I. B. Tauris & Company Hate in Precarious Times: Mobilizing Anxiety from the Alt-Right to Brexit

Product Description In the age of Brexit and Donald Trump, the alt-Right has gained significant popularity, characterised by a rhetoric of discrimination and hate speech. This book examines why the politics of hate and ideologies of the far-right are on the rise and argues that to counter it we must challenge the sense of social and economic precarity this politics feeds off. Hate in Precarious Times examines five distinct types of precarity, which cover topics such as threats of apocalyptic terrorism; policies of austerity, and low-waged, insecure jobs in the wake of the Financial Crisis; challenges to privilege; and disinformation in a post-truth age. Neal Curtis, in this study, seeks the root of what causes ordinary people to identify with alt-right ideologies and asks what can be done to counter the conditions underpinning this. Review Neal Curtis' Hate in Precarious Times is an essential book to understand world affairs in 2021. It combines intellectual history and political economy with a shrewd assessment of emerging technologies and social media. Curtis is the rare writer who connects academic insights in ways that the global public values.Walter D. Greason, co-editor of Cities Imagined, Monmouth University About the Author Neal Curtis is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is author of On Sovereignty and Superheroes (2016), Idiotism: Capitalism and the Privatization of Life (2013), War and Social Theory: World, Value and Identity (2006) and Against Autonomy: Lyotard, Judgement and Action (2001).