In this era of populist insurgency breaking the mold of democratic politics, two movements clashed.They represented opposite sides of the political spectrum, one emancipatory, the other exclusionary. One may be identified as feminism, the other as populism. This essay analyzes both concepts and explores their connection.
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Front Sociol
February 2021
Political Science Department, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States.
By understanding populism as an "anti-" politics we can see two strands of populism: the -democratic strand which marginalizes certain groups of people and the anti-structural injustice strand coming from marginalized people. The potential of this anti-structural injustice activism encourages activists to expand their coalitional politics and government and philanthropic donors to see the import of funding and otherwise supporting work against structural injustice that explicitly takes on patriarchy and racism, among the full gamut of ideologies based on hierarchy and injustice.
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December 2020
Department of Government and Justice Studies, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, United States.
Although media images typically present the alt right as a "manosphere," white women continue to participate actively in white supremacist movements. Alt right women's presence as "shield maidens," "fashy femmes," and "trad wives" serves to soften and normalize white supremacy, often in ironic and insidious ways. In this essay, I examine the continued investment of white women in these traditional sex/gender roles espoused by the alt right.
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February 2021
Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
The essay considers populism in the present moment in relation to Black Lives Matter as a popular protest movement. Popular protest movements demand that government change; populism in the present moment seeks to act extra-governmentally, and to this end relies on violence in the face of peace protest movement. This violence demonstrates the white patriarchalism of contemporary populism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this era of populist insurgency breaking the mold of democratic politics, two movements clashed.They represented opposite sides of the political spectrum, one emancipatory, the other exclusionary. One may be identified as feminism, the other as populism.
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