The Cultural Politics of Anti-Elitism (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Ege, Moritz; Springer, Johannes

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the highly ambivalent implications and effects of anti-elitism. It draws on this theme as a cross cutting entry point to provide transdisciplinary analysis of current conjunctures and their contradictions, drawing on examples from popular culture and media, politics, fashion, labour, and spatial arrangements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000877380
• Artikelnr.: 67512445

Autorenporträt

Moritz Ege is professor of Cultural Studies/Popular Cultures at the University of Zurich. His publications cover a range of topics in urban ethnography, cultures of social inequality, political dynamics of the popular and conjunctural analysis. Johannes Springer teaches cultural studies at the Institute of Music at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, Germany. His areas of interest and publications include pop music history, music video studies, labour in creative industries, production of culture perspectives and theories of space and place, stars and fandom.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. The cultural politics of anti-elitism between populism, pop
culture and everyday life: an introduction
Moritz Ege and Johannes Springer
Part I. An anti-elite moment
Chapter 2. Anti-elitism, populism and the question of the conjuncture
John Clarke
Chapter 3. The betrayal of the elites: populism and anti-elitism
Paolo Gerbaudo
Chapter 4. The transclasse and the common people: autosociobiographies and
the anti-elitist imaginary
Jens Wietschorke
Part II. Politics, economy, inequality
Chapter 5. What are we going to do about the rich? Anti-elitism,
neo-liberal common sense and the politics of taxation
Rebecca Bramall
Chapter 6. Criticism of elites and subjective social agency: a look at the
workers
Stefanie Hürtgen
Chapter 7. "Social rage" against the oligarchs: justice, Jews and dreams of
unity in current Russia
Olga Reznikova
Part III. Spatial and temporal differentiations
Chapter 8. Countryside versus city? Anti-urban populism, Heimat discourse
and rurban assemblages in Austria
Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber
Chapter 9. Invoking urgency: emotional politics and two kinds of
anti-elitism
Alexandra Schwell
Chapter 10. The elite as the political adversary: neo-liberalism and the
cultural politics of Hindutva
Sanam Roohi
Part IV. Anti-elitism and the (new) right
Chapter 11. The heroic deed, the wrong word and the utopia of clarity: the
discourse of Germany's New Right on elites and its links to popular
culture.
Sebastian Dümling
Chapter 12. "Unpolitical in this time/truly one can no longer be so": The
raw anti-elitism of hooligans in Germany
Richard Gebhardt
Chapter 13. Nazi-Barbies: performing ultra-femininity against the "Feminist
Elite" in the Alt-Right movement
Diana Weis
Part V. Pop culture and its politics
Chapter 14. Celebrity and the displacement of class: the folkloristic
ordinariness of Melania Trump
Breda Luthar
Chapter 15. Who says who's cool, and how much is it worth? The convergence
of elite luxury fashion with streetwear styles
Sonja Eismann
Chapter 16. Against hipsters, left and right: a figure of cultural elitism
and social anxiety
Moritz Ege and Johannes Springer
Chapter 17. The ghost of Europe is shifting shape: how the film
Folkbildningsterror intervenes in left debates around class vs. identity
politics
Atlanta Ina Beyer