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The Inter-Nationalist

Project description

Exploring the reach of populism

The EU-funded INT-NAT project aims to explore the complex nexus between right wing populism in South Asia and the global networks that have contributed to its success. The project will particularly focus on South Asian populist networks in the United Kingdom and the United States. Two groups will be studied, namely the connections of the Indian and the Pakistani ruling political parties. INT-NAT will use a variety of methods to examine diversity within these groups and explore intergenerational differences between younger members of the groups and members of Indian and Pakistani university student societies. The urgency of this work stems from the rise of populism in different parts of the world, creating the need to explore potential transnational networks.

Objective

The Inter-Nationalist explores the complex nexus between right wing populism in South Asia and the global networks that have contributed to its success, as well as their implications for populism in the Global North. The urgency of this project is evident in the rise of populism in different parts of the world, necessitating an exploration of transnational networks. The uniqueness of this project is its focus on South Asian populist networks in the UK and US. The study focuses on the Indian ruling political party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in relation to its international affiliates the Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP), and the Pakistani ruling political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and its Office of International Chapters-PTI (OIC-PTI), as located in London and New York. The study makes an innovative contribution to major EU policies including ‘crisis management in fragile countries’, ‘combating discrimination’, ‘justice and fundamental rights’, ‘foreign affairs and security’, and ‘gender equality’. The project uses mixed methods with the objective to map horizontal and vertical trajectories of these network thereby creating a multidimensional framework, to examine diversity within these groups in relation to gender, religion, ethnicity, caste, class, sect and sexualities, and to explore intergenerational differences through younger members of these groups and members of Indian and Pakistani university student societies. The study also examines support of such groups for populists in the UK and US. Trained as a qualitative researcher focusing on securitization and education in the UK and Pakistan, the ER will expand her interdisciplinary skills across Sociology, International Relations, Political Science and Human and Political Geography. She will publish three journal articles and a monograph, with the aim of expanding this research through future grants, and securing a tenure-track job.

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Coordinator

UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA
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€ 171 473,28
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DORSODURO 3246
30123 VENEZIA
Italy

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Nord-Est Veneto Venezia
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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