Rural rage: the roots of right-wing populism in the United States

Berlet, Chip; Sunshine, Spencer

doi:10.1080/03066150.2019.1572603

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“…He calls this process “repeasantization” (Van Der Ploeg, 2018). Recent worldwide political and economic events confirm van der Ploeg's statement, as peasants appear to be a crucial social agent in many political and economic processes, such as the struggle for food sovereignty, resistance against construction projects, or the emergence of alt‐right movements (Berlet & Sunshine, 2019; Isenberg, 2017; McMichael, 2008; Wright & Gerad, 2007a), to give some recent examples. Thus, it seems that the concept of “peasant” is still valid and useful; peasants are not “dead” after all.…”

Section: Introduction: Peasant Studies Social History and The “Deatmentioning

confidence: 83%

Filling the gap: Peasant Studies and the archaeology of medieval peasantry in light of the Northern Iberian evidence

Castillo

Tejerizo-García

2020

Journal of Agrarian Change

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A new archaeology of peasantry has emerged in Europe in the last few decades in the context of development‐led rescue excavations. As a result, new lines of inquiry, usually unconnected with other traditions of Peasant Studies, have been proposed. The main aim of this paper is to propose forms of interaction between current sociological and anthropological perspectives (Peasant Studies) and an archaeologically informed social history approach (Peasant Archaeology) in order to enrich the analysis of peasant societies, both in the past and the present. Moreover, challenging traditional approaches in historical and archaeological studies that see peasantry as a passive, subaltern, homogeneous class, avenues for a relational agency of peasantry considering archaeological records from medieval Iberia are considered.

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Section: Introduction: Peasant Studies Social History and The “Deatmentioning

confidence: 83%

Filling the gap: Peasant Studies and the archaeology of medieval peasantry in light of the Northern Iberian evidence

Castillo

Tejerizo-García

2020

Journal of Agrarian Change

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“…For instance, on the one hand, in 2019 the right-wing governments of Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay delivered a statement demanding reforms within the Inter American Human Rights System, specifically in terms of limiting the extent to which the jurisprudence of the Court influences rulings over other cases and to limit the capacity of the International Entities to conduct subsidiary investigations regarding human rights violations 4 . On the other hand, the left-wing populist president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, denounced the "San José Agreement" and by doing so the Inter American Human Rights Court lost competence for addressing and ruling over human rights violations cases in this country 5 . Although some claims made by authoritarian or populist heads of government regarding the role of multilateral human rights institutions could resonate with some of the questions raised by scholars within critical approaches as Marxism [20] or decolonial [21] theory; it is also true that social movements, including…”

Section: Human Rights Rural Politics and Right-wing Authoritarianismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Scholars have drawn on such debate for developing notions that are useful for analyzing each country's political momentum. Such concepts include 'authoritarian corpopulism', for highlighting the interconnections of agribusiness corporations with the state and the elites amid the rise of conservative politicians in Guatemala [4]; 'right-wing populism' for distinguish it as a "regressive, conservative or reactionary type of populism that promotes or defends capitalism in the name of the people; in its current manifestation, it is also xenophobic, nationalist, racist, and/or misogynistic" ( [3], p. 3), or for stressing its particular appeal to the-white and Christian-people to engage against both elites acting from above and parasites from below in the current political scenario in the United States [5]. Therefore, although the notion of authoritarian populism is useful as an overarching concept for raising the attention of the current political momentum and some of its features beyond countries' borders, it also results clear that each 1 See:…”

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

Coronado

2019

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In Colombia, right-wing leadership returned to power after winning the presidential elections in 2018 in a campaign in which they opposed the previous government, primarily because of the negotiations and peacemaking with the FARC-EP (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia—Ejército del Pueblo ‘Armed Revolutionary Forces of Colombia—People’s Army’), Colombia’s largest guerrilla organization. Globally, there is a vibrant academic debate about how to characterize the current rise of right-wing populism or authoritarianism, but more profound insights from each country’s situation and its political economy implications are needed. The victory in Colombia was due to numerous factors, including the support from some rural elites who have historically obstructed the enforcement of redistributive land policies. However, the populist aspirations of the right-wing government have been persistently frustrated not only by social unrest and political mobilization but also because of the enforcement of institutions previously incorporated into the country’s political scenario. Specifically, in terms of agrarian political economy, two sets of human rights-oriented institutional changes are relevant regarding this matter: (a) the Land Restitution Law enacted in 2011 and (b) the Comprehensive Rural Reform contained in the Agrarian Chapter of the Peace Agreement between the national government and the FARC-EP in 2016. The purpose of this paper is to ground the ongoing theoretical and political debate about the rise of different forms of populism and right-wing authoritarianism in the current Colombian political context, and its implications on the countryside. The analytical contribution of this paper is twofold: On the one hand, I propose an alternative for explaining the nature of the current political regime in Colombia as right-wing authoritarianism; on the other hand, I analyze some features of such regimes in terms of its disputes with the enforcement of human rights-oriented institutions, that are in force as the result of political processes triggered by peasants’ mobilization.

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“…In this article, we explore why American populists may be attracted to educational choice. Given that populism appears to be a significant contemporary phenomenon in both left of center (Fukuoda, 2020) and right of center (Berlet & Sunshine, 2019) American political discourse, in determining recent elections (Stewart, 2017), and given the rise of populism around the world (Mudde & Rovira Kaltwasser, 2017), it is worth considering why populists appear to be currently interested in systems or programs that are pluralist in orientation and give families greater choice in K-12 education.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%