The Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities - Paperback

by Nicholas Blower (Contribution by), Swapna Gopinath (Contribution by), Outi Hakola (Contribution by)

The ideologies and practices of various populist movements are centered on issues of gender, especially idealized notions of masculinity. Offering cultural, political, and historical approaches from a range of interdisciplinary and international perspectives, The Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities analyzes articulations and performances that link populism to masculinity. In particular, the collection studies political participation in the form of public debates, media, and popular culture. The authors emphasize that in order to understand what can be defined as populism, we need to look at the culture that it inhabits and the efforts to claim, challenge, and reclaim the popular. Writing from a wide range of international contexts, the contributors to The Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities explore how populist masculinities are articulated and performed, whether there is something problematic about a specifically masculine populism, and whether there is hope for a pluralist, inclusive, even progressive form of masculine populism.
Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities' international range of contributors explore how populist masculinities are articulated and performed, whether there is something problematic about a specifically masculine populism, and whether there is hope for a pluralist, inclusive, even progressive form of masculine populism.

Author Biography

Outi Hakola is senior researcher at the Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki.
Janne Salminen is doctoral candidate at the Doctoral Programme in Gender, Culture and Society, University of Helsinki.
Juho Turpeinen is doctoral candidate in the Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal and Regional Change at the University of Helsinki.
Oscar Winberg is doctoral candidate at the History Department of Åbo Akademi University.