Aufhebunga Bunga talks to Paolo Gerbaudo about his new book, The Great Recoil, in which Paolo argues we are now turning inwards – globalisation is no longer a sea of opportunity and instead fear dominates. How convincing is his notion of an emerging ‘protective state’, and do either the left or right variants of it really promise us much at all?
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