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oapen-20.500.12657-461692022-04-26T11:14:51Z The New Demagogues Roose, Joshua M. Brexit;citizenship;Donald Trump;demagogues;EU;European Union;ISIS;Islamic State;identity politics;Joshua M. Roose;Joshua Roose;jihad;leadership;liberal democracy;masculinity;moral vacuum;new demagogues;President Trump;politics;populism;presidency;recruitment;religion;rights;social force;sociology;solidarity;terrorism;UK;United Kingdom bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology Focused on the emergence of US President Donald Trump, the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, and the recruitment of Islamic State foreign fighters from Western Muslim communities, this book explores the ways in which the decay and corruption of key social institutions has created a vacuum of intellectual and moral guidance for working people and deprived them of hope and an upward social mobility long considered central to the social contract of Western liberal democracy. Examining the exploitation of this vacuum of leadership and opportunity by new demagogues, the author considers two important yet overlooked dimensions of this new populism: the mobilization of both religion and masculinity. By understanding religion as a dynamic social force that can be mobilized for purposes of social solidarity and by appreciating the sociological arguments that hyper-masculinity is caused by social injury, Roose considers how these key social factors have been particularly important in contributing to the emergence of the new demagogues and their followers. Roose identifies the challenges that this poses for Western liberal democracy and argues that states must look beyond identity politics and exclusively rights-based claims and, instead, consider classical conceptions of citizenship. 2021-01-15T09:57:22Z 2021-01-15T09:57:22Z 2021 book 9780429431197 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/46169 eng Routledge Studies in Political Sociology Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429431197 10.4324/9780429431197 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 8e37a6cf-6718-4767-910e-5c5cf75c6011 9780429431197 Routledge 232 open access
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Focused on the emergence of US President Donald Trump, the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, and the recruitment of Islamic State foreign fighters from Western Muslim communities, this book explores the ways in which the decay and corruption of key social institutions has created a vacuum of intellectual and moral guidance for working people and deprived them of hope and an upward social mobility long considered central to the social contract of Western liberal democracy. Examining the exploitation of this vacuum of leadership and opportunity by new demagogues, the author considers two important yet overlooked dimensions of this new populism: the mobilization of both religion and masculinity. By understanding religion as a dynamic social force that can be mobilized for purposes of social solidarity and by appreciating the sociological arguments that hyper-masculinity is caused by social injury, Roose considers how these key social factors have been particularly important in contributing to the emergence of the new demagogues and their followers. Roose identifies the challenges that this poses for Western liberal democracy and argues that states must look beyond identity politics and exclusively rights-based claims and, instead, consider classical conceptions of citizenship.
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