Yannis Stavrakakis

Populist Discourse (eBook, PDF)

Recasting Populism Research

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Produktbeschreibung

Populist Discourse: Recasting Populism Research offers a refreshingly original perspective on populist phenomena. Inspired by the works of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, the book analyses how conceptual reflexivity, theoretical awareness and historical alertness are established as guiding principles in populism research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040009420
• Artikelnr.: 70135302

Autorenporträt

Yannis Stavrakakis studied political science in Athens (Panteion) and Essex. He has worked at the universities of Essex and Nottingham before taking up a position at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2007, where he currently directs the Postgraduate Programme in Political Theory and the Laboratory for the Study of Democracy. His research focuses primarily on contemporary political theory (with emphasis on psychoanalytic and post-structuralist approaches) and on the analysis of ideology and discourse in late modern societies (with emphasis on populism and anti-populism). He was one of the founding co-conveners of the Populism Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association (UK) and directs the POPULISMUS Observatory: www.populismus.gr.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Towards a genealogy of populism 2. Researching populism:
the mainstream, old and new 3. (Populist) discourse: an alternative
approach 4. Populist (discourse): the toolkit Conclusion: the democratic
promise of populism and its discontents

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Introduction 1. Towards a genealogy of populism 2. Researching populism: the mainstream, old and new 3. (Populist) discourse: an alternative approach 4. Populist (discourse): the toolkit Conclusion: the democratic promise of populism and its discontents

Rezensionen

Populist Discourse: Recasting Populism Research provides a bracing assessment of populism studies, offering an accessible and original account of developments in this field since populism first burst onto the political scene. As one of the leading scholars of the Essex School, Stavrakakis nails discourse theory firmly onto the map of contemporary populism research. He finally delivers the first comprehensive and authoritative book-length treatment of its kind since Laclau's On Populist Reason, bound to become a standard scholarly reference for years to come.

Jason Glynos, University of Essex, UK

An indispensable book illuminating the most controversial issue in contemporary politics: populism. Each chapter, masterfully organized around precisely targeted questions, allows one to navigate this field anew. The often complex theoretical fabric of discourse theory is here operationalized in order to inform and animate a robust methodology tackling heterogeneous phenomena in elucidating ways. And all this from a critical perspective that escapes from any Eurocentric attitude, revealing Stavrakakis as a truly global thinker.

Paula Biglieri, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Populist Discourse: Recasting Populism Research is a thoughtful and timely engagement with the phenomenon of populism. Yannis Stavrakakis dispels widespread misconceptions about populism and charts new directions for thinking about populism's relationship to democracy. None of the many books on populism written over the last decade exhibit the historical sensibility, empirical sensitivity, and analytical sharpness on display in Populist Discourse. A must read for scholars and the wider public as well.

John P. McCormick, University of Chicago, USA

[The] book is theoretically rich, dense, and detailed in its argumentation. Guiding questions and key themes appear in bold throughout each chapter, and this editorial choice results in helpful signposting for the academic and nonexpert reader alike, making the text a useful one for upper-level classroom teaching.

AndreaMcDonnell, Journal of Language and Politics