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Incompleteness
Donald Trump, Populism and Citizenship

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This is a study of how Donald J. Trump, his populist credentials notwithstanding, borrows without acknowledgment and stubbornly refuses to come to terms with his indebtedness. Taken together with mobility and conviviality, the principle of incompleteness enables us to distinguish between inclusionary and exclusionary forms of populism, and when it is fuelled by ambitions of superiority and zero-sum games of conquest.
Nyamnjoh challenges the reader to reflect on how stifling frameworks of citizenship and belonging predicated upon hierarchies of humanity and mobility, and driven by a burning but elusive quest for completeness, can be constructively transcended by humility and conviviality inspired by taking incompleteness seriously. Nyamnjoh argues that the logic and practice of incompleteness is a healthy antidote to name-calling and scapegoating others as undesirable outsiders, depending on the brand of populism at play.
Recognising incompleteness also helps to question sterile and problematic binaries such as those between elites and the impoverished masses among whom populists go to fish for political visibility, prominence and success.


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Francis B. Nyamnjoh is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.


Product details

Authors Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher Langaa Rpcig
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 31.01.2022
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
 
EAN 9789956552870
ISBN 978-9956-552-87-0
Pages 416
Dimensions (packing) 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.4 cm
Weight (packing) 672 g
 
Subjects Populism
African scholarship
populist politicians
 

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