Many Faces of Populism

Mlado Ivanovic, Ph.D. (2016), Michigan State University, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Northern Michigan University. His research interests are situated within the intellectual tradition of the Frankfurt School and Poststructuralism, primarily the works of Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Michel Foucault. His academic focus is currently on moral, political, and environmental challenges tied with the forceful displacement and migration of people. He is one of the directors of the Michigan-based NGO, Refugee Outreach Collective.Dustin J. Byrd, Ph.D. (2017), Michigan State University, is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at The University of Olivet. He is the Founder and Co-Director of the Institute for Critical Social Theory, and the Editor-in-Chief of Ekpyrosis Press. He has published numerous monographs, edited volumes, and articles on Islam, Critical Theory, psychoanalysis, and political philosophy. His most recent book is Syed Hussein Alatas and Critical Social Theory: Decolonizing the Captive Mind (Brill, 2022).Jeremiah Morelock is an instructor of Sociology at Woods College of Advancing Studies, Boston College, and a psychotherapist in private practice. His most recent co-edited volume is Feminism and the Early Frankfurt School (Brill, 2024), and he authored Pandemics, Authoritarian Populism, and Science Fiction: Medicine, Military, and Morality in American Film (Routledge, 2021), and The Society of the Selfie: Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy (UWP, 2021).

• Notes on ContributorsIntroductionMlado Ivanovic, Dustin J. Byrd and Jeremiah Morelock1 “In This Land, You Could Live, and Not Only Die.” Understanding Populism in Hungary through Popular MusicEmília Barna and Ágnes Patakfalvi-Czirják2 The Plague of BannonismRonald Beiner3 The Populist Persona: A Jungian Approach to the Populism of Donald TrumpDustin J. Byrd4 Algorithmic PopulismSamir Gandesha5 “Kultur ist ein Palast der aus Hundescheisse gebaut ist”: Right-Wing Populism, Social Media and the Failure of Eurocentric HumanismMlado Ivanovic6 Who Is Afraid of the People? The Entanglement of Democracy, Populism and StupidityYonathan Listik7 Left-Wing Populism in Power in Argentina and GreeceGrigoris Markou8 A Dialectical Constellation of Authoritarian Populism in the United States and BrazilJeremiah Morelock and Felipe Ziotti Narita9 Authoritarianism in Brazil: Interpretations from Theodor W. AdornoMaria Cristina Dancham Simões and Carlos Antonio Giovinazzo Júnior10 Reimagining Saudi Arabia: Authoritarian Populism, State Power and NationalismHassan ZaheerIndex