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This chapter examines how years of policy directed toward rural Americans has led to the election of Donald Trump. It explains that there is no simple explanation for why rural populations were attracted to authoritarianism, rather it examines the interconnectedness of economic anxiety, neoliberal education, and corporate ideology in creating a mistrust toward the political establishment and an acceptance of antagonistic identities as a form of resistance to an elitist class which they view as oppressive and dismissive of rural life.
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Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in their Own Land (New York: The New Press, 2016), 222.
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Ibid., 228.
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Amy Chozick, “Hillary Clinton Calls Many Trump Backers ‘Deplorables,’ and G.O.P. Pounces,” The New York Times, September 10, 2016, accessed March 18, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/us/politics/hillary-clinton-basket-of-deplorables.html.
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Slavoj Žižek, Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbors: Against the Double Blackmail, Brooklyn: Melville House, 2016.
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Ibid., 71.
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Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space , Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1991.
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Neil Smith, Uneven Development, 3rd ed., Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008.
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David Harvey, The New Imperialism, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
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Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom, New York: Holt, 1977.
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Cervone, J.A. (2018). Introduction. In: Corporatizing Rural Education. New Frontiers in Education, Culture, and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64462-2_1
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