Negotiating counterstrategies against the far right in Cottbus, Germany: shifting relations between the state and civil society

Nettelbladt, Gala

doi:10.1080/21622671.2023.2209126

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“…Indeed, human geographers have made crucial interventions in debates on populism along these lines, with questions about where populism succeeds, now clearly interwoven with the more standard questions of why and how it does so (Agnew & Shin, 2017; Förtner et al., 2021; Lizotte, 2019). In particular, there has been a recent call for greater attention to the local dimension of populism that points to urban areas as targets of the populist right (Chou et al., 2022; Mullis, 2021; Nettelbladt, 2023). However, manifestations of right‐wing populism in urban settings have been less evident and so far mainly approached from the perspective of electoral geographies (Fainstein & Novy, 2023).…”

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The rise of ‘infrastructural populism’: Urban infrastructure and right‐wing politics

Beveridge,

Naumann,

Rudolph

2024

Geography Compass

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Right‐wing populism has become increasingly embedded in contemporary political systems. It poses challenges not only for societies but also for geographical analysis. This review article develops a fresh perspective through examining how right‐wing populists are engaging with urban infrastructure. Examining the literature on populism and urban infrastructure we outline ‘infrastructural populism’, a general heuristic to understand an emerging agenda of right‐wing politics. Four political fields are identified: (i) urban infrastructure as a field of morals to frame the ‘people’ and the ‘elite’, (ii) urban infrastructure as a field of ideological struggle, (iii) urban infrastructure as a field of national statecraft and (iv) urban infrastructure as a field of everyday practices and politics. The review throws new light on right‐wing populism by showing how central infrastructure is becoming to its contemporary articulations, and how the inherently elusive and extensive qualities of populism result in often contradictory political agendas that are both aligned with and articulated against existing politics of urban infrastructure.

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