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Título: The Best Political Sci-Fi Books
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Science fiction has a rich tradition of examining not only space-age technology but political ideology. Arkady Martine , author of the Hugo-award winning A Memory Called Empire, introduces us to political science fiction books that explore systems of government, power hierarchies, and the geopolitics of other planets.

For readers with an interest in politics, what does science fiction have to offer?

I’m going to talk about Anglophone science fiction here, because that is all I am strictly qualified to opine about!

I want to talk briefly about how science fiction became science fiction. Science fiction is sometimes called the literature of ideas. Originally, most of those ideas were strictly technological and Western. What if there were robots? What if there was teleportation? What if we could go faster than light? What if we had cryogenics? And so on… If you look at what is called the ‘golden age’ of sci fi, and much of the ‘silver age’, you have a real focus on an interesting technological gimmick or change that has occurred in the world, which the story then explores; and it can explore it in many different ways.

Then there’s a turn in the 1970s, which is threaded through current writing, and which I really respond to both as a reader and a writer. It’s the same notion of a ‘literature of ideas’ where you’re playing around with the technology, but thinking about a much wider version of technology – more like techne in the Greek sense: a craft or an art. And one of the biggest technes is politics: political life, how you arrange governments, what the government is supposed to do – government itself is a kind of technology. So when I think about political science fiction, I always think, what kinds of political technologies are there? What happens if you change them a bit? What kinds of stories can you tell about the world, or about politics, or about a whole emotional or sociological or technological situation? Not every science fiction book does this. But there’s a huge vein of it, that’s very deep. Read 1 Foreigner by C. J. Cherryh Read

You first choice has very alien political techne. Could you introduce us to Foreigner by C. J. Cherryh?

C. J. Cherryh is probably the author who has the most direct influence on me in the science fiction universe. There are other authors from other genres that have had a similar influence. But C. J. Cherryh is how I learned to write politics. Her work is enormously interested in both the structures of political systems – sometimes those are also military systems, or corporate systems – and the internal effects of those systems on character, on people. Those people are sometimes aliens, and sometimes humans.

Foreigner is the first book of a long series. I do suggest that if you want to read them, you read them in order; but this first one is totally standalone, you can just read that one by itself. It’s the story of a man named Bren Cameron. He is an ambassador from a stranded colony of humans to an alien civilization, the atevi, who live on the world that the humans have landed on. It’s really about Bren trying to figure out how atevi society works, where it matches up to human society – and where it really doesn’t.

He does this through a political lens because he’s working in a political situation: he’s an ambassador, and he’s dealing with heads of state in various ways. What he’s really doing is thinking about sociology, which to me is a political tool. Doing comparative sociology on the fly, live, is in many ways how all people involved in politics have to work – whatever system they’re working in, politics is made out of people. Frustratingly! I work professionally in politics myself, and this has become even clearer to me!

Foreigner is really about alienness, and mapping human techne of politics on to a completely different system, which has different emotional, economic and social triggers. Where that can go wrong, and where that can go right.

I’m interested in the idea that the political system impacts character. Is Cherryh starting from the idea that character is malleable?

Politics is a thing that can happen to a person. A person can also happen to politics, if it’s the right person. But as a writer, and also as a reader, I am very often looking for books that deal with the psychological impact of trying to work through a political event or system or goal, because it’s much larger than I think people sometimes imagine. It can be as impactful and as stressful as more kinetic forms of conflict.

It must be useful to have a well-informed outsider like an ambassador as your protagonist.

Yes. It helps a great deal, makes it easier – it’s a way of talking to the reader really, and bringing them with you.

Your own hero in A Memory Called Empire is an ambassador, and is caught up quickly in political machinations. Plot and political system are so tightly interwoven I’m curious as to which developed first.

I don’t separate things very much. I’m not very good at it! I trained as a historian originally, which means it’s very difficult for me not to consider everything to be interrelated. And I always feel slightly guilty admitting this, but I did not outline, and I didn’t really do a ton of planning, at least for the first half. I just wrote it.

Eventually it became an unwieldy object, and I had to sit down and figure out what I actually wanted to do. But nor am I really one of those discovery draft writers who writes a million words they don’t use… There’s just something very generative about trying to pile up interesting things as you go, without locking it down. It creates a simulation of the complexity of the real world. I doubt I could design something, just sitting down with me and a piece of paper, that would have the kind of fractal consequences that you can have by allowing a certain amount of… not random action, but undesignated action – undesignated as to what it’s for – into a plot.

Of course, the active experience of doing this feels like just throwing things at the wall. Eventually, it becomes a shape. I’ve described it as adding things to a supersaturated solution: eventually it will get crystals. And then you know what it is!

I went back into the first half of the book and added a great deal of scaffolding to get to what I eventually wanted. But the shape of what I eventually wanted was created by the confluence of everything that I had found interesting or desirable to write about. ‘Fun’ is the wrong word; ‘desirable’ is a question of what fascinations emerge from the process, what made it feel real.

Could you tell us what the book is about?

A Memory Called Empire is the first half of a two-book series, the Teixcalaan series. They are about an ambassador from a small space station, called Lsel Station, to the vast interstellar empire of Teixcalaan. We follow what happens to her when she first has to investigate the murder of her predecessor in her job, and then attempt to stop a genocidal war – or not!

They’re about assimilation. They’re about imperialism. They’re about languages. And they’re what I did instead of writing the book that was supposed to be the book of my postdoc, about Byzantine and Armenian history of the 11th century. Read 2 Last First Snow by Max Gladstone Read

Let’s talk about your second political science fiction recommendation. Aliens are classic sci fi, but here we’re dealing with gods… Could you introduce Max Gladstone’s Last First Snow?

Last First Snow is the fourth book in Max Gladstone’s Craft sequence, but each of the books are standalone. This one is the earliest in the story, chronologically, and it is basically a book about zoning, generational trauma, and protest movements – which could describe a book that isn’t science fiction or fantasy at all. In fact, I read a non-sci-fi version of that book, and it’s awfully good when it’s written in the real world too. But Max does my favourite trick in speculative fiction, which is to take a very nasty real-world problem – which here is gentrification, and the destruction of a culture by an industrialised, corporatised culture, and police brutality – and get up really close to it, but make a
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Título: 7 Thought-Provoking Books On Populism - What We Reading
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“Democracies may die at the hands not of generals but of elected leaders.”

Populism is one of the most significant political stances in the modern world. Whilst the term ‘populism’ is a fluid label, most sociologists and commentators associate the ideology with the concept of ‘the people’ being juxtaposed with the ‘elite’. Populists typically present the elite as the political, cultural and media establishments that only serve their interests and the interests of other groups such as corporations, migrants, and foreign powers, rather than the people. populism has also become a term used to describe influential figures who present simple and emotive explanations for complex issues, a phenomenon which many countries around the globe find themselves grappling with today. Join us at What We Reading as we run through the best books on populism. From explaining what it is and how it is used to its effects on the world today, these populism books are all informative and thought-provoking!

National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy – Roger Eatwell And Matthew Goodwin

Across the Western world, a growing number of people feel marginalised, alienated and disillusioned by mainstream politics. As a result, they have become increasingly resentful and hostile towards minorities, immigrants and neo-liberal economics. From Hungary to the United States, these voters are forming the bedrock for populist movements that are threatening to change the face of Western liberal democracy.

Written by two of the most renowned experts on fascism and national populism, National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy is one of the best guides to understanding how our political landscape has been transformed by these movements. Unlike other books about populism, authors Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin make a compelling case for respectful engagement with supporters of national populism, correctly pointing out that it’s a political wave that isn’t going to be stemming anytime soon.

Let us know the best books on populism you’ve read!

How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future – Steven Levitsky And Daniel Ziblatt

The rise of Donald Trump led to millions of Americans suddenly questioning the nature of and potential risks to their democracy for the first time. In How Democracies Die, Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt reflect on twenty years’ worth of study and make the case that, in the modern age, democracies no longer go out with a revolutionary boom, but rather a whimper.

From Europe in the 1930s, and the American South during Jim Crow to the likes of Turkey and Venezuela in the present day, How Democracies Die is a combination of insights, research and a wide array of historical and global examples. Levitsky and Ziblatt successfully show the role populism has in eroding democracies and, crucially, how they can be saved.

Check Out The Best Books Like How Democracies Die

What Is Populism? – Jan-Werner Muller

From Trump to Hugo Chavez to Marine Le Pen, populists are on the rise across the world. But, unlike other political ideologies, populism is a much harder concept to define and attach. So, if you’re looking for a book about populism that answers some of the most commonly asked questions about it, Jan-Werner Muller’s What Is Populism? is a must-read!

Should anyone who criticises Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? Does populism bring people closer to the government, or threaten democracy as we know it? How can you tell the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism? A groundbreaking reassessment of what populism means in the modern day, Muller provides an analytical and provocative commentary of what has caused populism’s rise in popularity, how they can be countered by liberals, and what may be on the horizon if they aren’t.

The People, No: A Brief History Of Anti-Populism – Thomas Frank

In The People, No, Thomas Frank attempts to demonstrate how everything we know about populism is wrong. Rather than associating it with the frightening rise of Donald Trump and racist European extremists, the real story of populism is one of enlightenment and liberation.

Taking readers on a journey through the history of populism from the 1890s and the struggle of the Populist Party against Gilded Age plutocrats to the reforms made during the New Deal under Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, Frank’s work is one of the best books on populism for reminding us how much the movement has achieved. Pummelling elitists, revisiting provocative politics and bringing a message that true populism is an ideology of hope, promise and optimism, The People, No is an affirming and impassioned call that populism may be the solution we need, rather than the problem of our times.

Empire Of Resentment: Populism’s Toxic Embrace Of Nationalism – Lawrence Rosenthal

Lawrence Rosenthal is the founder of UC Berkeley’s Center for Right-Wing Studies. In his 2020 book about populism, Empire of Resentment, he attempts to explain how right-wing populism is rooted in resentment towards cultural elites, and how it has embraced an ultra-nationalistic platform.

From how Donald Trump’s election in 2016 was able to win the hearts of Tea Party supporters to Italy’s Northern League reinventing itself as an all-Italy party (swapping out its hatred for southerners to immigrants) to win power, Empire of Resentment is a sweeping sociological, psychological and political book about populism. Rosenthal makes a compelling argument about how we have found ourselves with a de facto Nationalist International, and how the future of democratic politics hinges on the left finding a progressive agenda of their own.

Suicide Of The West: How The Rebirth Of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism And Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy – Jonah Goldberg

Not only one of the best books on populism but also one of the most compelling works for understanding American politics today, bestselling author Jonah Goldberg blends historical insights, social commentary and pop culture in Suicide of the West.

Across the book, Goldberg attempts to explain how democratic virtues have been turned into vices across America. Taking equal aim at both the left and right, he exposes how authoritarianism, tribalism, identity politics, nationalism and cults of personality are slowly eroding democracies not just in the US but the wider world. To prevent the collapse of the West, he argues that we must rekindle our sense of gratitude for what the past has given us, and rediscover the ideals that led to progress in the first place.

Populism – Benjamin Moffitt

Rounding off our list of the best populism books is another key resource for understanding the ins and outs of the ideology, Populism by Benjamin Moffitt. In this snappy and engaging book, leading expert Moffitt cuts through the confusion surrounding the movement and its presence in the contemporary world. He offers an accessible introduction to it in political theory, maps different schools of thought attached to it and explores how it relates to some of the most important concepts at the heart of political discourse today.

From students to scholars, this is one of the most essential books for understanding populism and making sense of how it has wound up being one of the most controversial issues in the modern political landscape.

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Título: The most recommended populism books (picked by 38 experts) - Shepherd
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Populists are dividers. They campaign on the basis of representing the pure mass of people over a reviled elite. For left-wing populists (such as those who have sometimes prevailed in Latin America), the elite are affluent landowners. For right-wing populists (the kind who have emerged in recent decades), the elite are intellectuals, immigrants, and internationalists.

Barry Eichengreen's book provides a historical and economic analysis of populism. Eichengreen traces the rise of populist movements from the 19th century to the present, identifying economic insecurity, inequality, and globalization as key drivers. He discusses how populist leaders exploit economic grievances and mistrust of elites to build broad-based support, often advocating protectionist and anti-immigrant policies.
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Título: The best books on Populism - Five Books
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After a tumultuous year in politics, 'populism' is on everybody's lips. But what is it? Is it good or bad for democracy? How is it that populist movements often have superrich leaders? Political scientist and longtime populism observer Cas Mudde recommends the best books on populism.

I just read your book, Populism: A Very Short Introduction, and I was quite intrigued by your observation that nobody refers to themselves as a populist: it’s usually a term used to denounce political opponents. At the same time, you also argue that it does have positive aspects.

Populism does have some positive connotations here in the United States, but definitely, in Europe, ‘populism’ is exclusively perceived as negative — although that is starting to change a bit. The positive aspect of it is that it voices discontent and often raises questions that need to be addressed. Populism’s answer to those questions are not necessarily the best for liberal democracy, but the questions that populists ask are clearly questions and concerns that are shared by a sizeable portion of the population.

Yes, because another thing you point out in your book is that many of us interpret political reality through the lens of populism: when we say things like, ‘Oh politicians, they’re all corrupt.’ Even people who don’t consider themselves populists use their rhetoric.

The media often use populism in a pretty broad way, as a general anti-establishment sentiment. Anti-establishment sentiments are very broadly shared in the US, in southern Europe, and increasingly in northern Europe too. It’s a lens through which particularly the elites are shady, or only interested in their own interest and only listen—or pretend to listen—to the voters every four years.

Those types of ideas are very broadly shared, and also are very broadly published. The frame that many media use these days about politics is also, partly, a populist frame in which you have these innocent, pure people that are being betrayed by a corrupt elite.

And it’s not true?

Well, it depends on your country. There are certain countries where the political establishment is almost completely corrupt. Romania or Italy, for example, have massive corruption problems. But when you go to Denmark or the Netherlands, which also have strong populist parties, corruption is marginal. Is it true that politicians are representative of the interests of all the people? There clearly is a gap, but there always has been one.

The point is that in most countries, populist parties get only a minority of the vote because they represent only a minority of the people, but those people believe that they are the majority.

You’ve been studying populism for a long time. Do you think that it’s been strengthened by social media? For example, I’ve just finished reading Nick Clegg’s political autobiography that was published in September. He points out that people are very empowered in daily life. If you order from the supermarket, they can deliver the food within 24 hours. By comparison, politics seems very slow and out of touch, and that exacerbates people’s frustrations with politicians. He is of course speaking as a politician who’s felt under pressure from all these grievances coming from all directions, which, as a politician, you can’t really solve even with the best possible intentions.

Yes, but the problem is that most politicians pretend they can solve it, at least during the election campaign. When you promise to do the impossible, you’re going to be punished, and Nick Clegg is a pretty good example of that. He came to power with a certain agenda and then in power just didn’t deliver.

With regard to social media, I don’t think it qualitatively changes politics in a fundamental way — but it has strengthened certain processes that were already underway. Particularly in Europe, until the 1980s, roughly, most of the traditional media were strictly controlled by the established political parties. That was already changing because of the commercialisation of the media. The gatekeeper function of the media for the political establishment was already weakened. Social media has weakened that even further.

If you can get a lot of traction on Twitter, the traditional media are going to write about it. But if the traditional media doesn’t write about it, not that much happens. The power of social media is to set an agenda but it still comes down to the established media to take that agenda to the mass of the people.

Another interesting point you make in your book is that populism doesn’t need a populist leader. Those sentiments are already there. But, for example, in the UK, a lot of the, say, anti-immigrant sentiment is stoked up by newspapers like the Daily Mail. To what extent does populism need someone to be stoking it up and encouraging these views in a systematic way?

As a clarifier, not all populists are xenophobic, and not all xenophobes are populist. Leaders—be they political or media—are important in the sense that they do influence some people who didn’t have an opinion and then get that opinion. But, more importantly, they tend to strengthen existing opinions and prejudices.

So, when you already feel that Muslims are problematic, and then you read in the newspaper all the time about Muslim crimes, it heightens the importance of it. It’s the same if you already feel that the politicians aren’t really listening to you. Then you read in the newspapers every day that politicians are corrupt and that they’re ignoring the voter etc. etc. It will strengthen your view. But generally, the media is a representation of existing views, its consequence as much as its cause. If the media were populist but no one had populist attitudes, no one would read that media.

It wouldn’t touch a nerve.

Yes, and, in the end, the media is about money. If no one reads the newspaper, then there is no purpose to it. Read 1 The People by Margaret Canovan Read

Let’s look at some of these issues in the context of the populism books you’ve chosen. The first one on your list is a fairly short work of political philosophy by Margaret Canovan, The People (2005). She starts with the populus Romanus of Ancient Rome and takes it from there. Tell me what you like about this book and why it’s important.

Populism studies has two doyens. One is Ernesto Laclau, an Argentine philosopher who was important in a specific, critical philosophical tradition. The other is Margaret Canovan who wrote, already in 1981, the classic study called Populism. Margaret Canovan is a foundational scholar of populism.

In this particular book, what she does that is so interesting is that she looks at the importance and the complexity of the concept of ‘the people.’ It is this importance of the people that connects populism and democracy. Both in a democratic discourse and in a populist discourse, the power of the people is central. What she shows is that ‘the people’ is a very complex and fluid concept, but what populists do, by and large, is make that mythical concept very concrete and thereby claim it. That is their strength.

What I also like about the book is that it clearly shows how closely democracy and populism are related. In general, populism is seen as a pathology and pathologies are completely unrelated to whatever they’re a pathology of. This book shows that while democracy and populism are different interpretations of the people, they are both, essentially, about the power of the people.

What is the difference between democracy and populism?

I think there are two key differences. The first is that for populists, the people are homogeneous, whereas in most understandings of democracy, the people are plural: they have different interests, different motivations. The second is that for populism, the people are pure. It’s a moral concept as well, whereas in a democratic context, the people don’t have a particular moral.

It is both the homogeneity and the morality that sets populism apart.

She also discusses why ‘the people’ generally only includes people within your own country. Why should that be the case?

She goes through all kinds of different discourses in history abou
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Título: Best Nationalism Books | List of Top Books About Nationalism - Ranker
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List of best books about nationalism, including jacket cover images when available. All these popular books on nationalism are sorted by popularity, so the highest rated books are at the top of the list. This well-researched nationalism bibliography includes out-of-print titles and generally contains the most popular, famous, or otherwise notable books - fiction or non-fiction - about nationalism. If you're looking for a list of top books on nationalism then you're in the right place.

Unnaturally French and Cultural politics in Greater Romania are included on this list. You should be able to answer the question, "What are the best books about Nationalism?" after checking out this list.

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Which authors have written books about Nationalism? Joan Didion and Simon Heffer both have, as well as many other great authors.
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A stunningly novel account of why populism and fascism are on the rise in the early 21st century.

Today we find in the most technologically advanced societies, wild conspiracy theories and a broad distrust of science and expertise have created deep political divisions that are splitting nations in two. Defensive Nationalism explains this paradox, using history as a guide. B. S. Rabinowitz finds that the turn-of-the 19th century was also a period of exceptional technological innovation that ended with toxic political upheavals. To investigate why, the author combines Karl Polanyi's concept of the "double movement" with Joseph Schumpeter's theory of innovation. Weaving together a fascinating narrative that spans two centuries, the book traces how the rapid transformation of transportation and communications during the Industrial Revolution and the Digital Revolution created economic interdependence and capital flows that induced radical economic, social, and political disruptions. In response, separate national-populist movements, stemming from particular national histories and struggles, arose concurrently to produce an era of " defensive nationalism ." Distinguishing between creative, consolidating, and defensive nationalism, Rabinowitz offers a persuasively fresh way to study socio-political patterns across time and space.
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Mick Herron,

“But rush hour was over, and there was no sign, tonight, of any counter-demonstration by those who were similarly angry but for diametrically opposed reasons, so the usual business carried on at the usual pace; chanting and jeering and outbursts of ragged song. Leaflets, as always, were thrust on anyone passing; these leaflets, as always, now littered the pavements. And all the while the usual targets attracted attention shading into abuse: the too well-dressed, the obviously indigent, the clearly foreign, cyclists, drivers who sounded their horns in derision, drivers who failed to sound their horns in support, women in groups, women in pairs, women on their own, and anyone whose skin tone deviated from the yellow-vested norm, which self-identified as white, though would have passed for pasty grey.”
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