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The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South is the first academic study-adopting an interdisciplinary and international perspective-to offer a comprehensive and groundbreaking framework for understanding the emergence and consolidation of different radical-right movements in Global South countries in the twenty-first century.
List of contents
Introduction: A New Radical Right in the Global South? 1. Fascisms: A View from the South 2. India’s Fascist Democracy 3. Left, Right, Left: Moving Beyond the Binary to Think Fascism in Africa 4. Populism in Emerging Economies: Authoritarian Politics, Labour Precariousness, and Aspirational Classes in Brazil, India, and the Philippines (BIP) 5. Populist Foreign Policies in the Global South: Comparing the Far-right Identity-set Between Brazil and India 6. The Rise of the New Far Right in Latin America: Crisis of Globalization, Authoritarian Path Dependence and Civilian-Military Relations 7. Populism and Media in Duterte’s Philippines 8. Political Mobilization in an Era of ‘Post-Truth Politics’: Disinformation and the Hindu Right in India (1980s–2010s) 9. Gender and Sexuality (Still) in Dispute: Effects of the Spread of ‘Gender Ideology’ in Brazil 10. Archives of Neofascism: Charting Student Historical Debt in a Neoliberal University in South Africa 11. Denialism as Government: Trust and Truth in a Post-neoliberal Era 12. Notes on the Expressive Forms of the New Rights: A Dispute over the Subjectivity of the Majorities
About the author
Rosana Pinheiro-Machado is an anthropologist and a Professor in the School of Geography at University College Dublin, Ireland. She is the Principal Investigator of the project Flexible Work, Rigid Politics In Brazil, India, and the Philippines, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), Consolidator Grant.
Tatiana Vargas-Maia is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil.
Summary
The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South is the first academic study—adopting an interdisciplinary and international perspective—to offer a comprehensive and groundbreaking framework for understanding the emergence and consolidation of different radical-right movements in Global South countries in the twenty-first century.
