This handbook brings national and thematic case studies together to examine a variety of populist politics from local and comparative perspectives in the Asia Pacific. The chapters consider key and cross cutting themes such as populism and nationalism, religion, ethnicity and gender, as well as authoritarianism.
This handbook brings national and thematic case studies together to examine a variety of populist politics from local and comparative perspectives in the Asia Pacific. The chapters consider key and cross cutting themes such as populism and nationalism, religion, ethnicity and gender, as well as authoritarianism. They show how populist politics alters the way governments mediate state-society relations.
The essays in this volume consider:
diverse approaches in populist politics, for example, post-colonial, strategic vs ideational, growth and redistribution, leadership styles, and in what ways they are similar to, or different from, populist discourses in Europe and the USA;
under what social, political, economic and structural conditions populist politics has emerged in the Asia-Pacific region;
national case studies drawn from South and Southeast as well as the Pacific analyzing themes such as media, religion, Islam, gender, medical populism, corruption and cronyism, and inclusive vs exclusive forms of populist politics;
modes and techniques of social and political mobilization that populist politicians employ to influence people and their impact on the way democracy is conceived and practiced in the Asia Pacific.
As a systematic account of populist ideologies, strategies, leaders and trends in the Asia Pacific, this handbook is essential reading for scholars of area studies, especially in the Asia Pacific, politics and international relations, and political and social theory.
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Acknowledgements
PART I: Introduction
1 Populisms shifting meanings and geographical diffusion
PART II: Approaches and key issues
2 Populism, nationalism, and national identity in Asia
3 The strategic approach to populism
4 Between people power and state power: The ambivalence of populism in
international relations
5 Growth, redistribution, and populism in Asia
6 The populist radical right, gendered enemy, and religion: Perspectives from
South Asia since 2014
7 Charismatic leadership, leader democracy, and populism in Asia
PART III: Cross-cutting themes
8 Populism, media, and communication in the Asia Pacific: A case study of
Rodrigo Duterte and Pauline Hanson
9 Religion, secularism and populism in contemporary Asia
10 Islam and populism in the Asia Pacific
11 Medical populism in the Asia Pacific
PART IV: National cases
12 Inclusionary populism and democracy in India
13 From Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to Imran Khan: A comparative analysis of populist
leaders in Pakistan
14 Variants of populism in Bangladesh: Implications of charisma, clientelism,
cronyism, and corruption
15 Gender, populism, and collective identity: A feminist analysis of the
Maoist movement in Nepal
16 Contemporary Sri Lanka: Nationalism meets soft populism
17 Islamic nationalism, populism, and democratization in the Maldives
18 Democracy icon or demagogue? Aung San Suu Kyi and authoritarian populism
in Myanmar (Burma)
19 The Duterte phenomenon as authoritarian populism in the Philippines
20 Gender, media, and populism: The vilification of first lady Ani Yudhoyono
in the Indonesian online news media
21 Weaponizing populism: How Thailands civil society went from anti-populism
to anti-democracy campaigns
22 South Korea: Still the politics of the vortex? A historical analysis of
party solidarities and populism
23 Patriotic songs and populism in Chinese politics
24 Taiwanese populism in the shadow of China
25 Populism in Japan: actors or institutions?
26 From populism to authoritarianism? The contemporary frame of politics in
Australia
27 Man alone: Winston Peters and the populist tendency in New Zealand
politics
28 Are Fijis two military strongmen populists?
Index
D. B. Subedi is Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Howard Brasted is Emeritus Professor of History specializing in Islamic history at the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New England, Australia.
Karin von Strokirch is Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of New England, Australia.
Alan Scott is Professor in the Department of Social and Philosophical Inquiry, University of New England, Australia, and Professor of Sociology (i.R.) at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
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