Political Geographies of Right Wing Populism
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research – Spotlight on
Until recently, populist authoritarian movements have tended to conform to a familiar geographic split, in which their strongest supporters were found in rural areas, and both their discursive political enemies and most virulent political opposition have been located in cities. [However,] the location of populist support and of the heroes and villains singled out by these new right-wing leaders appear to be deviating from this traditional geographic pattern. In countries such as the Philippines, Brazil, and Turkey, right-wing authoritarian movements have been drawing much of their populist support from the very urban elites that once served as their political foils.
Introduction
Liza Weinstein
Spatial Configurations of Right-Wing Populism in Contemporary Germany
Nitzan Shoshan
Waiting for Duterte
Marco Garrido
Brazil’s Political Peripheries and the Authoritarian Style
Benjamin H. Bradlow
Regional Liberals and the Urban Anxieties of Indian Populism
Mona G. Mehta
The Contested City as a Bulwark against Populism: How Resilient is Istanbul?
Berna Turam
Reading Development 