Mike Grimshaw (Sociology) has edited a special collection for Continental Thought & Theory on The Problem of Trump.
This collection brings together thinkers from NZ (UC’s Peter Field, Cindy Zeiher & Mike Grimshaw), America and Brazil to consider the problem of Trump & Trumpism.
It situates Trump as not only an American problem but also a global problem: the signal of a shift in politics and society that, this collection demands, must be resisted not only by bodies but perhaps, most importantly, by minds.
To resist Trump and we must be able to re-think, to critique, to deconstruct Trump: to provide iconoclastic thought against Trump the man, the movement, the problem.
Therefore, in this collection, Trump and Trumpism are critically discussed and engaged with, and opposed, from a variety of perspectives that ask a series of explicit and implicit questions as to why the problem of Trump has arisen – and to what larger and deeper issues may it point to?
