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Author:   Moritz Ege ,  Johannes Springer
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9780367692605

ISBN 10:   0367692600
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   16 March 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Chapter 1. The cultural politics of anti-elitism between populism, pop culture and everyday life: an introduction Moritz Ege and Johannes Springer Part I. An anti-elite moment Chapter 2. Anti-elitism, populism and the question of the conjuncture John Clarke Chapter 3. The betrayal of the elites: populism and anti-elitism Paolo Gerbaudo Chapter 4. The transclasse and the common people: autosociobiographies and the anti-elitist imaginary Jens Wietschorke Part II. Politics, economy, inequality Chapter 5. What are we going to do about the rich? Anti-elitism, neo-liberal common sense and the politics of taxation Rebecca Bramall Chapter 6. Criticism of elites and subjective social agency: a look at the workers Stefanie Hürtgen Chapter 7. ""Social rage"" against the oligarchs: justice, Jews and dreams of unity in current Russia Olga Reznikova Part III. Spatial and temporal differentiations Chapter 8. Countryside versus city? Anti-urban populism, Heimat discourse and rurban assemblages in Austria Brigitta Schmidt-Lauber Chapter 9. Invoking urgency: emotional politics and two kinds of anti-elitism Alexandra Schwell Chapter 10. The elite as the political adversary: neo-liberalism and the cultural politics of Hindutva Sanam Roohi Part IV. Anti-elitism and the (new) right Chapter 11. The heroic deed, the wrong word and the utopia of clarity: the discourse of Germany’s New Right on elites and its links to popular culture. Sebastian Dümling Chapter 12. ""Unpolitical in this time/truly one can no longer be so"": The raw anti-elitism of hooligans in Germany Richard Gebhardt Chapter 13. Nazi-Barbies: performing ultra-femininity against the “Feminist Elite” in the Alt-Right movement Diana Weis Part V. Pop culture and its politics Chapter 14. Celebrity and the displacement of class: the folkloristic ordinariness of Melania Trump Breda Luthar Chapter 15. Who says who’s cool, and how much is it worth? The convergence of elite luxury fashion with streetwear styles Sonja Eismann Chapter 16. Against hipsters, left and right: a figure of cultural elitism and social anxiety Moritz Ege and Johannes Springer Chapter 17. The ghost of Europe is shifting shape: how the film Folkbildningsterror intervenes in left debates around class vs. identity politics Atlanta Ina Beyer"

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Moritz Ege is professor of Cultural Studies/Popular Cultures at the University of Zurich. His publications cover a range of topics in urban ethnography, cultures of social inequality, political dynamics of the popular and conjunctural analysis. Johannes Springer teaches cultural studies at the Institute of Music at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, Germany. His areas of interest and publications include pop music history, music video studies, labour in creative industries, production of culture perspectives and theories of space and place, stars and fandom.

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