'Far Right and Islamist Populism: How They Disrupt the Hegemonic Order' undertakes the challenging task of bringing dialectical logic together with the empirical study of discursive and ideological antagonisms. Examining the European far right, as represented by Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom in the Netherlands, and Hizb ut-Tahrir as the Islamic interlocutor, the book demonstrates the inner logic by which two opposing political ideologies create a single populist front. In their shared practice of opposing and disrupting the hegemonic order, they draw on each other to encapsulate the contradictory desires and discontents of people in a mutually constituted Muslim Other. These cleavages and dissonances are reconciled in a bipolar identification of the ‘people’ versus the ‘ummah’ to establish a new hegemonic formation.
The book demonstrates the reality and seriousness of this symbiotic relationship for pluralist democracies and harmonious coexistence. It explores how different, alternative formulations of populism drawing on the works of Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, Slavoj Žižek, among others, can function as a counter-movement to the influence of far right and Islamist populist politics.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Figure 1. Geert Wilders, surrounded by security forces, during the 2019 Provincial Election campaign (credit: Guy Cocksedge)
- Figure 2. Statue of Ibn Rushd in Córdoba, Spain (credit: Guy Cocksedge)
- Figure 3. The Great Mosque-Cathedral in former Al-Andalus, Córdoba, Spain (credit: Guy Cocksedge)
- Figure 4. Protesters at a campaign visit of Wilders to the local city market in Dordrecht in 2019 (credit: Guy Cocksedge)
- Introduction: Thinking about the Other
- Chapter 1: Cultural and religious populisms
- Chapter 2: Desire for a Muslim Other
- Chapter 3: Mutual investment in a Muslim Other
- Chapter 4: Manufacturing division
- Chapter 5: Constructive and destructive implications
- Chapter 6: Thinking beyond the ideological subject
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Index
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