2017
DOI: 10.1111/amet.12469
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From Brexit to Trump: Anthropology and the rise of nationalist populism

Abstract: Brexit and Donald Trump's election victory are symptoms of a new nationalist populism in western Europe and the United States. This political and ideological movement has arisen in reaction to reconfigurations of power, wealth, and identity that are endemic to global neoliberalism. In the United States, however, the media's dominant “blue‐collar narrative” about Trump's victory simplifies the relationship between neoliberalism and nationalist populism by ignoring the role of the petty bourgeoisie and the wealt… Show more

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“…Some political science scholars have interpreted Trump as the latest incarnation of a long tradition of American populism, a tradition that could have historically risen from the negative consequences of neoliberalism (e.g., Brewer, ; Hallin, ; Kazin, ; Zakaria, ). Indeed, the rising of populism in different areas of the world (e.g., the “Brexit” case, or the current Italian and many Eastern European governments) can be considered a product of neoliberalism (e.g., Gusterson, ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some political science scholars have interpreted Trump as the latest incarnation of a long tradition of American populism, a tradition that could have historically risen from the negative consequences of neoliberalism (e.g., Brewer, ; Hallin, ; Kazin, ; Zakaria, ). Indeed, the rising of populism in different areas of the world (e.g., the “Brexit” case, or the current Italian and many Eastern European governments) can be considered a product of neoliberalism (e.g., Gusterson, ).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…American vegans may experience racial isolation, but most do come from relatively privileged backgrounds, and, most importantly, they are usually well educated. Gusterson [43] identifies education as a key source of political disparity, with those lacking higher education more likely to be alienated in an increasingly service-oriented economy. Education is also linked with greater support for liberal values.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Trump voters were not only, or even primarily, from the working class. As Gusterson argues, the perception that they were derives from the fact that the ‘mainstream media in the United States have put disproportionate weight on a single narrative thread: the role of free trade and factory closings in alienating a postindustrial white working class’ (: 210). Even if, as he accepts, there is some evidence of a white working‐class swing in the Rust Belt states, focusing on this aspect alone he suggests, ‘distorts and oversimplifies, even inverts, the larger story’ (2017: 210).…”
Section: Brexit Trump and The Paucity Of Class Explanationsmentioning
confidence: 99%