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Cover -- Reviews -- Claiming the People's Past -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: Is There a Distinctly Populist Perspective on History? -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Towards a Theory of Populist Historical Reason -- Defining Populism -- A Variety of Manifestations -- Populism as a Political Logic -- Recurring Features in Populist Historical Reason -- Vagueness and Decontextualization -- A Logic of Equivalence -- Antagonism -- Moral and Affective Overtones -- Rejection of Representational Pluralism -- Functions of Past Precensing for Populism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I Global Varieties of Populist Politics of History -- 1 Don't Mention the Holocaust: The Alternative für Deutschland and Its Engagement with Pasts, Histories, and Memories -- Introduction -- Björn Höcke and Alexander Gauland: the AfD's Most Influential Leaders -- Focusing on 'Positive' Aspects of German History -- A Convenient Role Model -- Longing for a Re-Enchantment of the World -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2 Memory Policies and Uses of the Past during Kirchnerist Governments in Argentina (2003-2015) -- Introduction -- Kirchnerism as Populism -- From the Plaza de Mayo to the Casa Rosada -- Memory as a Boundary-Making Practice -- The Past as an Object for Public Policy -- Final Remarks: Neither Enshrinement nor Appropriation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Mujib's Two Bodies: Memorial Populism in Bangladesh -- Introduction -- Mujibism 1.0 -- Mujibism 2.0 -- History-Making and Memorial Populist Enforcement -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Poland Besieged: Prawo i Sprawiedliwość and Its Politics of History -- Introduction -- The Origins of the Politics of History -- Heroes and Traitors -- Poles, Jews, the Holocaust -- 'Cursed Soldiers': Anti-Communism, Radicalism, and the Rejection of Moderate Politics.

Politics of History and Academic Historiography -- History as a Weapon and a Remedy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Memory, History, and the Politics of the Hindu Right -- Introduction -- Repressive Homogenization -- The Signs of Failure -- The Logic of Intellectual Authoritarianism -- The Individual as Emblem -- The Historical Imagination of the Hindu Right -- Which Nationalism? -- Refiguring the Public -- Populism and the Writing of History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6 Perpetuum Mobile: Neo-Ottoman Nostalgia as an Impossible Machine of Conquest -- Introduction -- Neo-Ottomanism: A Case Study of Nostalgic Populism -- Reopening of the Hagia Sophia -- Legalization of History -- Monopolization: The Claim to a Neglected Past -- A 'How-To' for History: Revivification -- The Awaited Second Conquest: Resurrection -- Spectacle in Populist Nostalgia -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7 Populist Islamism in East Africa: Elaborating Alternative Futures from Idealized Pasts -- Introduction -- Background: The History at Stake and the People Deploying It -- The Difficulty of Defining a Muslim 'People' -- Islamic Populism as a Social Movement -- Narratives of Decline -- Opposing This World to the Next -- The Persistence of the Yearning for Progress, Conventionally Understood -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 8 Historical Consciousness in the Age of Donald Trump: Populism, Evangelicalism, and the Typological Imagination -- Introduction -- 'Great Again' -- History Wars: 1776 versus 1619 -- The Typological Imagination -- Trump Prophecies -- History as Conspiracy -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 9 The Past as Distraction: Engagements with History in the New Brazilian Populism -- Introduction -- Updatism as Part of Contemporary Historicity -- The Rise of Bolsonaro's Populism -- Performing Histories: Being Out-of-Joint -- Final Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography.

10 Populism, Presentism, and the Prospects of Critical Historical Thinking in Russia -- Introduction -- Putin's Depoliticizing Populism -- 'Historical Russia': Its Meaning and Genealogy -- An Alternative Historicity of Perestroika -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 11 Historical Narratives and the Essentialist Hazards of Populism in Spain -- Populist Discourse, Historical Narratives, and the Hazards of Essentialism -- Podemos: Left-Wing Populism without a Historical Narrative about the People -- Vox: Right-Wing Populism Hobbled by a Historical Narrative on the Nation -- The Authority of the Historian over Essentialist Narratives -- Conclusion: Historical Narratives and the Drifting Away of Populism -- Note -- Bibliography -- Part II Key Features of Populist Historical Reason -- 12 Considering Nostalgia: The Affective Practices of Heritage and the Politics of Populism -- Introduction -- Heritage, History, and Political Conservatism -- The Affective Practices and Registers of Engagement of Heritage -- Emotional Repertoires of Populist Uses of the Past -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 13 Historiographic Populist Emotivism -- Introduction -- Populism -- Populism as Wishful Thinking -- Emotive Historiography -- Populism and Historical Amnesia -- Philosophical Facilitation of Populism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 14 'You Feel Me Bro?': The Role of Emotions in the Construction of Collective Identities in Populism, Nativism, and Ethnic Nationalism -- Introduction -- Populism as a 'Thin' Ideology with (Very) 'Thin' Borders -- Nativism as the Explanatory Bridge between Populism and Ethnic Nationalism -- Collective Identities and Collective Emotions in Ethnic Nationalism, Populism, and Nativism -- Collective Emotions, Time, and Narrative in Populism -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography.

15 Does Populism Challenge the Expertise of Academic Historians? -- Introduction -- Academic History -- What Is Populism? -- Populists' Non-Engagement with Historians' Expertise -- On the Twofold Ethics of History: Truth and Difference -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 16 National Memory, Moral Remembrance, and Populism -- Introduction -- National Memory -- Moral Remembrance -- National Memory, Moral Remembrance, and Populism -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index.

Offers a global and systematic overview of populist politics of history in the twenty-first century, addressing the questions of how and why populist parties and movements engage with the past.