Campani Giovanna - Understanding the populist shift: othering in a Europe in crisis

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Names: Lazaridis, Gabriella, editor, author. | Campani, Giovanna, editor, author.
Title: Understanding the populist shift : othering in a Europe in crisis /
edited by Gabriella Lazaridis and Giovanna Campani.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Routledge
research in extremism and democracy | Includes bibliographical references
and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016024143| ISBN 9781138101654 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781315656779 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: PopulismEurope. | Right-wing extremistsEurope. |
RadicalismEurope. | Right and left (Political science)Europe. | Europe
Politics and government1989
Classification: LCC JN40 .U535 2016 | DDC 320.56/62094dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016024143

ISBN: 978-1-138-10165-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-65677-9 (ebk)

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Edma Ajanovi , junior researcher and PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria, currently works on the RAGE project Hate Speech and Populist Othering in Europe and is writing her PhD thesis on the issue of racist discourses and practices. Her research interests are migration, racism, right-wing extremism, intersectionality and transnationalism.

Annie Benveniste is an anthropologist and Professor in the Department of Educational Sciences, as well as in the Master on Gender Studies at the University of Paris 8, France. She has conducted research in the fields of migration, ethnicisation of social relations and ethnicisation of religion and discrimination. She has undertaken research in Soweto (South Africa) on violence against women in the post-apartheid context. She is also involved in several other European projects (SPRINGARAB, GENDERCIT). She was the President of the Association franaise des anthropologues and is a member of the publishing committee for Le Journal des anthropologues . She has coordinated many issues of this review, the most recent of which focused on the concepts of Sex and Gender (2011) and Norms and Ethics (2014). Other recent publications include Racialisation et ethnicisation de la religion in Dictionnaire des faits religieux (2010) and Se Faire Violence. Analyse des coulisses de la recherch (2013), as well as an upcoming publication Women and Religion; Comparison Jews and Muslims in an edited collection.

Giovanna Campani is Full Professor of Intercultural Education, Gender Anthropology and Intercultural Communication. She holds a PhD in Ethnology from the University of Nice (1988) on Family, Village and Regional Networks of Italian Immigrants in France and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Pisa on History, Science and Sociology in Max Webers Thought. Her research has focused on topics such as social movements, social inclusion, comparative education, the sociology of migration and gender issues. Gender (in the intersectionality with class and ethnicity) has become her main field of studies over the last ten years. She has been principal coordinator of the Italian team for numerous EU projects and has coordinated EU projects in the fields of migration and gender. Her most recent books include I populism nell a crisi europea (2014; with Giovanni Stanghellini), Precarious Migrant Work in Europe (2011; with Mojca Pajnik), Genere e globalizzazione (2010), Dalle minoranze agli immigrati: la questione del pluralismo culturale e religioso in Italia (2008) and Migranti nel mondo globale (2007).

Anna Krasteva is the director of CERMES (Centre for Migration Studies) in the Department of Political Sciences at the New Bulgarian University. She is doctor honoris causa of University Lille 3, France. She has authored and edited twenty-nine books and published numerous articles in Bulgaria, USA, France, UK, Belgium, Russia, Switzerland, Germany, FYROM, Slovakia, Greece, Serbia, Turkey, Italy, the Netherlands and Romania. She has worked as a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Nantes, France (JanuaryJune 2010). She has also been a guest professor and lectured at numerous universities. Her main fields of research are migration and ethnic politics and policies, populism, digital democracy, Internet politics and e-citizenship. Her recent publications include From Migration to Mobility: Policies and Roads (forthcoming), Elastic (Post) secularism (2014), Migration en blanc. Medecins dEst en Ouest (2014), Migrants and Refugees . Equitable Education for Displaced Populations (2013), E-citoyennetes (2013) and Migration from and to Southeastern Europe (2010). She is editor-in-chief of the international journal Southeastern Europe (Brill) and a member on the editorial boards of one American ( Nationalism and Ethnic Politics ), one French ( REPCEE ) and one Chinese ( Europeana ) journal. She is a member of a number of international scientific boards for example, the Institute of Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe of the University of Bologna, the Reseau des Maisons des Sciences de lhomme in France (20082012), AISLF (Association international des sociologies de langue francaise) (19962004) and evaluator for the EC, French and Canadian research institutes. She has been awarded the Palmes Academiques of France and is President of Amopa-Bulgarie (the association of the members of the Palmes Academiques). She is also a member of the Board of the Diplomatic Institute and vice-president of international relations in the Bulgarian Political Sciences Association.

Roman Kuhar is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana (Faculty of Arts, Department of Sociology) and researcher at the Peace Institute, Ljubljana. His research topics include GLBT/queer topics, intolerance and equality, media, citizenship and sexuality. He is the author of several books, including Media Construction of Homosexuality (2003), At the Crossroads of Discrimination (2009), The Unbearable Comfort of Privacy (2005; co-authored with A. vab) and Beyond the Pink Curtain: Everyday Life of LGBT People in Eastern Europe (2007; co-edited with J. Takcs) and Doing Families: Gay and Lesbian Family Practices (2011), among others.

Gabriella Lazaridis has recently retired from being Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester in the UK. She has published extensively (more than sixty papers) and has edited/co-edited several books in the fields of ethnicity, migration, racism, citizenship, social inclusionexclusion, gender and othering and pro- and anti-migrant mobilisation. Her latest work has focused on the rise of the far right in Europe and othering and has just completed a nine-country comparative project called RAGE, of which she has been the principal investigator and overall coordinator and which was funded by the EUs Justice and Fundamental Rights Council. Her latest books include International Migration in Europe: From Subjects to Abjects (monograph) and Securitization of Migration in the EU: Debates after 9/11 (co-edited with Khursheed Wadia), both published by Palgrave.