1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Populism in the Asia Pacific
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 relations.
The essays in this volume consider:
- diverse approaches in populist politics, for example, post-colonial, strategic vs ideational, growth and redistribution, leadership styles, and in what ways they are similar to, or different from, populist discourses in Europe and the United States
- under what social, political, economic and structural conditions populist politics has emerged in the Asia-Pacific region
- national case studies drawn from South, East and Southeast Asia as well as the Pacific analyzing themes such as media, religion, gender, medical populism, corruption and cronyism, and inclusive vs exclusive forms of populist politics
- modes and techniques of social and political mobilization that populist politicians employ to influence people and their impact on the way democracy is conceived and practiced in the Asia Pacific
As a systematic account of populist ideologies, strategies, leaders and trends in the Asia Pacific, this handbook is essential reading for scholars of area studies, especially in the Asia Pacific, politics and international relations, and political and social theory.
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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.
