Solomon Benatar offers an important critique of the limited frame that sets the boundaries of much of what is referred to as 'global health.' In placing his comments within a criticism of increasing poverty (or certainly income and wealth inequalities) and the decline in our environmental commons, he locates our health inequities within the pathology of our present global economy. In that respe...

Through a discourse-theoretic approach, this paper problematises the under-theorised chameleonic quality of populism. While populist politics is often expressed as construction people against elite, argues that political should rather be sought in how populism revives itself despite (and through) constant discursive shifts. It examines interrelations between populism, identity and foreign polic...

The rise of populism in the twenty-first century has been marked by use religion and national identity as emotive mobilizing forces to increase in-group solidarity demarcate notional boundaries communities. process often leads exclusion vulnerable ethnoreligious minorities increased violence against them. This article analyses role fear a principal emotion context conflict with reference Rohing...

South African politics has taken a different turn since the dawn of democratic era in 1994. After 28 years democracy, there been some populists’ and constitutionalists’ tension Africa. The Mandela Mbeki presidencies are marked for constitutionalism, while Zuma tenure nine is as populism. constitutional republic already experiences between populists constitutionalists. This article aims to ident...

This article argues that populism, both in its left-wing and right-wing versions, is a social pathology the sense contemporary critical theorists give to it. As such, it suffers from disconnect between first order political practices reflexive grasp of meaning those practices. due populists’ ideal freedom, which they understand as authentic self-expression ‘the People’, rejecting need for media...

Rise of populist politics in the 21s century calls scholars and politicians alike to reflect upon question how democracy have been understood. Drawing on theory hegemony, this article establishes a distinction between ‘demography’ as key line conceptualization politics. It highlights central misunderstanding at core demonization populism: For radical democratic theory, ‘the people’ is not demog...