The Materialities of Populism(s)
Journal: Journal of Political Power
Concept Note: This special issue will interrogate the material dimensions of populist politics. The dominant tradition of theorizing populism, post-Marxist discourse theory, associated most prominently with the work of Ernesto Laclau, sought to think ‘populism’ as the ‘royal road to “the political”’ (2005). Such a ‘discursive’ approach to theorizing and studying empirically populist formations, was part of a broader…