Women in their own private space can be matriarchs of the house, how they navigate their way through patriarchy but the same time public space is very partriarchal
Authoritarian regimes first thing that is curbed is HUMOUR. Laugh at yourself, laugh at people holding positions of power. Once you lose that it indicates loss of democracy as well.
Nostalgia, political Imperial Nostalgia. come to power with liberal promises, but longer stay in power, they become more inward looking, authoritarian, illusions of a golden era that we have lost, lost it because of foreigners, US/THEM, etc.
Golden Imperial past, re-constructed, re-invented, symbols and rhetoric, posing with Ottoman soldiers, assumption that we were one big great empire, homogenous, but we were not, story of Ottoman empire changes
concubine in harem, slave, Armenian silversmith, Jewish miller, prostitute working in brothel, or shamam. Offical history wants only one history
Head scarf ban created backlash. resentment.
EMOTIONS
21:00 something is happening in the cultural sphere, a culture clash within every society, not between countries. People’s perceptions are determined/shaped by emotions. A fundamental fact is that we humans are emotional creatures, but in poly sci, emotions are not measurable data, quantitative data fails to capture what is happening right now, because what is happening right now can’t be captured in empirical data
Liberal Elite versus Real people
Who are not part of the ‘real people’ immigrants, race, class. Romanticization of the ‘real’ people is dangerous. the VOLK, real people, not corrupted. untainted by western ideology, resentment against intellectuals and educated.
Leaders of populist movement are elites, just as elitist as people they claim to criticize, Marie Le Pen, Nigel Farage, vested interests in business world and political establishment.
Little people, poor people and the ELITES. Duality re-cast for the 21st century.
Pareto: Italian sociologist, swing from liberal elites to republican elites. Liberal elites fail to understand nationalism, republican elites rise in nationalism, jingoism. 100 years later, we have forgotten this.
32:00 Sweden, there is a re-branding right-wing nationalists are calling themselves democrats