By: Kees Terlouw

Kees Terlouw — Mon, 22 May 2023 06:20:13 +0000

The local is indeed an important and much overlooked arena from which the rise of populism and more general the growing polarisation in politics must be studied. As a political geographer I argue that is not just the local arena which needs to be analysed more thoroughly, but that this political process also involves a different valuation of spaces. The anti-urban character of populism is part of a wider form of vertical villagism https://www.regionalstudies.org/news/from-the-triumph-of-the-city-to-the-revenge-of-the-villages/

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By: Kees Terlouw