Matt Bolton

Why is our world the way it is, right now? SocietyNow presents the best academic expertise examining key events, trends and phenomenon of current times. Readable, accessible and digestible commentary on the most complex and defining topics of the 21st Century. Written by leading experts in their fields and published when the issues are a focal point across the globe, titles in the series offer a thoughtful and concise response to the major political and economic events and social and cultural trends of our time. Titles included in this set: The Trump Phenomenon: How the Politics of Populism Won in 2016;Becoming Digital: Toward a Post-Internet Society;Understanding Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union;Selfies: Why We Love (and Hate) Them;Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online;Corbynism: A Critical Approach;The Smart City in a Digital World;Kardashian Kulture: How Celebrities Changed Life in the 21st Century;Reality Television: The TV Phenomenon that Changed the World;

From the moment Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader, Corbynism has been dismissed, derided or romanticised, but rarely taken seriously as a set of ideas on its own terms. This book critically outlines the shared understanding of capitalism and its alternatives that unites the component parts of the Corbyn movement. It decodes the central tenets of the Corbynist worldview, showing their coherence with contemporary political-economic shifts and conspiratorial understandings of global capitalism as a 'rigged system' common to populist nativism in an age of Trump and Brexit.