Populism Specialist Group
@populismpsa.bsky.social
The PSA Populism Specialist Group promotes the study of populist discourses, movements and parties at a local, national, European and international level.
https://psapopulism.org
https://psapopulism.org
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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!
✊Reimagining emancipatory #politics
Hegemony, #Populism, and Political Strategy Today.
🔥Judith Butler and Yannis Stavrakakis offered inspiring keynotes.
#JudithButler #ErnestoLaclau
Hegemony, #Populism, and Political Strategy Today.
🔥Judith Butler and Yannis Stavrakakis offered inspiring keynotes.
#JudithButler #ErnestoLaclau
October 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
✊Reimagining emancipatory #politics
Hegemony, #Populism, and Political Strategy Today.
🔥Judith Butler and Yannis Stavrakakis offered inspiring keynotes.
#JudithButler #ErnestoLaclau
Hegemony, #Populism, and Political Strategy Today.
🔥Judith Butler and Yannis Stavrakakis offered inspiring keynotes.
#JudithButler #ErnestoLaclau
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Last chance to apply for our online symposium on Visual Populism. Deadline 31 July!
#cfp #populism #visual #mediastudies
#cfp #populism #visual #mediastudies
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
Read the CfP here (tinyurl.com/VisualPopuli...) & submit your abstracts by July 31
July 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Last chance to apply for our online symposium on Visual Populism. Deadline 31 July!
#cfp #populism #visual #mediastudies
#cfp #populism #visual #mediastudies
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Last reminder 📢
Only three days left to submit your abstracts for our online symposium on the visual side of populism!
tinyurl.com/VisualPopuli...
Only three days left to submit your abstracts for our online symposium on the visual side of populism!
tinyurl.com/VisualPopuli...
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
Read the CfP here (tinyurl.com/VisualPopuli...) & submit your abstracts by July 31
July 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Last reminder 📢
Only three days left to submit your abstracts for our online symposium on the visual side of populism!
tinyurl.com/VisualPopuli...
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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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...
Call for Paper here: tinyurl.com/VisualPopuli...
Abstract submission there: tinyurl.com/VisualisingP...
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
Read the CfP here (tinyurl.com/VisualPopuli...) & submit your abstracts by July 31
July 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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...
Call for Paper here: tinyurl.com/VisualPopuli...
Abstract submission there: tinyurl.com/VisualisingP...
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...
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...
June 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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...
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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📢 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....
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....
June 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
📢 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....
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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📣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...
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...
Summer School - Reactionary Politics Research Network
reacpol.net
June 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
📣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...
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...
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.
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.
May 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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.
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.
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
Read the CfP here (tinyurl.com/VisualPopuli...) & submit your abstracts by July 31
May 22, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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
Read the CfP here (tinyurl.com/VisualPopuli...) & submit your abstracts by July 31
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....
❓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....
May 21, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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....
❓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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📢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....
❓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....
May 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
📢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....
❓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....
🚨 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...
@revdem2020.bsky.social
👀How Bolsonaro’s Gendered Populist Performance Polarized Brazil
🖋️Antonio Athayde Sauandaj
Read it here 👇
www.psapopulism.org/blog/researc...
May 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🚨 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...
@revdem2020.bsky.social
👀How Bolsonaro’s Gendered Populist Performance Polarized Brazil
🖋️Antonio Athayde Sauandaj
Read it here 👇
www.psapopulism.org/blog/researc...
📢 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
The People's Pope: Bergoglio and Populism
🖋️ by Alessandro Volpi
🔗 Link below:
www.psapopulism.org/blog/researc...
#pope #Franciscus #vatican #peronism #populism #Bergoglio #PopeFrancis
April 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
📢 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
The People's Pope: Bergoglio and Populism
🖋️ by Alessandro Volpi
🔗 Link below:
www.psapopulism.org/blog/researc...
#pope #Franciscus #vatican #peronism #populism #Bergoglio #PopeFrancis
📢 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....
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....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
📢 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....
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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As usual, the PSA was a perfect combo of intellectual challenges and all around fun!
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.
April 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
As usual, the PSA was a perfect combo of intellectual challenges and all around fun!
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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!
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!
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!
April 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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!
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!
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.
April 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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.
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.
April 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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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🥳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.
‼️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.
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!
April 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
🥳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.
‼️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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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
Read it here: phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail/o:201...
#PREDEF
Imagining Populism Differently : Notes on the Proposal of a Feminist, Internationalist, Republicanist Populism
phaidra.univie.ac.at
April 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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
Read it here: phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail/o:201...
#PREDEF
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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!
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!
April 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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!
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!
April 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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!
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.
We're delighted to launch the Reactionary Politics Specialist Group of the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social at #PSA25. Keep your eyes on our feed for updates on all of our upcoming activities.
April 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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.
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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April 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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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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!
April 16, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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!