Full Description
This book discusses five cases of hatred politics on the margins of global capital: Turkey under Erdogan (assumed office in 2003), Hungary under Orbán (assumed office in 2010), India under Modi (assumed office in 2014); the Philippines under Duterte (assumed office in 2016) and Brazil under Bolsonaro (assumed office in 2019). How did they come to power? What strategies of legitimation do they employ? What resistances do they face? Country case studies lay the foundation for a systematic comparison that illuminates the key dynamics of this novel political form. Analyses of their responses to the Covid-19 pandemic further shed light on their methods in a time of crisis and a chapter that considers the Trump presidency indicates how we can understand these leaderships given their pronounced counterpart in the Global North - and vice-versa. This is not a mere collection of texts commissioned from specialists, but the result of a two-year-long collective endeavor: an international taskforce to respond to a global phenomenon.
Contributors are: Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos, Daniel Feldmann, Ágnes Gagyi, Daniel Geary, Tamás Gerőcs, Sefika Kumral, Cecilia Lero, Devika Misra, Ilhan Can Ozen and Aparna Sundar.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction The Radical Right: Politics of Hate on the Margins of Global Capital
Cecilia Lero
2 Right-Wing Authoritarianism in Turkey
Sefika Kumral
3 Global Crisis and the Realignment of Eastern European Capitalist Class Alliances The Case of Hungarian Illiberalism
Tamás Gerőcs and Ágnes Gagyi
4 Modi's New India Hatred, Dispossession, Desperation
Aparna Sundar
5 Can Democracies Die Democratically? Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines
Cecilia Lero
6 Understanding the Myth Bolsonaro's Brazil
Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos
7 Comparisons
Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos
8 The Pandemic as an Opportunity
Daniel Feldmann, Cecilia Lero, Devika Misra, Ágnes Gagyi, Tamás Gerőcs and Ilhan Can Ozen
9 It Can't Happen Here Trump Viewed from the Margins
Daniel Geary
Index
