TY - BOOK ID - 85527593 TI - Paradoxes of populism : troubles of the West and nationalism's second coming PY - 2020 SN - 1785272152 1785272160 1785272144 PB - London : Anthem Press, DB - UniCat KW - Populism. KW - Nationalism. KW - Consciousness, National KW - Identity, National KW - National consciousness KW - National identity KW - International relations KW - Patriotism KW - Political science KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Internationalism KW - Political messianism KW - Europa KW - USA KW - United States of America KW - Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika KW - Nordamerika KW - Amerika KW - United States KW - Etats Unis KW - Etats-Unis KW - Vereinigte Staaten KW - Estados Unidos de America KW - EEUU KW - Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika KW - Soedinennye Štaty Ameriki KW - SŠA KW - Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki Północnej KW - Hēnōmenai Politeiai tēs Boreiu Amerikēs KW - Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs KW - HēPA KW - Ēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs KW - ĒPA KW - Meiguo KW - Etats-Unis d'Amérique KW - US KW - Amerikaner KW - Konföderierte Staaten von Amerika KW - Abendland KW - Okzident KW - Europäer UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85527593 AB - 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. Hence, populism in all its varieties--and there are many, as the book demonstrates--is riddled with even more paradoxes and inconsistencies than mainstream nationalism itself--confusing causes and appearances, realities and fantasies, and turning the world inside out. The age of populism is truly the Second Coming of nationalism, and it has come with a vengeance. Its advent, however, happens in the background of real problems for millions of ordinary people in liberal-democratic states. This book sets out to engage with these real-world challenges as well as their political and cultural interpretations in the populist fantasia. ER -