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. 2021 Feb 17:5:620065.
doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2020.620065. eCollection 2020.

Populism, "Anti" Ideologies, and Feminist Coalitions

Brooke A Ackerly  1
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Populism, "Anti" Ideologies, and Feminist Coalitions

Brooke A Ackerly. Front Sociol. .

Abstract

By understanding populism as an "anti-" politics we can see two strands of populism: the anti-democratic strand which marginalizes certain groups of people and the anti-structural injustice strand coming from marginalized people. The potential of this anti-structural injustice activism encourages activists to expand their coalitional politics and government and philanthropic donors to see the import of funding and otherwise supporting work against structural injustice that explicitly takes on patriarchy and racism, among the full gamut of ideologies based on hierarchy and injustice.

Keywords: activism; anti-racism; coalitions; feminism; philanthropy; social movements.

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The author declares that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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