Populism and the Crisis of Democracy: Volume 1: Concepts and Theory

ISBN-13: 9780367664770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 178 str.

Gregor Fitzi; Juergen Mackert; Bryan Turner

Opis

This volume offers critical views on the debate on populism from the perspectives of political economy and the analysis of critical historical events, the links of analyses of populism with social movement mobilisation and the significance of ‘superfluous populations’ in the rise of populism.

Spis treści

Introduction: Is There Such a Thing as Populism?  Part I: Conceptual Debate  1. Populism as a Conceptual Problem  2. Why Populism?  3. Populism: An Ideal-Typical Assessment  4. How to Define Populism? Reflections on A Contested Concept and Its (Mis)Use in the Social Sciences  5. Populism and ‘Unpolitics’  Part II: Theoretical Approaches  6. ‘We the People’: Liberal and Organic Populism, and the Politics of Social Closure  7. Past Is Prologue: Electoral Events of Spring 2012 and the Old ‘New’ Nationalism in Post-Security Europe  8. The Coterminous Rise of Right-Wing Populism and Superfluous Populations  9. Toward A Strategy for Integrating the Study of Social Movement and Populist Party Mobilisation

O autorze

Gregor Fitzi is co-director of the Centre for Citizenship, Social Pluralism and Religious Diversity at University of Potsdam, Germany. After his PhD in Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, he was assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology, University of Heidelberg, Germany, and held a temporary position as full professor at the University of Bielefeld. His most recent publication is The Challenge of Modernity: Georg Simmel’s Sociological Theory (Routledge, 2018).

Jürgen Mackert is Professor of Sociology and co-director of the ‘Centre for Citizenship, Social Pluralism and Religious Pluralism’ at Potsdam University, Germany. His research interests are in sociology of citizenship, political economy, closure theory, collective violence. His most recent publication is The Transformation of Citizenship (Routledge, 2017), in three volumes, co-edited with Bryan S. Turner.

Bryan S. Turner is Professor of the Sociology of Religion at the Australian Catholic University, Honorary Professor at Potsdam University and Honorary Fellow in The Edward Cadbury Centre, Birmingham University. In 2015 he received the Max Planck Award from the Max-Planck Society and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. He is editor of Citizenship Studies, the Journal of Classical Sociology, and the Journal of Religious and Political Practice. He is also Chief Editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2017).