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Populism Specialist Group

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The PSA Populism Specialist Group promotes the study of populist discourses, movements and parties at a local, national, European and international level. psapopulism.org

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Théo Aiolfi @theoaiolfi.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Very proud to share this piece with @bolandeira.bsky.social for @jacobinmag.bsky.social, where we discuss the complicated relationship between the radical left and the nation, based on our article in JCES (doi.org/10.1080/1478...).
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Left populists across Europe have sometimes dampened their internationalism in an effort to reach broader audiences. This has produced little in the way of electoral success and often meant giving up a necessary fight against xenophobia.
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The Problem With Left Nationalism
Left populists across Europe have sometimes dampened their internationalism in an effort to reach broader audiences. This has produced little in the way of electoral success and often meant giving up a necessary fight against xenophobia.
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
✊Reimagining emancipatory #politics Hegemony, #Populism, and Political Strategy Today. 🔥Judith Butler and Yannis Stavrakakis offered inspiring keynotes. #JudithButler #ErnestoLaclau
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Jessica Wax-Edwards @waxwards.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Last chance to apply for our online symposium on Visual Populism. Deadline 31 July! #cfp #populism #visual #mediastudies
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Théo Aiolfi @theoaiolfi.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Last reminder 📢 Only three days left to submit your abstracts for our online symposium on the visual side of populism! tinyurl.com/VisualPopuli...
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Théo Aiolfi @theoaiolfi.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Kind reminder about the deadline at the end of July to submit abstracts for the online symposium "Visualising populist identities" on December 2nd and 3rd! Call for Paper here: tinyurl.com/VisualPopuli... Abstract submission there: tinyurl.com/VisualisingP...
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Patriotism or ‘identity’ politics? In JCES, @bolandeira.bsky.social & @theoaiolfi.bsky.social show how Mélenchon’s vision of 'créolisation' shakes up the populist playbook - offering a path beyond nationalist appeals & the worn-out binary of universalism vs. particularism. doi.org/10.1080/1478...
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Théo Aiolfi @theoaiolfi.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
📢 New article with @bolandeira.bsky.social in JCES! Can left populism embrace anti-racism & queer politics - or must it stick to patriotism to reach “the people”? We reply to Rojas-Andrés, Mazzolini & Custodi with a French case: the Mélenchon–Ruffin split.👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
📣Applications for the second Reactionary Politics Summer School are open📣 The summer school provides a space to develop key skills for the research of reactionary politics. It will be hosted hybrid and attendance is free. Bursaries are also available. Sign up below! reacpol.net/summer-schoo...
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Summer School - Reactionary Politics Research Network
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
To all those who have applied for our upcoming workshop in Thessaloniki: As we informed you, we have received an overwhelming number of abstracts and are now in the final stages of the selection process. We will notify you about the outcome soon.
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Announcing the online symposium "Visualising populist identities", organised by @waxwards.bsky.social and @theoaiolfi.bsky.social on Dec 2-3, 2025, with keynotes by @mecasullo.bsky.social and @benmoffitt.bsky.social Read the CfP here (tinyurl.com/VisualPopuli...) & submit your abstracts by July 31
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
New article: ❓Do #populists in power give up their anti-elitism? ❓ How populists from different countries ( #Greece #Poland, #Ukraine), and across the political spectrum (left, right, valence), articulate their anti-elitism while in power? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Giorgos Venizelos @giorgosvenizelos.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
📢New article out ❓Do #populists in power give up their anti-elitism? We explore how populists from different countries (#Greece, #Poland, #Ukraine), and across the political spectrum (left, right, valence), deal with this tension. Open access 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🚨 New article - part of a collaborative series with @revdem2020.bsky.social 👀How Bolsonaro’s Gendered Populist Performance Polarized Brazil 🖋️Antonio Athayde Sauandaj Read it here 👇 www.psapopulism.org/blog/researc...
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
📢 New article on our website: The People's Pope: Bergoglio and Populism 🖋️ by Alessandro Volpi 🔗 Link below: www.psapopulism.org/blog/researc... #pope #Franciscus #vatican #peronism #populism #Bergoglio #PopeFrancis
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
📢 PUBLICATION ALERT! New article by @lazaroskaravasilis.bsky.social in @critdiscstuds.bsky.social re-examines how 'the elite' is constructed in populist discourse, using the cases of Die Linke and AfD. A crucial contribution to populism studies! Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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What we talk about when we talk about ‘the elite’ in populism studies: re-examining an often-neglected term in the cases of Die Linke and AfD
Populism studies have almost exclusively focused on understanding the phenomenon of populism based on how ‘the people’ are constructed as a political subject. Indeed, most of the relevant literatur...
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Emmy Eklundh @emmyeklundh.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
As usual, the PSA was a perfect combo of intellectual challenges and all around fun!
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Théo Aiolfi @theoaiolfi.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
It truly was an honour to receive this award on behalf of our beloved specialist group, which has always been a unique place in academia for me. We are proud that our efforts at fostering this community for critical scholars on populism are recognised & we owe it all to the fidelity of our members!
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Our final #PSA25 panel—held in partnership with Italian Politics SG—wraps up with a sharp discussion on populism and economic elites. Chaired by Vladimir Borden, with papers by Adam Dinsmore, @lauramontecchio.bsky.social, @alexyates2000.bsky.social, Reid Kleinberg & Lorenzo Ghiduci.
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The seventh #PSA25 panel on populism explored its histories and theories in the Global South, with rich contributions from Felipe Linden, Joanildo Burity, @kamilbernaerts.bsky.social, and Robert Upton.
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Giorgos Venizelos @giorgosvenizelos.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🥳Amazing news for our @populismPSA. ‼️We have been voted as the Specialist Group of the year. 🙏Thanks to all current and past convenors as well as members for making this possible.
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PREDEF|Politische Theorie Wien @poltheoriewien.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Today marks the end of a 5-and-a-half month long e-mail exchange with the (very helpful) #OpenAccess Team of @univie.ac.at to have "Imagining Populism Differently" by @olivermarchart.bsky.social added to the u:scholar collection 🎉 Read it here: phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail/o:201... #PREDEF
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Imagining Populism Differently : Notes on the Proposal of a Feminist, Internationalist, Republicanist Populism
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Thomás Zicman de Barros @bolandeira.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We’ve won a prize! So happy to see years of hard work and dedication recognised. Huge congratulations to all past and present convenors—this one’s for all of us!
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
What a way to end #PSA25: Populism SG won Specialist Group of the Year! Huge shoutout to all our amazing convenors, past & present. @bolandeira.bsky.social & @theoaiolfi.bsky.social accepted the award—cheers to @giorgosvenizelos.bsky.social, Juan Roch, Laura Chazel & @janagoyvaerts.bsky.social!
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We are very pleased to welcome the Reactionary Politics Specialist Group as a new sister group in the PSA. We look forward to collaborating on these vital and complementary areas of political research in the years ahead.
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Day three of #PSA25 opens with a timely and thought-provoking panel: What we talk about when we talk about populism, with insights from @k8ebrown.bsky.social, Eduardo Barbabela, and Riku Kusumoto. Chaired by @theoaiolfi.bsky.social .
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We closed the second day at #PSA25 with a fantastic panel co-organized with @journalpolitics.bsky.social on populism and gender minorities - featuring compelling talks by Sergiu Gherghina, @archibaldgustin.bsky.social, Victoria Scheyer, Marianna Griffini, & @tadeovazquez.bsky.social!
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The second day of #PSA25 kicked off with another powerful panel on dislocation and its epistemics! Insightful exchanges with Olivier Ouzilou, @dbonansinga.bsky.social & @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social, @rokuppers.bsky.social, @michaelangeloanast.bsky.social and Andy Knott—deep theory, sharp debates!
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The populism panels rolled on at #PSA25! We wrapped up the day with a rich discussion on innovations in performative approaches. Thought-provoking presentations by @emmyeklundh.bsky.social and Sebastián Ronderos, @wulfrunianchris.bsky.social, Renato Duarte Caetano & @dr-erdogan-c.bsky.social.
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Our second panel yesterday discussed left-wing populism and its challenges, with presentations from @bolandeira.bsky.social and @theoaiolfi.bsky.social, @freddielarden.bsky.social and Hannah Shaw! #PSA25
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
#PSA25 in Birmingham started off with a panel that couldn’t be more fitting: “Birmingham Meets Essex”—bringing Stuart Hall and Ernesto Laclau into dialogue. Sharp talks from Gulshan Khan, Mark Wenman, Daniel Fitzpatrick & @georgenewth.bsky.social. Great energy!
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Giorgos Venizelos @giorgosvenizelos.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🆕New podcast discussing #antipopulism Some of my fav points: 📍Antipopulism projects fears, anxieties and democratic elitism 📍Is the Essex School normative? What about other approaches? 📍The people of right-wing populism is not exactly homogenous
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Juan Roch @juanroch.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
📢📢Happy to see the article "Post-Truth Politics in Action? Representation of the Media in Spanish Radical Parties’ Electoral Campaigns" coauthored with my friend @haapalataru.bsky.social in the journal @cogitatiomac.bsky.social . Open access. www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm...
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Post-Truth Politics in Action? Representation of the Media in Spanish Radical Parties’ Electoral Campaigns | Article | Media and Communication
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! Buenos Aires is also joining the celebration of Laclau & Mouffe’s work with a vibrant conference! Come explore their legacy in populism & radical democracy. 📅 24–26 Sept 2025 📍 Buenos Aires 🇦🇷 📩 Submit by 1 Aug ✍️ Apply here: forms.gle/o3AMgyn854su...
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Call for Papers: Symposium on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness and Black Politics Organised by: @psa-race.bsky.social More info below: psa.ac.uk/specialist-g...
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PSA RMI Political Studies Review Symposium: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness and Black Politics | The Political Studies Association (PSA)
Call for Abstracts Deadline: Friday 25 April 2025 PSA RMI Political Studies Review Symposium: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness and Black Politics Hosted by the Political Studies Association...
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CEVIPOF - Sciences Po @cevipof.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
#Vendredilecture New article @bolandeira.bsky.social @cevipof.bsky.social "Transgressive Aesthetics of Populism" (w/Theo Aiolfi) in @journalpolitics.bsky.social. 👉How #populism disrupts the rules of visibility in politics #aesthetics #queertheory #democracy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The transgressive aesthetics of populism - Thomás Zicman de Barros, Théo Aiolfi, 2025
This article consolidates the emerging discursive-performative paradigm in populist studies by presenting the idea of populism as an aesthetic transgression, br...
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
⏰️ TIC-TOC, TIC-TOC! The deadline is tomorrow! Ready to dive into the future of emancipatory politics in Thessaloniki? Submit your abstract and be part of the conversation at our annual workshop!
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Anyone interested to review this? Please email us! Details about the review process here: www.psapopulism.org/about/faq
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
⏳ DEADLINE REMINDER! ⏳ Don't forget to submit your abstract for our annual workshop featuring Judith Butler and Yannis Stavrakakis! The deadline is this Friday—don’t miss out. More details below! ⬇️
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Giorgos Venizelos @giorgosvenizelos.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
How does emancpatory politics and strategy look today? Send us your abstract by Friday. Judith Butler and Yannis Stavrakakis will be keynotes (in person).
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
⏳ DEADLINE REMINDER! ⏳ Don't forget to submit your abstract for our annual workshop featuring Judith Butler and Yannis Stavrakakis! The deadline is this Friday—don’t miss out. More details below! ⬇️
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Benjamin De Cleen @benjamindecleen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Really happy www.researchcenterdesire.eu could team up with the Populism Specialist Group to co-host this workshop to rethink hegemony, populism & political strategy for the current moment.
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
⏳️ DEADLINE REMINDER! ⌛️ Only two weeks left to submit your abstracts for our workshop on populism, hegemony, and the future of emancipatory politics, featuring Judith Butler and Yannis Stavrakakis in Thessaloniki! Don’t miss out—details below! ⬇️
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George Newth @georgenewth.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
My article with @scopelliti.bsky.social on far-right uses of common sense has been assigned an issue. With Trump's and UK Reform's recent claims to represent 'common sense', it provides some analysis of how this is a frequently used trope in reactionary politics doi.org/10.1177/1354...
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Common sense, populism, and reactionary politics on Twitter: An analysis of populist far-right common sense narratives between 2008 and 2022 - George Newth, Alessio Scopelliti, 2025
Far-right parties often depict their ideas as ‘common sense’ and as self-evident, natural, just, and proper. This article examines the extent to which there is ...
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
1/ 📢 CALL FOR PAPERS Join us in Thessaloniki 🇬🇷 for our 9th Annual Workshop to rethink hegemony, populism & political strategy in today’s turbulent world. Keynotes: Judith Butler & Yannis Stavrakakis 🗓 2–3 Oct 2025 📝 Submit by 14 Mar 2025 More info: www.psapopulism.org/events/2025-...
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Thomás Zicman de Barros @bolandeira.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
🥳 NEW ARTICLE! I'm very happy to share this article I co-authored with my friend @theoaiolfi.bsky.social! It’s one of the most significant contributions of my career, developed over 2 years of deep reflection and collaboration. If you have trouble accessing it, reach out—I’ll gladly send you a copy!
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Populism Specialist Group @populismpsa.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
📢 PUBLICATION ALERT! In this article, @bolandeira.bsky.social & @theoaiolfi.bsky.social bridge discursive & performative approaches to populism through aesthetic transgression—engaging queer theory along the way! A must-read for those interested in populism, aesthetics & radical politics!
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Théo Aiolfi @theoaiolfi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
📝 NEW WORK OUT 1/ Excited to share our article "The Transgressive Aesthetics of Populism" (w/ @bolandeira.bsky.social) in @journalpolitics.bsky.social. We explore how populism disrupts the rules of visibility in politics, connecting aesthetics, queer theory & democracy 🧵 doi.org/10.1177/0263...
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The transgressive aesthetics of populism - Thomás Zicman de Barros, Théo Aiolfi, 2025
This article consolidates the emerging discursive-performative paradigm in populist studies by presenting the idea of populism as an aesthetic transgression, br...
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Hannah Oorts @hannahoorts.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Join me and @kamilbernaerts.bsky.social at @warwickpais.bsky.social for a workshop combining our research interests: #performance 🎭and #polarisation ↔️! With a keynote by Professor Paula Diehl, discussed by Professor Michael Saward and YOUR paper presentations! ✨Hope to see you there!✨
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 04/02/2025
Every time I decide to stop working on populism, the @populismpsa.bsky.social puts out a great call for papers that brings me straight back in
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