On the country of the future.
Italy has stagnated for 30 years, becoming a neoliberal gerontocracy with crumbling infrastructure (sound familiar?). Worse, it's a country without a Left. How did the populist right come to triumph? What is the relationship between high emigration and hostility to immigration? And how were the seeds sown 30 years ago with the collapse of the First Republic, Europeanisation, and Berlusconi's rise? Is there now a possibility of 'Italexit'?
Readings:
First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy, David Broder, Verso
/53/ Brexit's Hotel California
/52/ Duterte's Despotism ft. Nicole Curato
/51/ Oh, Brazil: What Now?
/50/ On The Market ft. Anna Khachiyan
/49/ Kids & Confessions ft. Amber A'Lee Frost
/48/ Ultra-Politics in Brazil ft. Sabrina Fernandes
/47/ Woke Consumerism
/46/ Exiting Capitalist Realism
/45/ Liberalism: A Counter-Podcast
/44/ Neoliberal Order Breakdown Syndrome (N.O.B.S.)
/43/ City Struggles ft. Ben Bradlow / David Adler
/42/ Erdogan Ever-Present? ft. Yasemin Yilmaz
/41/ The Colombian Exception ft. Pablo Medina Uribe
/40/ Centrists Are the Bad Guys ft. David Adler
/39/ Geopolitics of the World Cup ft. Karl Sharro & Euan Marshall
/38/ The Economics of Exit ft. Thomas Fazi
/37/ The Ghosts of May '68 ft. Catherine Liu
/36/ Portugal: The Soft Whip? ft. Catarina Príncipe
/35/ (Dis)Arm the People? ft. Reid Kane
/34/ War Propaganda ft. Tara McCormack
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