| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 207 pages) |
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Anthem series in citizenship and national identities |
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Anthem series in citizenship and national identities
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| Contents |
<P><span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. What Is the Problem?; 3. The People and Popular Sovereignty: Back to Basics, and Onward ... ; 4. The Nationalization of the People; 5. Fantasies and Paradoxes of Populism; 6. Myths and Misconceptions; 7. Sweden -- Intransigent Moralities at War in the People's Home; 8. Catalonia -- toward a State Truly Our Own!; 9. Hungary -- Righteous Revenge for Historic Humiliations; 10. Brexit -- between Despair and Delusion; 11. USA -- Normalizing a Superpower by Abnormal Means; 12. Extractions and Perspectives; References; Index."}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":769,"3":{"1":0}, "11":3,"12":0}">Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. What Is the Problem?; 3. The People and Popular Sovereignty: Back to Basics, and Onward ... ; 4. The Nationalization of the People; 5. Fantasies and Paradoxes of Populism; 6. Myths and Misconceptions; 7. Sweden -- Intransigent Moralities at War in the People's Home; 8. Catalonia -- toward a State Truly Our Own!; 9. Hungary -- Righteous Revenge for Historic Humiliations; 10. Brexit -- between Despair and Delusion; 11. USA -- Normalizing a Superpower by Abnormal Means; 12. Extractions and Perspectives; References; Index.</span></p> |
| Summary |
Populism may come across as little more than an extreme form of national belonging--nationalism run wild so to speak--a case for national psychologists or a kind of collective pathology. However, as so often, appearances are deceptive. "Paradoxes of Populism" argues that the far-from-random similarities with ordinary manifestations of nationalism should be approached not as a venture into the classical structures of nation-states and identities, but as a disruptive and destabilizing consequence of some of the constituent elements of sovereign nation-states becoming eroded and prised apart by contextual global processes and their agents. This book sets out to engage with these real-world challenges as well as their political and cultural interpretations in the populist fantasia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Populism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism & Patriotism.
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Populism
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Europa
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781785272158 |
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1785272152 |
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9781785272165 |
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1785272160 |
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