Authoritarianism, Discourse and Social Media: Trump as the ‘American Agitator’

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Books and journals, open access & print www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk Welcome to the latest catalogue of the University of Westminster Press, an academic open access publisher since 2015. Our logo, an open laptop and an open book forming a W, was intended as a succinct comment and a visual representation of our mission. For UWP the most signficant development in the last year has been the addition of three new journal titles: the first, Anthropocenes -Human, Inhuman, Posthuman (p.34) an interdisciplinary title of great range tackling some of the big questions of our age including climate change, species extinction and latterly Covid-19. Likewise we are delighted to welcome the Journal of Deliberative Democracy (p.32). As populism surges across the world, the need for democratic legitimacy and real engagement continues to grow. JDD's August 2020 relaunch with UWP highlights key debates in participative democracy and public deliberation and considers how new insights might assist politics grapple with mounting challenges. We also look forward, later in the year to the first issue of Active Travel Studies (p.31). Healthier and more environmentally conscious transport is the focus of the journal's parent research body, the Active Travel Academy at the University of Westminster. Also during this period two of our existing journals Silk Road (p.36) and Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (p.38) are now presented in a new research environment that of ScienceOpen. We welcome ScienceOpen and other new channels assisting readers in discovering our publications. UWP book titles remain available via JSTOR (www.jstor.org) and OAPEN (www.oapen.org), as MARC-21 records for libraries are also now available to download from our home page. Book trade orders and customers can also be set up via an account with Ingrams at www.ingramcontent.com/publishers/lp/introducingipage. This 2020 catalogue features three forthcoming books in the Critical Digital and Social Media Studies series (pp.4-17) -two focusing on the 'Commons' -in Autumn on top of a total of 30 published book titles, 7 CAMRI Policy Briefs (pp.21-23] and the distributed titles in the the History of the 'University of Westminster' series. One undoubted highlight in 2020 will be Can Music Make You Sick? (p. 18) Sadly the answer to this question appears to be 'yes' for musicians, whose mental health is facing unprecedented challenges in the wake of the gig economy, streaming and currently a cessation of the festival season and most live events. Spreadheading a new wave of publications challenging some of the benign assumptions of previous creative industries literature, this title is sure to contribute to an urgent debate in the field. So we hope there's plenty to engage you in the following pages!.

Rights in the Time of Populism: Land and Institutional Change Amid the Reemergence of Right-Wing Authoritarianism in Colombia

“…The extent to which the implementation of the peace agreement would transform the current agrarian structure and inhibit the emergence of new cycles of land grabbing is still unclear. However, different actors expect significant benefits from the implementation of the agreement and the decrease of violence in the countryside, particularly a capitalist expansion in expected because of the peace agreement' enforcement 13 . As mentioned before, one of the consequences of more than fifty years of armed confrontation is that land remained concentrated because of the violence exerted against rural dwellers.…”

“…12 These policies comprehend the construction of rural infrastructure-roads, irrigation districts, housing and, electrification; infrastructure for rural education (schools and high education centers), mechanisms to foster peasant's access to credit and rural banking, technical assistance for production and commercialization, and even the formalization of rural labor, among other initiatives. 13 Multiple economic actors expect that agriculture production will grow in the years following the signature of the peace agreement between the government and FARC-EP. Agricultural grow is expected to take place as the result of the enforcement of the Comprehensive Rural Reform.…”

“…Accordingly, the former occurs when those authorities represent the status quo of a society; meanwhile, the latter takes place when those authorities aim to overthrow the establishment [12]. Other characteristics of right-wing authoritarianism includes an excessive use of force and political repression as a means to deal with democratic challengers and opposition, exacerbation of nationalism, deprivation of civil liberties, and attempts to concentrate and centralize political power [13]. Besides those generic features, there are aspects of such a regime and its interaction with rural politics that will be explored in the analytical part of this paper.…”

Trump’s 2016 Presidential Campaign and Adorno’s Psychological Technique: Content Analyses of Authoritarian Populism

“…This type of self-characterisation under late capitalism may be understood as "the self as a brand. Social media as cultural commodities articulate and produce familiar discourses that resonate with other products of the culture industry […] where language is simple yet pompous and flashy" (Gounari 2018). Rather than asociality or introversion that fits the more idiomatic definition of the term 'lone wolf' employed in reference to perpetrators of mass-scale physical violence (e.g.…”

The History of Adversity and Collective Strength of Individuals of Mexican Ancestry in the United States: A Scoping Literature Review and Emerging Conceptual Framework

“…Recently, the migration influx from México to the United States has QUALIFYING SCHOLARLY PAPER 4 been changing; now more Mexican indigenous people are migrating to the United States for the first time (Mines et al, 2010;Zúñiga et al, 2014). The conservative media often portrays these newcomers, people of indigenous Mexican ancestry (PIMA-US), in a dehumanizing way (Gounari, 2018;Loewenstein, 2018). Some scholars and prominent politicians have labeled these public narratives as hate speech, and have argued that they incite verbal, physical, and psychological violence against these groups (Goldsmith, 2000;Warnock, 2019).…”