The rise of authoritarian, nationalist forms of populism and the implications for rural actors and settings is one of the most crucial foci for critical agrarian studies today, with many consequences for political action. Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World reflects on the rural origins and consequences of the emergence of authoritarian and populist leaders across the world, as well as on the rise of multi-class mobilisation and resistance, alongside wider counter-movements and alternative practices, which together confront authoritarianism and nationalist populism. The book includes 20 chapters written by contributors to the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI), a global network of academics and activists committed to both reflective analysis and political engagement. Debates about ‘populism’, ‘nationalism’, ‘authoritarianism’ and more have exploded recently, but relatively little of this has focused on the rural dimensions. Yet, wherever one looks, the rural aspects are key – not just in electoral calculus, but in understanding underlying drivers of authoritarianism and populism, and potential counter-movements to these. Whether because of land grabs, voracious extractivism, infrastructural neglect or lack of services, rural peoples’ disillusionment with the status quo has had deeply troubling consequences and occasionally hopeful ones, as the chapters in this book show. The chapters in this book were originally published in The Journal of Peasant Studies.
Author(s): Ian Scoones, Marc Edelman, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Lyda Fernanda Forero, Ruth Hall, Wendy Wolford, Ben White
Series: Critical Agrarian Studies
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge | Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 526
Tags: Rural Conditions; Sociology, Rural; Populism
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Preface
1 Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism
2 Counterrevolution, the countryside and the middle classes: lessons from five countries
3 People and places left behind: work, culture and politics in the rural United States
4 Power and powerlessness in an Appalachian Valley – revisited
5 The rural roots of the rise of the Justice and Development Party in Turkey
6 Rural rage: right-wing populism and Patriot movement in the United States
7 Neoliberal developmentalism, authoritarian populism, and extractivism in the countryside: the Soma mining disaster in Turkey
8 The vanishing exception: republican and reactionary specters of populism in rural Spain
9 Understanding the silent majority in authoritarian populism: what can we learn from popular support for Putin in rural Russia?
10 Authoritarian populism in rural Belarus: distinction, commonalities, and projected finale
11 Land grabbing and the making of an authoritarian populist regime in Hungary
12 Authoritarian populism and neo-extractivism in Bolivia and Ecuador: the unresolved agrarian question and the prospects for food sovereignty as counter-hegemony
13 Pockets of liberal media in authoritarian regimes: what the crackdown on emancipatory spaces means for rural social movements in Cambodia
14 Confronting agrarian authoritarianism: dynamics of resistance to PROSAVANA in Mozambique
15 Populism from above and below: the path to regression in Brazil
16 ‘They say they don’t see color, but maybe they should!’ Authoritarian populism and colorblind liberal political culture
17 Agrarian anarchism and authoritarian populism: towards a more (state-)critical ‘critical agrarian studies’
18 ‘Actually existing’ right-wing populism in rural Europe: insights from eastern Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and Ukraine
19 Unpacking ‘authoritarian populism’ and rural politics: some comments on ERPI
20 From ‘populist moment’ to authoritarian era: challenges, dangers, possibilities
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