The Palgrave Handbook on Right-Wing Populism and Otherness in Global Perspective argues that a key characteristic of the recent rise in right-wing populist politicians worldwide is the pervasive dynamic of exclusionary conflicts and moral divisions, designated as meta-othering. This is achieved through the use of two distinct forms of otherization: 'upward' othering, which targets the establishment elites and their associates, and 'downward' othering, which involves demeaning and scapegoating certain out-groups or external outsiders. The Handbook takes a multidisciplinary approach and focuses on recent real-world expressions of right-wing populist tactics to justify, strengthen, or instrumentalize alterity narratives and claims. It provides a comprehensive analysis of manifestations of right-wing populism othering from diverse cases and variations around the world with a particular emphasis on including examples from the Global South.
Chapter 1: Meta-othering? Right-wing populism globally capitalizing on
exclusionary antagonisms and moral divides.- Part I: Othering upward the
in-groups of the elites or the establishment and those associated with the
elites.
Chapter 2: The enemies of Brazil: from transnational repertoires to
national elements by the formation of far-right targets.
Chapter 3:
Normalizing Otherness: The Case of Right-Wing Populists in Germany Before and
During the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Chapter 4: Who is the peoples enemy?
Conceptual construction and visual representation of the other in the
populist political communication in Mexico.
Chapter 5: An other me:
proximity and distance between Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro when defining
their opponents on Twitter.
Chapter 6: How does the other half tweet?:
Analyzing the construction of Otherness during the 2023 Brazilian
Presidential Campaign.
Chapter 7: The enemy on the left: the building of the
evil communist in the Brazilian far-right.
Chapter 8: Podcasting and the
language of destruction: far-right discourse for a parallel new Brazil.-
Chapter 9: The Constructions of Otherness through the mainstream media: the
normalization of Jair Bolsonaros far-right discourse by Brazilian
Newspapers.
Chapter 10: Journalistic resistance against Bolsonaros othering
of the press in the age of populism and disinfodemic.
Chapter 11:
Superheroes as a construction of otherness based on street demonstrations by
the Brazilian populist right.
Chapter 12: Populism, enemies and threat
construction, and Otherness: how populists use Othering rhetoric to get
reelected to remain in power. The case of Viktor Orbán 2028 election.- Part
II: Othering downward by scapegoating the outgroups or excluded outsiders.-
Chapter 13: Polands right-wing populist constructions of the Others at the
Polish-Belarussian border.
Chapter 14: They should not have left: the
Italian government's discourse on the Cutro shipwreck: how populists have
shifted the discourse from people who lose their life to responsibilities of
others.
Chapter 15: Communicating Otherness as Political Action: The Case of
Syrian Refugees and the Populist Right in Turkiye.
Chapter 16: Spanish
extremist right-wing populist campaign: Vox and the pandemic as an
opportunity to spread hate speech and Sinophobia.
Chapter 17: Exclusionary
populism in Portugal: Islamophobia and the construction of the otherness in
the Portuguese Far-Right.
Chapter 18: Artists as Others: Resentment, Public
Policies, and the Brazilian Far-Right, Gabriel Cid (State University of Rio
de Janeiro).
Chapter 19: Witches, Hyenas and Dangers. The othering and
demonization of feminists in Spanish PRR party VOX.
Chapter 20: Populism as
a communication phenomenon in Portugal: The dimensions of the Other.
Chapter
21: Israel of God in Brazil: An Imagined Messianic Nation.
Rui Alexandre Novais is a Professor and Researcher at the Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies (CEFH) of the Portuguese Catholic University.
Rogério Christofoletti is a professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq/Brazil).
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