Episode notes
Welcome back to Global Takes on Trump, a podcast from Global Studies at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK. This time, regular host Synne Dyvik is joined by PhD researcher Tanja Weis for a conversation with Melanie Richter-Montpetit about some of the key members of Trump’s coalition: Tradwives and Techbros.
In this wide-ranging conversation, our experts discuss how gender is constructed, how it relates to race, empire, power, and crisis, and how Trump and his tech bro and trad wife supporters stoke these anxieties to fuel their reactionary project.
This episode’s guest host is Tanja Weis, a PhD researcher in International Relations at the University of Sussex. Tanja’s doctoral research examines the attacks on LGBTQIA+ rights across Europe by drawing on critiques of family, empire, and liberalism.
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