Populism, Democracy, and the Humanities - Interdisciplinary Explorations and Critical Enquiries

Provides readers with an illustration of the role and relevance of the humanities in tackling contemporary political phenomena and social issues such as populism and its effects on democracy.

List of contents

PART I. Populism and the Democratic Culture
1. Populism, a Silent Counterrevolution?, Ann-Cathrine Jungar
2. The Lost Art of Democratic Debate: Econocracy, Populism, and the Humanities, Henrik Bohlin
3. Is Another World Possible? George Orwell on Freedom and Totalitarian Thinking, Jari Ristiniemi
PART II. Populism and Social Change
4. Comparative Education: From a Humanistic Explanatory Reasoning to a Statistical Reasoning for Solving Societal Problems, Daniel Pettersson
5. Alternative Images of the University in an Era of Universities as Politicized Social Good and Rational Organizations, Signe Jernberg
6. Populism and masculinity, Sarah Ljungquist and Malena Granhall Lahiki
PART III. The New Media and Populist Communication
7. Populism in the Digital Logic, Jan Sjölund
8. Populism and the Politics of the Media Spectacle in the US: Borders, Invasion, Infection, Markus Heide
9. Hero, Supergrrl, Queen Moron and Brainwashed Puppet: Female Celebrity Politicians/Politicized Celebrities and the Hyper-Mediatized Public Sphere, Anna Edin

PART IV. Populism and the Public Imagination
10. The Case of the Lost Sobriety - Documentaries and Society in Sweden in the 21^st Century, Per Vesterlund
11. Two Fictionalizations of American Populism: Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward 2000-1887 and Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here, Iulian Cananau

About the author

Edited by Iulian Cananau and Peder Thalén

Summary

Provides readers with an illustration of the role and relevance of the humanities in tackling contemporary political phenomena and social issues such as populism and its effects on democracy.

Product details

• Authors: Iulian Cananau, Iulian Thalen Cananau
• Assisted by: Iulian Cananau (Editor), Cananau Iulian (Editor), Peder Thalen (Editor), Peder Thalén (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781538160916
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6091-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy