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Populism: a Very Short Introduction
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| Added by: decabristka | Karma: 68075.20 | Non-Fiction | 29 July 2017 |
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 Populism is a central concept in the current media debates about politics and elections. However, like most political buzzwords, the term often floats from one meaning to another, and both social scientists and journalists use it to denote diverse phenomena. What is populism really? Who are the populist leaders? And what is the relationship between populism and democracy? This book answers these questions in a simple and persuasive way, offering a swift guide to populism in theory and practice. |
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| Tags: Introduction, Short, Populism, populism, between, democracy, answers |
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 This book provides a novel understanding of current thought and enquiry in the study of popular culture and communications media. The populist sentiments and impulses underlying cultural studies and its postmodernist variants are explored and criticized sympathetically. An exclusively consumptionist trend of analysis is identified and shown to be an unsatisfactory means of accounting for the complex material conditions and mediations that shape ordinary people's pleasures and opportunities for personal and political expression.
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| Tags: cultural, populism, means, accounting, complex, material, unsatisfactory, means |
