Frontiers in Sociology (Feb 2021)

Populism and Protest

  • Nancy J. Hirschmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.619235
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5

Abstract

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The essay considers populism in the present moment in relation to Black Lives Matter as a popular protest movement. Popular protest movements demand that government change; populism in the present moment seeks to act extra-governmentally, and to this end relies on violence in the face of peace protest movement. This violence demonstrates the white patriarchalism of contemporary populism. I argue that peaceful, popular protest is an important tool to resist white patriarchal populist authoritarianism.

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