Sacrifice Zones in Rural and Non-Metro USA: Fertile Soil for Authoritarian Populism
By Marc Edelman, Open Democracy
Sacrifice zones – abandoned, economically shattered places – are spreading in historically white rural areas and small towns across the United States. Rural decline fosters regressive authoritarian politics.
Confronting Authoritarian Populism: The Rural Dimension
By Ian Scoones, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Lyda Fernanda Forero, Marc Edelman, Wendy Wolford, Ben White, Open Democracy
Authoritarian populism is on the rise. Whether in Brazil, Hungary, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, France, the US and many other countries. Regressive, nationalist, sometimes with religious inflections, it is a diverse, global phenomenon.