1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Populism in the Asia Pacific

444 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

444 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

444 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

This handbook brings national and thematic case studies together to examine a variety of populist politics from local and comparative perspectives in the Asia Pacific. The chapters consider key and cross cutting themes such as populism and nationalism, religion, ethnicity and gender, as well as authoritarianism. They show how populist politics alters the way governments mediate state-society... Read more

List of contributors

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Acknowledgements

PART I: Introduction

1 Populism’s shifting meanings and geographical diffusion

Alan Scott , D. B. Subedi , Howard Brasted, and Karin von Strokirch

PART II: Approaches and key issues

2 Populism, nationalism, and national identity in Asia

Howard Brasted and Imran Ahmed

3 The strategic approach to populism

Paul D. Kenny

4 Between people power and state power: The ambivalence of populism in international relations

Angelos Chryssogelos

5 Growth, redistribution, and populism in Asia

Ming-Chang Tsai and Hsin-Hsin Pan

6 The populist radical right, gendered enemy, and religion: Perspectives from South Asia since 2014

Shweta Singh

7 Charismatic leadership, leader democracy, and populism in Asia

D. B. Subedi and Alan Scott

PART III: Cross-cutting themes

8 Populism, media, and communication in the Asia Pacific: A case study of Rodrigo Duterte and Pauline Hanson

Kurt Sengul

9 Religion, secularism and populism in contemporary Asia

D. B. Subedi and Francis K. G. Lim

10 Islam and populism in the Asia Pacific

Ihsan Yilmaz and Syaza Shukri

11 Medical populism in the Asia Pacific

Gideon Lasco and Vincen Gregory Yu

PART IV: National cases

12 ‘Inclusionary’ populism and democracy in India

Paul D. Kenny

13 From Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to Imran Khan: A comparative analysis of populist leaders in Pakistan

Zahid Shahab Ahmed

14 Variants of populism in Bangladesh: Implications of charisma, clientelism, cronyism, and corruption

Habib Zafarullah

15 Gender, populism, and collective identity: A feminist analysis of the Maoist movement in Nepal

Heidi Riley , Hanna Ketola, and Punam Yadav

16 Contemporary Sri Lanka: Nationalism meets ‘soft populism’

D. B. Subedi and Siri Hettige

17 Islamic nationalism, populism, and democratization in the Maldives

Mosmi Bhim

18 Democracy icon or demagogue? Aung San Suu Kyi and authoritarian populism in Myanmar (Burma)

Johanna Garnett

19 The Duterte phenomenon as authoritarian populism in the Philippines

Bonn Juego

20 Gender, media, and populism: The vilification of first lady Ani Yudhoyono in the Indonesian online news media

Jane Ahlstrand

21 Weaponizing populism: How Thailand’s civil society went from anti-populism to anti-democracy campaigns

Janjira Sombatpoonsiri

22 South Korea: Still the ‘politics of the vortex’? A □historical analysis of party solidarities and populism

Kan Kimura

23 Patriotic songs and populism in Chinese politics

Xiang Gao

24 Taiwanese populism in the shadow of China

Guy C. Charlton and Yayut Yi-shiuan Chen

25 Populism in Japan: actors or institutions?

Toru Yoshida

26 From populism to authoritarianism? The contemporary frame of politics in Australia

Tim Battin

27 Man alone: Winston Peters and the populist tendency in New Zealand politics

Luke D. Oldfield and Josh van Veen

28 Are Fiji’s two military strongmen populists?

Thomas A. J. White

Index

Biography

D. B. Subedi is Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Howard Brasted is Emeritus Professor of History specializing in Islamic history at the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New England, Australia.

Karin von Strokirch is Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of New England, Australia.

Alan Scott is Professor in the Department of Social and Philosophical Inquiry, University of New England, Australia, and Professor of Sociology (i.R.) at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.