Gesa Mackenthun is a professor of American studies at Universität Rostock. She initiated the DFG graduate school Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship.
Jörn Dosch is a professor of international politics and development cooperation at Universität Rostock. He did his doctorate at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. From 2000 to 2011 he was lecturer, senior lecturer, and professor of Asian-Pacific Studies at the University of Leeds. He spent guest professorships at Stanford University and Monash University, Malaysia.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 7
Conspiracy Theories as Populist Counter-Narratives 21
Populism, Populist Democracy, and the Shifting of Meanings 47
Legitimizing Colonial Rule in the Twenty-First Century 71
The Origins of Replacement Narratives and the Resemanticization of Feminism in Two Novels of the Far Right 99
Indignants of the World, Unite? 123
Right-Wing Extremism and Ecology 157
Planters of Doom and Playful Gardeners 181
Contested Nationhood in the United States of America 227
Contributors 253