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Record Nr.

UNINA9910739494903321

Autore

Herkman Juha

Titolo

A cultural approach to populism / / Juha Herkman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon, UK ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-00-326753-X

1-003-26753-X

1-000-58046-6

1-000-58047-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (139 pages)

Disciplina

320.56/62

Soggetti

Populism

Political culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"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 US, 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 above-mentioned 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"--