Nyamnjoh: Incompleteness: Donald Trump, Populism a
This is a study of how Donald J. Trump, his populist credentials notwithstanding, borrows without acknowledgment and stubbornly refuses to come to terms with his indebtedness. Taken together with mobility and conviviality, the principle of incompleteness enables us to distinguish between inclusionary and exclusionary forms of populism, and when it is fuelled by ambitions of superiority and zero-sum games of conquest. Nyamnjoh challenges the reader to reflect on how stifling frameworks of citizenship and belonging predicated upon hierarchies of humanity and mobility, and driven by a burning but elusive quest for completeness, can be constructively transcended by humility and conviviality inspired by taking incompleteness seriously. Nyamnjoh argues that the logic and practice of incompleteness is a healthy antidote to name-calling and scapegoating others as undesirable outsiders, depending on the brand of populism at play. Recognising incompleteness also helps to question sterile and problematic binaries such as those between elites and the impoverished masses among whom populists go to fish for political visibility, prominence and success.
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Nyamnjoh: Incompleteness: Donald Trump, Populism a
This is a study of how Donald J. Trump, his populist credentials notwithstanding, borrows without acknowledgment and stubbornly refuses to come to terms with his indebtedness. Taken together with mobility and conviviality, the principle of incompleteness enables us to distinguish between inclusionary and exclusionary forms of populism, and when it is fuelled by ambitions of superiority and zero-sum games of conquest. Nyamnjoh challenges the reader to reflect on how stifling frameworks of citizenship and belonging predicated upon hierarchies of humanity and mobility, and driven by a burning but elusive quest for completeness, can be constructively transcended by humility and conviviality inspired by taking incompleteness seriously. Nyamnjoh argues that the logic and practice of incompleteness is a healthy antidote to name-calling and scapegoating others as undesirable outsiders, depending on the brand of populism at play. Recognising incompleteness also helps to question sterile and problematic binaries such as those between elites and the impoverished masses among whom populists go to fish for political visibility, prominence and success.
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Nyamnjoh: Incompleteness: Donald Trump, Populism a

Nyamnjoh: Incompleteness: Donald Trump, Populism a

by Langaa RPCIG
Nyamnjoh: Incompleteness: Donald Trump, Populism a

Nyamnjoh: Incompleteness: Donald Trump, Populism a

by Langaa RPCIG

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Overview

This is a study of how Donald J. Trump, his populist credentials notwithstanding, borrows without acknowledgment and stubbornly refuses to come to terms with his indebtedness. Taken together with mobility and conviviality, the principle of incompleteness enables us to distinguish between inclusionary and exclusionary forms of populism, and when it is fuelled by ambitions of superiority and zero-sum games of conquest. Nyamnjoh challenges the reader to reflect on how stifling frameworks of citizenship and belonging predicated upon hierarchies of humanity and mobility, and driven by a burning but elusive quest for completeness, can be constructively transcended by humility and conviviality inspired by taking incompleteness seriously. Nyamnjoh argues that the logic and practice of incompleteness is a healthy antidote to name-calling and scapegoating others as undesirable outsiders, depending on the brand of populism at play. Recognising incompleteness also helps to question sterile and problematic binaries such as those between elites and the impoverished masses among whom populists go to fish for political visibility, prominence and success.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789956552405
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Publication date: 01/10/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 416
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Francis B. Nyamnjoh is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa

Table of Contents

Foreword 1: Populism: Myths, Metaphors and Metamorphosis

Foreword 2: The Road from Lakabum to Bellagio and Beyond

Introduction: The Prism of Incompleteness

Part I: The Global Rise and Effervescence of Populism

Part II: Trump, the USA and the Populism Bandwagon

Part III: The Role of Media and Digital Technologies in the Upsurge of Populism

Concluding Thoughts

Afterword: You Have been Warned - Ideas Have Consequences

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