The Cultural Politics of Anti-Elitism.
This book examines the highly ambivalent implications and effects of anti-elitism. It draws on this theme as a cross-cutting entry point to provide transdisciplinary analysis of current conjunctures and their contradictions, drawing on examples from popular culture and media, politics, fashion, labo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (357 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. The cultural politics of anti-elitism between populism, pop culture and everyday life: an introductionMoritz Ege and Johannes Springer
- Part I. An anti-elite moment
- Chapter 2. Anti-elitism, populism and the question of the conjuncture John Clarke
- Chapter 3. The betrayal of the elites: populism and anti-elitismPaolo Gerbaudo
- Chapter 4. The transclasse and the common people: autosociobiographies and the anti-elitist imaginaryJens Wietschorke
- Part II. Politics, economy, inequality
- Chapter 5. What are we going to do about the rich? Anti-elitism, neo-liberal common sense and the politics of taxationRebecca Bramall
- Chapter 6. Criticism of elites and subjective social agency: a look at the workersStefanie Hurtgen
- Chapter 7. "Social rage" against the oligarchs: justice, Jews and dreams of unity in current Russia Olga ReznikovaPart III. Spatial and temporal differentiations
- Chapter 8. Countryside versus city? Anti-urban populism, Heimat discourse and rurban assemblages in AustriaBrigitta Schmidt-Lauber
- Chapter 9. Invoking urgency: emotional politics and two kinds of anti-elitism Alexandra Schwell
- Chapter 10. The elite as the political adversary: neo-liberalism and the cultural politics of HindutvaSanam RoohiPart IV. Anti-elitism and the (new) right
- Chapter 11. The heroic deed, the wrong word and the utopia of clarity: the discourse of Germany's New Right on elites and its links to popular culture.Sebastian Dumling
- Chapter 12. "Unpolitical in this time/truly one can no longer be so": The raw anti-elitism of hooligans in GermanyRichard Gebhardt
- Chapter 13. Nazi-Barbies: performing ultra-femininity against the "Feminist Elite" in the Alt-Right movementDiana WeisPart V. Pop culture and its politics
- Chapter 14. Celebrity and the displacement of class: the folkloristic ordinariness of Melania TrumpBreda Luthar
- Chapter 15. Who says who's cool, and how much is it worth? The convergence of elite luxury fashion with streetwear stylesSonja Eismann
- Chapter 16. Against hipsters, left and right: a figure of cultural elitism and social anxietyMoritz Ege and Johannes Springer
- Chapter 17. The ghost of Europe is shifting shape: how the film Folkbildningsterror intervenes in left debates around class vs. identity politics Atlanta Ina Beyer.