producerism: European Right-Wing Populist Parties in a Transatlantic Perspective

Populism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilles Ivaldi ◽  
Oscar Mazzoleni
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tea Party ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Right Wing Populism

Abstract This article aims to develop a conceptual framework to address the economic dimension of right-wing populism. Moving beyond classic left-right economics and the divide between economic and cultural approaches, it argues that the political economy of right-wing populists is intertwined with cultural values in the construction of the ‘true’ people as an economic community whose well-being is in decline and under threat, and therefore needs to be restored. Looking at populist traditions across Europe and the United States, the paper emphasizes the significance of ‘producerist’ frames in economic populism. This is illustrated through an empirical analysis of differences and similarities in the economic policies and discourses of three established right-wing populist parties based in Europe (FN, SVP and UKIP), and the Tea Party and Donald Trump in the United States. We find that economic populist frames are common to all of the parties under scrutiny, albeit subject, however, to different interpretations of the producerist antagonism and groups. Our findings confirm that the intersection between economic populism and producerism provides a new—and fruitful—perspective on right-wing populism, while simultaneously demonstrating the relevance of a transatlantic approach to the study of the populist phenomenon.

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