Why the Poor Support Populism: The Politics of Sincerity in Metro Manila

Garrido, Marco

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“…On another, regular experiences of discrimination have made class identities politically salient. Elsewhere I show that a strong sense of discrimination has made slum residents in Metro Manila more receptive to populist leaders (Garrido, ). Interspersion is happening not just in Manila but elsewhere.…”

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How Interspersion Affects Class Relations

Garrido

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Scholars have identified a new configuration of spatial inequality in several of the largest cities in the developing world. This configuration, which I label interspersion, is characterized by the general proximity of classed spaces, particularly ‘slums’ and ‘enclaves’. There is disagreement about how interspersion affects class relations. One side argues that it worsens class relations by foreclosing substantive class interaction; the other side maintains that it improves class relations by enabling greater class interaction. I argue that it is not the extent but the form of class interaction that matters. Interspersion worsens class relations by promoting categorically unequal interaction. It provides regular opportunities for the imposition of spatial boundaries on slum residents. Regular experiences of boundary imposition deepen their sense of discrimination. This argument is based on an ethnographic study of the relations between slum and enclave residents in Metro Manila.

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How Interspersion Affects Class Relations

Garrido

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Future research within sociology might examine the perception and use of conspiracy theories by political actors (Nefes 2013), or how actors push fringe narratives into the mainstream in support of their agenda (Bail 2012). By examining how people with conspiracist beliefs reconcile them with more conventional aspects of social reality, we can gain valuable insights into the construction and maintenance of political beliefs and intersubjective reality more generally (Hoffman 2016;Garrido 2017). There is more to learn about how institutions understand populist resistance to their agendas and how that affects public policy.…”

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Collisions Between Institutional and Populist Risk Imaginaries: The “Dark Side” of Negative Asymmetric Thinking

Hagen¹

2019

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Expert knowledge informs the construction of public problems from gun violence to disease epidemics to climate change, and institutional actors draw on this knowledge to implement public policy to mitigate or repair the related harms. The expanding role of experts and institutions in managing risks has come at a time of declining public trust in institutions and a legitimacy crisis around expert knowledge. What happens when these tendencies collide? Previous scholarship has examined how disaster arises through failures of foresight, and how cultural-cognitive biases can prevent actors from seeing disasters coming. Less is known about the mobilization of resistance against risk management policies. This theoretical essay examines a particular category of that resistance: conspiracist discourse that frames risk as emanating primarily from perceived secret agendas of institutions and experts that explicitly claim to be acting in the public interest. This essay argues that conspiracy thinking can be best understood as rooted in a “populist risk imaginary,” which is rooted in negative asymmetry, a cultural-cognitive bias that foregrounds the possibility of worst-case outcomes. Conspiracy discourse can be understood as the “dark side” of negative asymmetry, which is otherwise used by service-oriented professionals to sharpen their foresight in preempting future dangers.

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“…Adorno’s emphasis on performance points to the participatory and collaborative nature of populism directing attention to the logics of ‘political recognition’ (Garrido, 2017: 682) that anchor its appeals in lived experience, the pleasures of popular culture, and carnivalesque celebrations of challenges to the established order.…”

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Profits of deceit: Performing populism in polarised times

Murdock

2020

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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The article is an invited contribution to the special issue to mark the anniversary of the publication of Jim McGuigan’s ‘Cultural Populism’. Drawing on work on authoritarian populism produced by the scholars grouped around the Frankfurt Institute of Research during their war-time exile in the Unites States, this article explores the right-wing populist platforms developed by Donald Trump during and after his presidential campaign and by the two Leave campaigns in the British referendum on European Union membership. It argues that understanding their popular appeal requires us to pay particular attention to the performative styles employed and the ways they mobilise motifs from popular media and direct forms of communicative address to connect with lived experiences, articulate anxieties and present policies that benefit the already privileged as true expressions of the popular interest.

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Why the Poor Support Populism: The Politics of Sincerity in Metro Manila

Cited by 35 publications

References 29 publications

How Interspersion Affects Class Relations

How Interspersion Affects Class Relations

Collisions Between Institutional and Populist Risk Imaginaries: The “Dark Side” of Negative Asymmetric Thinking

Profits of deceit: Performing populism in polarised times

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