The ideologies and practices of various populist movements are centered on issues of gender, especially idealized notions of masculinity. Offering cultural, political, and historical approaches from a range of interdisciplinary and international perspectives, The Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities analyzes articulations and performances that link populism to masculinity. In particular, the collection studies political participation in the form of public debates, media, and popular culture. The authors emphasize that in order to understand what can be defined as populism, we need to look at the culture that it inhabits and the efforts to claim, challenge, and reclaim the popular. Writing from a wide range of international contexts, the contributors to The Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities explore how populist masculinities are articulated and performed, whether there is something problematic about a specifically masculine populism, and whether there is hope for a pluralist, inclusive, even progressive form of masculine populism. Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities' international range of contributors explore how populist masculinities are articulated and performed, whether there is something problematic about a specifically masculine populism, and whether there is hope for a pluralist, inclusive, even progressive form of masculine populism.
Outi Hakola is senior researcher at the Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki. Janne Salminen is doctoral candidate at the Doctoral Programme in Gender, Culture and Society, University of Helsinki. Juho Turpeinen is doctoral candidate in the Doctoral Programme in Political, Societal and Regional Change at the University of Helsinki. Oscar Winberg is doctoral candidate at the History Department of Abo Akademi University.
Table of Contents Introduction Outi Hakola, Janne Salminen, Juho Turpeinen, and Oscar Winberg Part I Masculine Populists Chapter 1: Iberian Swagger vs. Feminist Masculinity: Populist Narratives of Masculinity in Contemporary Spain Nicholas Manganas Chapter 2: Signifying Illiberalism: Gender and Sport in Viktor Orban's Facebook Photos Katinka Linnamaki Chapter 3: Strong Borders and Masculine Orders: The Role of Crisis Frameworks and the US-Mexico Border in the Context of Trump's Populist Masculinity Joshua D. Martin Chapter 4: The Masculinist Restoration Project in the Rhetoric of Anti-Gender Movements: The Case of Turkey Didem Unal Chapter 5: Nature Lovers and Fuzzy Headed Thinkers: Emotion, Outdoors Masculinity, and the Birth of Anti-Environmentalism Nicholas Blower Part II Populist Masculinities Chapter 6: The Primogeniture of the White Man: Land and Trumpian Populism Juho Turpeinen Chapter 7: The Populist Body at Work (and War): Fascism, Conspiracism, and Idealized White Heroism in Falling Down (1993), Forrest Gump (1995), and Fight Club (1999) Christian Jimenez Chapter 8: Hypermasculine Images and the Hindu Identity in Malayalam Cinema Swapna Gopinath Chapter 9: A Prophecy of Bolsonaro: Masculinity and Populism in the Elite Squad Films Tatu-Ilari Laukkanen Chapter 10: Send in the Clowns: Twisted Masculinity, Supergendering and the Aesthetics of Populism in Todd Phillips' JOKER (2019) John Quinn Chapter 11: Crisis of Masculinity in Disney Era Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Janne Salminen
