Beyond Populism by Jeff Maskovsky

Beyond Populism by Jeff Maskovsky

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Critically examines the new destructive projects of resentment that have surfaced in the political spaces opened by neoliberalism’s failures, particularly since the financial collapse of 2008. It contextualises the recent history of the Global North — notably Brexit and the Trump election — among wider comparative politics.

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Beyond Populism by Jeff Maskovsky

Critically examines the new destructive projects of resentment that have surfaced in the political spaces opened by neoliberalisms failures, particularly since the financial collapse of 2008. It contextualises the recent history of the Global North notably Brexit and the Trump election among wider comparative politics.

“This book, on one of the major conundrums of our time, refuses foreclosure and widens the horizon” — Don Kalb, coeditor of Worldwide Mobilizations: Class Struggles and Urban Commoning

“A timely, engaged, and committed intervention that truly goes beyond existing scholarship on populism and produces insights of huge analytical and political potential.” — Paul Stubbs, coeditor of Making Policy Move: Towards a Politics of Translation and Assemblage “This outstanding volume is an essential and timely engagement with one of the most important—and little understood—developments in the current crisis.” — Leith Mullings, coeditor of Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology
Jeff Maskovsky is professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center and professor of urban studies at Queens College, the City University of New York.

Sophie Bjork-James is an assistant professor of the practice in anthropology at Vanderbilt University and has appeared on the NBC Nightly News, on NPR's All Things Considered, and in the New York Times.
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ISBN 13 9781949199468
ISBN 10 1949199460
Title Beyond Populism
Author Jeff Maskovsky
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher West Virginia University Press
Year published 2019-12-30
Number of pages 312
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.