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82/ The Populist Hype, ‘the People’ and the Far Right (With Aurelien Mondon)
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82/ The Populist Hype, ‘the People’ and the Far Right (With Aurelien Mondon)

This is a conversation with Aurelien Mondon, he’s a senior lecturer in politics, languages and international studies at the University of  Bath and co-author of the 2020 book “Reactionary Democracy: How racism and the populist far right became mainstream” alongside Aaron Winter.

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Topics Discussed

  • How has the far right been mainstreamed? Focus on US, UK and France

  • Liberal racism versus illiberal racism

  • The far right and why calling them ‘populism’ is problematic

  • What is ‘populist hype’ and how can the media be complicit?

  • How the ‘working class’ become racialized into the ‘white working class’

  • The role of elites in ‘reactionary democracy’

  • How our knowledge of the world is constructed

  • How the right has asphyxiated the media landscape

  • On echo chambers

  • The generational divide

  • The question of race and ‘populism’

  • ‘Populism’ and elections

  • The case of France

Books Recommended

  • Hatred of Democracy by Jacques Rancière

  • Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

  • Feminism, Interrupted by Lola Olufemi

Music by Tarabeat.

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