Understanding the Populist Shift: Othering in a Europe in Crisis

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
List of figures......Page 10
List of tables......Page 11
Notes on contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 17
1 Introduction: the concept and its definitions......Page 18
2 Populism in historical perspectives......Page 30
3 Neo-fascist and neo-Nazi constellations: the cases of Italy and Austria......Page 48
4 Populist othering and Islamophobia......Page 67
5 Networks and alliances against the Islamisation of Europe: the case of the Counter-Jihad Movement......Page 87
6 Exclusive intersections: constructions of gender and sexuality......Page 121
7 Men’s parties with women leaders: a comparative study of the right-wing populist leaders Pia Kjærsgaard, Siv Jensen and Marine Le Pen......Page 139
8 Re/De/constructing far-right youth: between the lost generation and contestatory citizenship......Page 167
9 Democracy, post-democracy and the populist challenge......Page 196
Index......Page 214