Etiqueta: english
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Populism, immigration, and the crisis of Fake News in Contemporary Democracies
This text presents a lite approach to the issue of fake news, considering the case study of the german populist and far-right party AfD and the spread of panic among Germans against immigrants and refugees.
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The Age of Post-Truth
The post presents a systematic approach to the concept of post-truth.
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Whiteness, Populism and Working-Class
This text discusses how populism constructed the idea of the working-class based on racial criteria of “whiteness”.
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Concerning Culture Wars
The concept of Culture Wars was brought from the German term kulturkampf, created in the context of the dispute between Bismarck and the Catholic Church in the 19th century. It refers to the opposite perspectives on life, the role and place of religion in daily affairs, societal models, and values. According to Hunter (1991, 1996) […]
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Populism and the case of Chega
The Chega party gained significant success in the last years in Portugal, following the successful strategies of populist parties and movements in Europe, such as Vox in Spain and Salvini in Italy, and in the United States, with Donald Trump. Academic literature has shown that those movements adopt a discursive strategy based on the division […]