Populism and Human Rights in a Turbulent Era

Edited by Alison Brysk, Distinguished Professor, Department of Global Studies and Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, US

• Contents:1 Introduction: populism and the politics of human rights 1Alison Brysk2 Nationalism and conservative populism in the CEE bloc:a political economy and historical institutional approach 12Oldrich Krpec and Carol Wise3 When do opponents of LGBT human rights mobilize inEurope? Explaining political participation in times of populism 44Phillip M. Ayoub and Douglas Page4 Mexico: populism versus feminism 68Kathleen Bruhn5 “Local and national”: the rise of populism and foreignpolicy as a two-dimensional process in Turkey 87Şevin Gülfer Sağnıç6 Democratic backsliding and threats to human rights inDuterte’s Philippines 105Sharmila Parmanand7 Administrative backsliding in India 126Satyajit Singh8 Gendering populism: the rise of right-wing populism andanti-gender politics in Brazil 148Vitória Moreira9 Human rights under American populism 166Gershon ShafirIndex 191

‘This edited volume provides an often terrifying account of how the rise of far-right populism is quickly eroding the international human rights regime that was painstakingly built in the last century. Across regions and regimes, Brysk and the contributors put current human rights abuses in context and provide us with research-informed insights to help protect and preserve human rights in this new environment, where advocacy backlash seems to appear around every corner. A must read for students and scholars of human rights, democratic backsliding, and social movements.’