Troubling Elites: Gender and Paradoxes of Political Ignorance

Title: Troubling Elites: Gender and Paradoxes of Political Ignorance
Creator: Jose, Jim
Relation: Gender Politics: Navigating Political Leadership in Australia p. 154-165
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2021
Description: Populist politicians differentiate themselves from the mainstream by positioning themselves as anti-elite. They claim to be outside the knowledge circles of the (various) governing elites and hence identify as not-knowing, while simultaneously claiming to know what needs to be done and how it should be achieved. This chapter describes this as a paradox of political ignorance, one marked by gendered practices and masculinised forms of knowing that are not accidental to the question of leadership. Aspects of this paradox might sometimes trouble elites, but through making occasional concessions, even those with the potential to transform individual masculinist practices, the systemic roots of these paradoxes survive unscathed.
Description: 1st
Subject: gender; political ignorance; gendered practices; masculinist
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1450342
Identifier: uon:43906
Identifier: ISBN:9781742236933
Language: eng