Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticity

In this chapter, we analyse the role played by a particular notion of authenticity in the discursive framing of the Dutch farmers’ protests of late 2019 and early 2020 by the protesters and various politicians. It is our contention that the authenticity claimed by and ascribed to the protesting farm...

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description In this chapter, we analyse the role played by a particular notion of authenticity in the discursive framing of the Dutch farmers’ protests of late 2019 and early 2020 by the protesters and various politicians. It is our contention that the authenticity claimed by and ascribed to the protesting farmers drew legitimacy from the intimate association of authenticity with the rural identified and critiqued by Theodor Adorno in his 1973 The Jargon of Authenticity. We show how the ingrained idea of farmers as inherently authentic not only drove the remarkably sympathetic initial public response to the protests, but also facilitated their alignment with populist nationalist politics. In addition, drawing on the work of Sara Ahmed and Michael Kimmel, we argue that this same idea allowed the farmers to appeal to a rural masculinity that marked their anger and violence as justified.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-717762025-08-13T14:10:57Z Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticity Pospěch, Pavel Fuglestad, Eirik Magnus Figueiredo, Elisabete authenticity; Populism; Masculinity; Farmer; Protest; Theodor Adorno thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography In this chapter, we analyse the role played by a particular notion of authenticity in the discursive framing of the Dutch farmers’ protests of late 2019 and early 2020 by the protesters and various politicians. It is our contention that the authenticity claimed by and ascribed to the protesting farmers drew legitimacy from the intimate association of authenticity with the rural identified and critiqued by Theodor Adorno in his 1973 The Jargon of Authenticity. We show how the ingrained idea of farmers as inherently authentic not only drove the remarkably sympathetic initial public response to the protests, but also facilitated their alignment with populist nationalist politics. In addition, drawing on the work of Sara Ahmed and Michael Kimmel, we argue that this same idea allowed the farmers to appeal to a rural masculinity that marked their anger and violence as justified. 2021-08-27T04:01:16Z 2021-08-27T04:01:16Z 2021-08-26T09:56:50Z 2021 book OCN: 1265580459 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50506 9780367550448 9780367550455 9781003091714 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/71776 eng open access Taylor & Francis Routledge fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 Chapter 8 #Proudofthefarmer 9780367550448 9780367550455 9781003091714 Routledge open access
spellingShingle authenticity; Populism; Masculinity; Farmer; Protest; Theodor Adorno
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography
Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticity
title Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticity
title_full Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticity
title_fullStr Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticity
title_full_unstemmed Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticity
title_short Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticity
title_sort politics and policies of rural authenticity
topic authenticity; Populism; Masculinity; Farmer; Protest; Theodor Adorno
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography
topic_facet authenticity; Populism; Masculinity; Farmer; Protest; Theodor Adorno
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography
url OCN: 1265580459