Populism and ‘Constructing a People’
Ideology and Discourse Analysis International Conference 2017
2nd – 3rd June 2017
PLEASE SEE NEW IDEOLOGY AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS NETWORK GROUP :
https://www.facebook.com/groups/450631848629289/
Organisers:
Dan Smith
Emilio Feijóo
Mary Economidou
Tim Head
Surya Knöbel
(Department of Government, University of Essex)
Panels :
Panel 1
The Essex School of Discourse Analysis
Jason Glynos, University of Essex
David Howarth, University of Essex
Oliver Marchart, University of Vienna
Aletta Norval, University of Essex
Panel 2
Dimensions of Populism, Terrains of the Political
Nico carpentier, Uppsala University - The construction of ordinary people as location of agonism. An analysis of the articulation of participation and agonism in the Cypriot community media broadcaster MYCYradio
Amanda Machin, Zeppelin University - Green Populism? Constructions of the People, Science and the Environment
Gary Hussey, National University of Ireland, Galway. -Territoriality, Violence, and The Political : The Spatial Constitution of ‘the People’.
Panel 3
Fascism, Authoritarianism, Populism
Allan Dreyer Hansen, Roskilde University - Laclau’s theory of populism and the problem of democracy
Gulshan Khan, University of Nottingham - Democratic Leadership in Populism and Fascism
Georgi Medarov, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria - The limits of the antipopulist notion of totalitarianism: the case of Hannah Arendt
Panel 4
On the Political Subject: Affect, Identification and Receptivity
Tashina Blom, University of Amsterdam -Anger and political behaviour: causal explanation or moralistic condemnation?
Rupert Read, Chair of Green House, University of East Anglia: To combat populism, you have to become popular
Emily Beausoleil, Massey University - Hearing the 'People': Insulation, Fragility, and the Challenge of Receptivity Among Dominant Groups
Flitcroft, Ryan University of Essex - The Radical Decision of the Subject: Understanding the affective grip of populist movements
Panel 5
Right-wing and Religious Populism in the International Context
Mehmet Arisan, University of Istanbul - The Rise and Fall of Liberal Islamist/Conservative Discourse in Turkey: An Analysis of a Controversial Populist Moment in Turkish Politics
Moh Zaki Arrobi, University of Essex - A New wave of Populism?: Constructing ‘People’ and Its ‘Other’ in Indonesia’s Contemporary Politics
Esin KIVRAK, Ankara, Yıldırım Beyazıt University - The Justice and Development Party’s Populism in Turkey
Seongcheol Kim, University of Berlin - The Populism of the Alternative for Germany (AfD): An Extended Essex School Perspective
Panel 6
Theorising Populist Discourse on the Right
Daniel Smith, University of Essex - Right-Wing Populism, Anti-Globalist Discourse and Counter-Hegemony
Arkan Akin, Université de Genève - Populism in the Swiss discourse on integration
David Payne, Södertörn University Stockholm - Some Remarks on the “Proper” in an age of Populist Expropriation
Panel 7
Theorising Grassroot Politics
Kostis Roussos, University of Essex - Grassroots politics within and beyond institutional and state solutions: Collective action and the social force of commoning in crisis-ridden Greece.
Arthur Borriello University of Cambridge and Samuele Mazzolini University of Essex - European populism in the wake of the crisis: a corpus-based analysis of Podemos and M5S’s counter-discourse against neoliberal hegemony
Eric Hoddy and Jonathan Ensor University of York – Agrarian Rights and Democratisation in Brazil
Panel 8
Applications of Discourse Theory: Race, Gender, Identity
Ariel Nash - A Global Perspective on Race
Vigilija Žiūraitė, Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania – Women in Spanish Politics of Change: Analysis of Roles and Discourse
Leen Van Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Fantasies of living together in narratives of daily urban life.
Kathrin Bachleitner University of Oxford - Diplomacy with history: How historic narratives are constructed for foreign policy purposes
Panel 9
Transnational Populism and the Future of the Left
Mark Devenney - University of Brighton - Transnational Populism and Democratic Politics
Paolo Gerbaudo - King's College London - Leftwing populism and the politics of class
Panos Panayotu - University of Essex - Towards a Populism Without Apologies: On the possibilities of a transnational populism
Panel 10
Reading the Populist Phenomena
A.M.M. Jaeger, University of Cambridge - Beyond Formalism: Logics of Populist Producerism in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States
James Ranger University of Oxford - Against Stanley’s ‘Thin-centred ideology’ approach to populism
Alberto Sonego Università degli Studi Roma Tre - Leaders, icons and social media: an elector-based perspective.
V.Stoyanova University of Kent - Studying ‘Populism’: A Theoretical Synthesis of Discourse Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis’.
Panel 11
Political Activism Panel
Speaker TBC - La France Insoumise, France
Eduardo Maura, PODEMOS, Spain
Mateusz Kijowski, Committee for the Defence of Democracy (KOD), Poland
Lewis Bassett University of Manchester, Labour Party Activist, UK - Labour’s populist temptation; from trade unionism to Corbynism
Panel 12
Radical Democracy in Theory and Practice
Spiros Makris, University of Macedonia Thessaloniki - Radical democracy ‘between the universal and the particular’ Some critical reflections on Ernesto Laclau’s political ontology
Paulina Tambakaki, University of Westminster - Rethinking Radical Democracy: Promissory Politics and the Rise of the Many
Omer Tekdemir, University of Leicester - HDP’s Left-leaning Populist Moment in Turkey: Mobilizing Passion of Hope for a Radical Democracy
Jonathan Simons Leeds Trinity University - The People Demand Social Justice” - but has yet to appear
Panel 13
Rethinking Laclau: Representation, Hegemony and Populism
Matko Krce-Ivancic University of Manchester - Why the empty signifier is missing?
Min Seong Kim University of Essex - The evental site of hegemony: Badiou and Laclau on social change
Clare Woodford, University of Brighton - Playing at Populism? Representation and emancipation in the work of Ernesto Laclau
Panel 14
Conceptualizing ‘The Political’: Power, Domination and the Popular Subject
Sara Ferreiro Lago, Complutense de Mardid - En el nombre del pueblo. La problemática en torno al sujeto popular
Juan Telleria, University of the Basque Country - DESTRUCTING (THE CONSTITUTION OF) THE PEOPLE: The UN development agenda as an example of the ‘liberal paradox’
Vjosa Musliu, University of Brussels - A promise for the ‘political’
Liam Farrell, National University of Ireland - The (im)possibility of non-domination: arbitrariness, populism, and the mortification of the political in contemporary normative political philosophy
Panel 15
Media Communication: On the Expanding Terrain of Political Discourse
Amin Hashemi, SOAS - The Struggle over turning the Popular to a Populist:The Case of Invasion of Contemporary Iranian Popular Culture by the State
Yanning Huang, London School of Economics - Chinese cyberspace/online populism
Ali Esref Keles, University of Essex - Constructing the Kurds in Turkish Print Media; Reproducing Ideology and Discourse of Turkish State
José Luis Valhondo Crego, Universidad de Extremadura Spain – Left-wing populism from the viewpoint of the Spanish refrence press