This seminar will accompany the inter-university lecture series titled “Rechtpopulismus ... quo vadis? – Expertisen, Fragestellungen und Ansätze aus der empirischen Kulturwissenschaft/Europäischen Ethnologie/Kulturanthropologie”, which will consist of online lectures delivered in German and English on Monday evenings in the spring of 2025. The seminar is designed in a way as to not only help BA students approach and understand those public lectures, but also to get an overall grasp of right-wing populism/authoritarianism and the ways in which anthropology has grappled with the phenomenon and contributed to scientific and public debates around it.
The way we will do this is by reading and discussing articles - written mostly in English by anthropologists and other social scientists - that offer important insights into the themes and questions that both the broader scholarship and the inter-university lecture series address. These include (but are not limited to) the following: In what sense is this newest iteration of the radical Right 'new'? How do right-wing populists instrumentalize 'culture' and nationhood to build social support? What socio-economic and cultural discontents drive the right-wing surge? Why do (some) subaltern and underprivileged citizens lend their support to the populist right? Students will be asked to engage with these texts in class and on Moodle (posting questions). These readings will be complemented by audio and visual in-class teaching materials (short videos, snippets from podcasts, etc.) which will make complex arguments and interventions clearer and more accessible.
One of the obligatory assignments will be to listen to one of the inter-university lectures and write an essay on it. The language of the seminar will be English, but the essay can be written in German. Most of the texts we read will be in English.
Die Veranstaltung wurde 2 mal im Vorlesungsverzeichnis SoSe 2025 gefunden:
