Angry White Males as Suffering Subjects
(2016)- Abstract
- How should anthropologists understand the Trump phenomenon? Instead of seeing his supporters as fearful or sick or manipulated, this articles proposes applying concepts of ontology, morality, outsiderism and performance to understand Trump's support. We need to reinsert the study of emotions into our understanding of politics. Trump knew this. We didn't.
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- author
- Sampson, Steven LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2016-12-16
- type
- Non-textual form
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Trump, Political Anthropology, Emotions, Suffering Subjects Social Anthropology
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- This is a blog post for Focaal blog, attached to Focaal, the journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. A longer version will appear in 2017
- id
- 7b26d001-b24e-47be-8ee2-d4d6e7eef94a
- alternative location
- http://www.focaalblog.com/2016/12/16/steven-sampson-angry-white-males-as-suffering-subjects/
- date added to LUP
- 2017-02-09 14:10:05
- date last changed
- 2025-04-04 14:43:00
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language = {{eng}},
month = {{12}},
title = {{Angry White Males as Suffering Subjects}},
url = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/21269584/trumpFocaal15decFINAL.docx}},
year = {{2016}},
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