Neal Curtis

Hate in Precarious Times (eBook, ePUB)

Mobilizing Anxiety from the Alt-Right to Brexit

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the age of Brexit and Donald Trump, the radical right has gained significant popularity, characterized by a rhetoric of xenophobia, discrimination and "hate speech". This book examines why the politics of hate and ideologies of the far-right are on the rise and argues that to counter it we must challenge the sense of social and economic precarity this politics feeds off.

Hate in Precarious Times examines five distinct types of precarity, covering threats to a particular way of life; fear of apocalyptic terrorism; the insecurity of austerity, and low-waged jobs in the wake of the Financial Crisis; challenges to privilege; and the spread of disinformation in a "post-truth" age. In this book, Neal Curtis seeks the root of what causes ordinary people to identify with far-right ideologies and asks what can be done to counter the conditions underpinning this.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755603077
• Artikelnr.: 60757364

Autorenporträt

Neal Curtis is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is author of On Sovereignty and Superheroes (2016), Idiotism: Capitalism and the Privatization of Life (2013), War and Social Theory: World, Value and Identity (2006) and Against Autonomy: Lyotard, Judgement and Action (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 Hate 1The politics of hate 2 Defining
hate 3 Slow hate and free speech Part 2 Precarity 4 World or ontological
precarity 5 Terror or existential precarity 6 Crash or economic precarity 7
Privilege or social precarity 8 Truth or epistemological precarity Coda
Notes References Index