Thesis Eleven Populism(s) Portal
Welcome to the Thesis Eleven Populism(s) Portal. Over two years have passed since we penned the introductory essay to Populism(s), the first part of a double special issue published in this journal focused on populism in theoretical and comparative perspectives. Back then, we joined efforts to help overcome the claim that populism is an ‘essentially contested concept’ and thus push the debate towards greater conceptual clarity
As we highlighted, populism as an idea has a long academic tradition and has been used (and abused) for years by different scholarly approaches. The concept experienced a dramatic renaissance in connection to the arrival in power of anti-establishment right-wing leaders and parties across the world.
On this page you will find the contents of our two special issues engaging with populism. In time we will include events, essays and more.
Image: Umberto Boccioni (1912) La Strada Entra Nella Casa
Podcast: Populisms, precarity and political fragility with Raul Sanchez-Urribarri
Co-editor of our Populism(s) special issues, Dr Raul Sanchez-Urribarri, joins Dr Ben Habib on the Edge Dwellers Café podcast to discuss populist politics in Venezuela and the United States, and what trends in those countries might portend for politics here…
Issue 164, June 2021: Populism(s) II
How will populism research evolve in the coming years? Whilst the field has expanded dramatically and – as this issue shows – there remains substantial room for theoretical and empirical contributions, it is also true that forthcoming scholarship will need…
Paradoxes of Populism during the Pandemic
by Rogers Brubaker What makes the present moment so fraught is that the dynamics of medical, economic, political, and epistemic crises interpenetrate in complex and largely unforeseeable ways. The future course of the pandemic, for example, itself depends on many…
Issue #149 December – Populism(s) and Lunch with Bauman
Double Special Issue: Populism(s) and Lunch with Bauman #149, December 2018
Populism(s) – Issue 1
(Thesis Eleven #149, December, 2018)
Why ‘populism(s)’?
Alonso Casanueva Baptista, Raul A. Sanchez Urribarri
Populism and the politics of redemption
Filipe Carreira da Silva, Mónica Brito Vieira
A conceptual analysis of the term ‘populism’
María Pía Lara
Comparative analysis of the emerging projects in Latin America after the crisis of the neoliberal modernity project in the early 21st century
Gustavo Morales
Populism, 21st-century socialism and corruption in Venezuela
Margarita López Maya
Populism(s) – Issue 2
(Thesis Eleven #164, June, 2021)
Beyond populism(s)
Alonso Casanueva Baptista, Raul A. Sanchez Urribarri
Ecuador’s dual populisms: Neocolonial extractivism, violence and indigenous resistance
Angélica María Bernal
Occupying Paulista: Housing activism, the new right and the politics of public space during the Brazilian crisis
Victor Albert
Republicanism and populism: Articulation of plurality or plebeian democratism?
Armando Chaguaceda, Ysrrael Camero
Paradoxes of populism during the pandemic [open access]
Rogers Brubaker
Democracy vs. demography: Rethinking politics and the people as debate[open access]
Emilia Palonen
De-staging the people: On the role of the social and populism beyond politics
Joseph Grim Feinberg
Populism and the separation of power and knowledge
Brian C. J. Singer
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