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oapen-20.500.12657-759202024-03-28T09:38:22Z A Cultural Approach to Populism Herkman, Juha Politics and government This book is a critical introduction of theorisations and research on contemporary political populism emphasising the cultural perspective. It introduces the basic theories and analyses the cultural construction of populism regarding radical democratic theory and empirical studies. Applying Ernesto Laclau’s and Chantal Mouffe’s theories, the author builds a bridge between radical democratic and ideational approaches on populism with examples and studies that emphasise European radical right populism, alongside the United States, Latin American and Asian cases. Special attention is paid to relationships between populism and democracy and between populism and media. The contemporary appeal of populism is linked to current developments in welfare states and in global economic and cultural trends. The future of populism is discussed in regard to COVID-19 pandemic and Donald Trump’s fall in the US presidential elections in 2020 that together with abovementioned global megatrends and with the development of media and communication environment set conditions for the 2020s populism. Scholars and students of political science, media and communication studies, cultural studies and social sciences will find this a unique and novel approach. 2023-08-30T13:02:21Z 2023-08-30T13:02:21Z 2022 book 9781003267539 9781032212524 9781032212555 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75920 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 9781000580464.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003267539 10.4324/9781003267539 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 2bce7b2b-181b-47a2-a1b1-2fe3ca87467d 9781003267539 9781032212524 9781032212555 Routledge 139 Helsinki University Library and SKS open access
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This book is a critical introduction of theorisations and research on contemporary political populism emphasising the cultural perspective. It introduces the basic theories and analyses the cultural construction of populism regarding radical democratic theory and empirical studies.
Applying Ernesto Laclau’s and Chantal Mouffe’s theories, the author builds a bridge between radical democratic and ideational approaches on populism with examples and studies that emphasise European radical right populism, alongside the United States, Latin American and Asian cases. Special attention is paid to relationships between populism and democracy and between populism and media. The contemporary appeal of populism is linked to current developments in welfare states and in global economic and cultural trends. The future of populism is discussed in regard to COVID-19 pandemic and Donald Trump’s fall in the US presidential elections in 2020 that together with abovementioned global megatrends and with the development of media and communication environment set conditions for the 2020s populism.
Scholars and students of political science, media and communication studies, cultural studies and social sciences will find this a unique and novel approach.
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