Crypto Critiques
Bitcoin, techno-utopianism and populism: Unveiling Bukele's crypto-populism in El Salvador's adoption of Bitcoin
- Author / institution
- Tobias Boos
- Year
- 2024
- Publication type
- Academic article
- Published in
- Economy and Society
Academic article2024Why it is in the Library
An essential critical counterpoint: it shows how promises of emancipation through Bitcoin can serve authoritarian projects.
About the work
A must-read critical counterpoint. The article analyzes how Nayib Bukele wove Bitcoin's techno-utopian promises into right-wing populist narratives in El Salvador. Recognizing that part of crypto's political culture has been appropriated by libertarianism and the radical right is precisely what makes it necessary for the left to contest this space.
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Bibliographic reference
BOOS, Tobias. Bitcoin, techno-utopianism and populism: unveiling Bukele's crypto-populism in El Salvador's adoption of Bitcoin. Economy and Society, 2024. DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2024.2407227.
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