From Donald Trump in the U.S. to Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, and Narendra Modi in India, right-wing populist leaders have taken power in many parts of the world. While each country’s populist movement is distinct, they are united by several key features, including the presence of a boastful strongman leader and the scapegoating of vulnerable populations, especially immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ people, and women.   The Perils of Populism shows how a feminist lens can help diagnose the factors behind the global rise of right-wing populism and teach us how to resist the threat it presents to democracy. Featuring interdisciplinary essays about politics in the United States, the Middle East, Europe, and India from a variety of acclaimed theorists and activists, the volume contributes to a rapidly expanding literature on gender and the far right. Together, these chapters offer a truly intersectional analysis of the problem, addressing everything from how populism has thrived in a “post-truth� era to the ways it appeals to working-class voters looking for an alternative to neoliberalism. Yet the authors also find reasons to be hopeful, as they showcase forms of grassroots feminist activism that challenge right-wing populism by advocating for racial and economic justice.

The Future of Difference theorises contemporary regimes of power as engaged primarily in the violent production of difference. In this moment, the logic of 'other and rule' thoroughly permeates the social and the political; our contemporary condition is increasingly premised on endless subtle hierarchical distinctions, which determine whole populations' attitudes, feelings and actions. Hark and Villa make a compelling case for the detoxification of public and political discourse, in favor of an ethical mode of living-with the world, that is, living with plurality and alterity.

Der Band gibt einen exemplarischen UEberblick uber die Geschichte feministischer Theorie in den Sozialwissenschaften. Er verfolgt eine doppelte Zielsetzung: Die vertiefende Einfuhrung in feministisches Denken soll zugleich eine Einubung in eine kritische wissenschaftliche Praxis der Historisierung von Problemen, Objekten und Denkwerkzeugen in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung sein. Feministische Theorie entwickelte sich aus einer Reihe von kritischen Analysen und Haltungen gegenuber geschlechtlich organisierten sozialen Ungleichheiten und Ausschlussen, dominanten Diskursen und Reprasentationen, aber auch in standiger selbstkritischer Reflexion des eigenen Denkens. Es ist dieser an Widerspruchen und Paradoxien geschulte Blick, der feministisches Denken im Kern ausmacht.