Cultural Politics of Anti-Elitism

Moritz Ege is professor of Cultural Studies/Popular Cultures at the University of Zurich. His publications cover a range of topics in urban ethnography, cultures of social inequality, political dynamics of the popular and conjunctural analysis.Johannes Springer teaches cultural studies at the Institute of Music at the University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück, Germany. His areas of interest and publications include pop music history, music video studies, labour in creative industries, production of culture perspectives and theories of space and place, stars and fandom.

• Chapter 1. The cultural politics of anti-elitism between populism, pop culture and everyday life: an introductionMoritz Ege and Johannes SpringerPart I. An anti-elite moment Chapter 2. Anti-elitism, populism and the question of the conjuncture John ClarkeChapter 3. The betrayal of the elites: populism and anti-elitismPaolo GerbaudoChapter 4. The transclasse and the common people: autosociobiographies and the anti-elitist imaginaryJens WietschorkePart II. Politics, economy, inequality Chapter 5. What are we going to do about the rich? Anti-elitism, neo-liberal common sense and the politics of taxationRebecca Bramall Chapter 6. Criticism of elites and subjective social agency: a look at the workersStefanie HürtgenChapter 7. "Social rage" against the oligarchs: justice, Jews and dreams of unity in current Russia Olga ReznikovaPart III. Spatial and temporal differentiationsChapter 8. Countryside versus city? Anti-urban populism, Heimat discourse and rurban assemblages in AustriaBrigitta Schmidt-LauberChapter 9. Invoking urgency: emotional politics and two kinds of anti-elitism Alexandra SchwellChapter 10. The elite as the political adversary: neo-liberalism and the cultural politics of HindutvaSanam RoohiPart IV. Anti-elitism and the (new) rightChapter 11. The heroic deed, the wrong word and the utopia of clarity: the discourse of Germany’s New Right on elites and its links to popular culture.Sebastian DümlingChapter 12. "Unpolitical in this time/truly one can no longer be so": The raw anti-elitism of hooligans in GermanyRichard GebhardtChapter 13. Nazi-Barbies: performing ultra-femininity against the “Feminist Elite” in the Alt-Right movementDiana WeisPart V. Pop culture and its politicsChapter 14. Celebrity and the displacement of class: the folkloristic ordinariness of Melania TrumpBreda LutharChapter 15. Who says who’s cool, and how much is it worth? The convergence of elite luxury fashion with streetwear stylesSonja EismannChapter 16. Against hipsters, left and right: a figure of cultural elitism and social anxietyMoritz Ege and Johannes SpringerChapter 17. The ghost of Europe is shifting shape: how the film Folkbildningsterror intervenes in left debates around class vs. identity politics Atlanta Ina Beyer