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The rise of authoritarian, nationalist forms of populism and the implications for rural actors and settings is one of the most crucial foci for critical agrarian studies today, with many consequences for political action. Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World reflects on the rural origins and consequences of the emergence of authoritarian and populist leaders across the world, as well as on the rise of multi-class mobilisation and resistance, alongside wider counter-movements and alternative practices, which together confront authoritarianism and nationalist populism. The book includes 20 chapters written by contributors to the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI), a global network of academics and activists committed to both reflective analysis and political engagement. Debates about 'populism', 'nationalism', 'authoritarianism' and more have exploded recently, but relatively little of this has focused on the rural dimensions. Yet, wherever one looks, the rural aspects are key - not just in electoral calculus, but in understanding underlying drivers of authoritarianism and populism, and potential counter-movements to these. Whether because of land grabs, voracious extractivism, infrastructural neglect or lack of services, rural peoples' disillusionment with the status quo has had deeply troubling consequences and occasionally hopeful ones, as the chapters in this book show. The chapters in this book were originally published in The Journal of Peasant Studies.

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A extrema relevância e atualidade deste livro [...] se torna evidente quando consideramos a advertência de Theodor Adorno sobre a persistência das condições objetivas geradoras do fascismo, mesmo no interior de sociedades democráticas. [...] O leitor não terá dificuldade em reconhecer a extrema atualidade deste livro[...], pois sua reflexão repercute problemas que não fazem parte de um passado histórico superado, mas reverberam na sociedade brasileira atual, sob o impulso da catástrofe ética e social representada pelo bolsonarismo recente. É relevante notar que o início da pesquisa de doutorado que originou a presente obra, data do ano de 2017, época em que o ovo da serpente estava sendo lentamente gestado, trans- parecendo na mentalidade moralmente perniciosa do movimento "Escola sem partido". [...] Um dos grandes méritos da reflexão exposta neste livro consiste em desmistificar a repulsa pública pela esfera da política, que em si mesma integra o conjunto de sintomas da síndrome fascista. Ao contrário da mentalidade de recusa da política, o autor realça a urgência de uma politização autêntica e autônoma da esfera do poder, para que se torne possível um exercício público potencialmente resistente à disseminação da barbárie. [...] Hannah Arendt [...] nos lembra que "política" é a esfera do debate público entre diferentes, movido pela perspectiva de um mundo comum. A verdadeira política se traduz no exercício da liberdade potencialmente voltada para o rompimento do estado de exceção que na realidade atual silencia o debate público e massacra todos aqueles que representam a diferença. [...] O fascista [...] não deseja conservar nada, pois seu desejo, reprimido, ou muitas vezes declarado, se dirige à destruição de tudo aquilo que for possível, desde a vida das pessoas que existem à margem da normalidade social, até as próprias instituições democráticas. [...] Em sintonia com as reflexões de Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, e outros pensadores voltados para a crítica do fascismo, [...] para entender o que é a educação, nesta obra, devemos nos afastar dos aspectos instrumentais muito presentes na escola, buscando compreender esse termo como sinônimo de formação do espírito, em sentido contrário à barbárie. [...] Os leitores que estiverem sintonizados com uma compreensão ampla da educação, voltada para a desbarbarização e pacificação da sociedade, e sobretudo dirigida ao combate a todo tipo de preconceito, saberão encontrar neste livro uma obra de leitura intelectualmente estimulante, esclarecedora e prazerosa.

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We are witnessing a worldwide resurgence of reactionary nationalist, religious, racist, and antifeminist ideologies and movements, as well as a rapid process of global de-democratization. Nevertheless, most studies remain tied to a methodological nationalism, while comparative research is almost exclusively limited to European countries and the USA. But authoritarian transformations in the Global South and the struggles against them have not only been at least as dramatic as in the North, they also often date back longer - and have been studied and theorized by Southern scholars for many years. Twenty scholar-activists from the Global South show in their in-depth studies how national processes of authoritarian capitalism have undermined political systems on a global scale.

Totalitarianism --- Authoritarianism --- History

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How extreme-right antidemocratic governments around the world are prioritizing profits over citizens, stoking catastrophic wildfires, and accelerating global climate change. Recent years have seen out-of-control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian rainforests, densely populated California coastlines, and major cities in Australia. What connects these separate events is more than immediate devastation and human loss of life. In Global Burning, Eve Darian-Smith contends that using fire as a symbolic and literal thread connecting different places around the world allows us to better understand the parallel, and related, trends of the growth of authoritarian politics and climate crises and their interconnected global consequences. Darian-Smith looks deeply into each of these three cases of catastrophic wildfires and finds key similarities in all of them. As political leaders and big business work together in the pursuit of profits and power, anti-environmentalism has become an essential political tool enabling the rise of extreme right governments and energizing their populist supporters. These are the governments that deny climate science, reject environmental protection laws, and foster exclusionary worldviews that exacerbate climate injustice. The fires in Australia, Brazil and the United States demand acknowledgment of the global systems of inequality that undergird them, connecting the political erosion of liberal democracy with the corrosion of the environment. Darian-Smith argues that these wildfires are closely linked through capitalism, colonialism, industrialization, and resource extraction. In thinking through wildfires as environmental and political phenomenon, Global Burning challenges readers to confront the interlocking powers that are ensuring our future ecological collapse.

Authoritarianism. --- Climatic changes --- Wildfires --- Economic aspects. --- Political aspects. --- anti-environmentalism. --- antidemocracy. --- authoritarianism. --- climate change. --- climate science denial. --- environmental racism. --- extractive capitalism. --- neoliberalism. --- wildfires.

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This book analyzes non-democratic legitimacy during the Arab Spring. During this historic event, monarchs and presidents were forced to defend their rule, whether through Islam, the cultural image of paternalism or the cash flow of welfare. Can Arab leaders still justify apolitical reigns? Are monarchies more respected than republicans or are they too under threat? The author traces the history of apolitical rule in the Arab world, from Islamic roots to the role of Arab leaders in merging religion with socio-economic benefits and cosmetic liberalization. Finally, analysis of speeches given by leaders of Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Bahrain in response to the Arab Spring are considered. When protesters took to the streets with their slogans, the regimes talked back. This work discusses the weight of their words and why some leaders survived unrest while others were overthrown. Nicolai Due-Gundersen is a London-based lecturer and political analyst affiliated with the United Nations. He is also a political commentator and has appeared on Al Jazeera and CGTN and is author of The Privatization of Warfare.

Religious studies --- Islam --- Politics --- Social security law --- welvaartsstaat --- politiek --- godsdienst --- Authoritarianism --- Arab countries --- Politics and government.