ISBN-13: 9780714649405 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 396 str.
ISBN-13: 9780714649405 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 396 str.
Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past century in ideology shared by populism, post-modernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural identity of otherness/difference lies the concept of and innate peasant-ness. In a variety of contextual-specific discursive forms, the old populism of the 1890s and the nationalism and fascism in Europe, America and Asia during the 1920s and 1930s were all informed by the agrarian myth. The post-modern new populism and the new right, both of which emerged after the 1960s and consolidated during the 1990s, are also structured discursively by the agrarian myth, and with it the ideological reaffirmation of peasant essentialism.