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Zusatztext White working-class resistance movements are convulsing politics in the U.S. and Europe Donald Trump, neo-fascism, anti-immigrant backlash, white identity politics. Whats driving it? Gests book gets to the core of the matter: the experience of marginalization and the sense of loss. He gets there, not just by analyzing data, but by actually talking to working class people and grasping the texture of their lives. Informationen zum Autor Justin Gest is Assistant Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government. He is also the author of Apart: Alienated and Engaged Muslims in the West. Klappentext It wasn't so long ago that the white working class occupied the middle of British and American societies. But today members of the same demographic, feeling silenced and ignored by mainstream parties, have moved to the political margins. In the United States and the United Kingdom, economic disenfranchisement, nativist sentiments and fear of the unknown among this group have even inspired the creation of new right-wing parties and resulted in a remarkable level of support for fringe political candidates, most notably Donald Trump. Zusammenfassung In this daring and insightful book, Justin Gest studies white working class people's attitudes and political behavior in the United States and Britain. Based on ethnographies and original surveys, the book offers a rich, nuanced and generalizable account of the marginality sensed by one of society's most misunderstood groups. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Chapter 1 Introduction: Political Marginality in the Post-Traumatic City Chapter 2 The New Minority: A Counter-narrative and its Politics Chapter 3 Peripheral Visions: The Politics of Displacement in East London Chapter 4 After the Fall: The Politics of Insecurity in Youngstown, Ohio Chapter 5 Institutions: Structures of a Crumbling Polity Chapter 6 Identities: Prisms of Culture and Class Chapter 7 Deprivations: Alternative Understandings of Social Hierarchy Chapter 8 Measuring Marginality: American and British Support for the Radical Right Chapter 9 The Untouchables: Who Can Appeal to the White Working Class? Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Regression Tables Appendix C: Interview Topic Guide Notes Works Cited Index ...
