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Focused on the emergence of US President Donald Trump, the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union, and the recruitment of Islamic State foreign ¿ghters from Western Muslim communities, this book explores the ways in which the decay and corruption of key social institutions has created a vacuum of intellectual and moral guidance for working people and deprived them of hope and an upward social mobility long considered central to the social contract of Western liberal democracy. Examining the exploitation of this vacuum of leadership and opportunity by new demagogues, the author considers two important yet overlooked dimensions of this new populism: the mobilization of both religion and masculinity. By understanding religion as a dynamic social force that can be mobilized for purposes of social solidarity and by appreciating the sociological arguments that hyper-masculinity is caused by social injury, Roose considers how these key social factors have been particularly important in contributing to the emergence of the new demagogues and their followers. Roose identi¿es the challenges that this poses for Western liberal democracy and argues that states must look beyond identity politics and exclusively rights-based claims and, instead, consider classical conceptions of citizenship.
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. Populism in the West: Democratic Fault lines and the Rise of the New Demagogues 3. Religion and Populism 4. Male Supremacism and Ideological Masculinity 5. Make Britain Great Again: Farage, Populism and Brexit 6. Trump: Masculinity and Religion 7. Western Islamic State Foreign Fighters and Jihadi Masculinity 8. Religion, Masculinity and the New Populism
About the author
Joshua M. Roose is a Senior Research Fellow in Politics and Religion at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of Political Islam and Masculinity: Australian Muslim Men.
Summary
Focusing on a number of recent events, this book explores the ways in which the decay and corruption of key social institutions has created a vacuum of guidance that has been exploited by new demagogues who mobilize both religion and masculinity to gain support.
