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Author Brabazon, Tara, author.

Title Trump studies : an intellectual guide to why citizens vote against their interests / by Rara Brabazon, Steve Redhead, Runyararo, S. Chivaura
Edition First edition
Published Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (207 pages) : illustration
Series Emerald points
Emerald points.
Contents Introduction: Tough knowledge and difficult knowing in ignorant times -- Shadowing the silent majorities -- The banality of capitalism (and feminism) -- Return of the repressed amidst the Double Refusal -- Tweeting in the interregnum -- Pens and tower blocks -- The banality of racism (and capitalism) -- Intellecturals in the interregnum -- Conclusion: Underthink it
Summary "Why do citizens vote against their own best interest? 'Trump Studies' addresses this key question; probing the value of thinking, reading, writing and interpretation during times of economic, social and political uncertainty. With a compelling voice and academic rigor, the authors explore how and why xenophobia and sexism are the grammar of contemporary popular culture and politics. The Brexit result and the Trump victory cannot be studied in a laboratory; the silent majority will not sit in a petri dish, waiting to be researched. The theories and methodologies developed into this book not only explain these two mega and meta events, they create space for ideas that challenge and dissent, and make the case for the role and value of universities in a time when evidence, expertise and facts often dissolve into opinion, emotion and fake news"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 16, 2019)
Subject Trump, Donald, 1946-
SUBJECT Trump, Donald, 1946- fast
Subject Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016
Voting -- United States -- Psychological aspects
Voting research.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
Voting research
Politics and government
Presidents -- Election
Voting -- Psychological aspects
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Subject Great Britain
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Redhead, Steve, 1952- author.
Chivaura, Runyararo S., author
LC no. 2018418428
ISBN 9781787697799
1787697797
9781787697812
1787697819