New research group on populism, radical democracy and square protests
populism based on Ernesto Laclau’s work offers fruitful avenues for this line of research because, for one thing, it emerged from the background of Laclau’s and Mouffe’s earlier theory of radical democracy [...] literature, such as in Paolo Gerbaudo’s influential work. Martin : I guess there isn’t really “the one big change”. Rather, populists react to what they perceive to be elitist politics and position themselves [...] “Prima gli italiani” or “Get Brexit done”, the primary logic appears to be a nationalist or nativist one, i.e. elevating national interests over those of other nations or foreign immigrants. At the same time
