The Populist Radical Left in Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367731175 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 216 str.

Giorgos Katsambekis; Alexandros Kioupkiolis

Opis

Building on a comprehensive theoretical framework that draws on discursive and ideational approaches to populism, this volume offers a comparative mapping of the Populist Radical Left in contemporary Europe.

Spis treści

Introduction - The populist radical left in Europe Chapter 1 – The Populist Radical Left in Greece: Syriza in opposition and in power Chapter 2 – Late modern adventures of leftist populism in Spain: the case of Podemos, 2014-2018 Chapter 3 – Between populism and socialism: Slovenia’s Left party Chapter 4 – Jean-Luc Mélenchon and France Insoumise: the manufacturing of populism Chapter 5 – The Dutch Socialist Party: from Maoist sect to Social Democratic mass party with a populist style Chapter 6 – The German Left Party: A case of pragmatic populism Chapter 7 – Corbynism, Populism and the Re-shaping of Left Politics in Contemporary Britain Chapter 8 – Populism 2.0: New movements towards progressive populism Chapter 9 - Postscript: Populism, the (radical) left and the challenges for future research

O autorze

Giorgos Katsambekis is a Lecturer in European and International Politics at Loughborough University. He has co-edited the volume Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today (Ashgate 2014). His recent work has appeared in The Political Quarterly, Constellations, European Political Science, Javnost–The Public, Contemporary Political Theory, Critical Discourse Studies and The Journal of Political Ideologies.

Alexandros Kioupkiolis is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Political Theory at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interests are focussed on radical democracy, the commons, social movements, and the philosophy of freedom. He is directing an ERC COG project on these topics (Heteropolitics, 2017–2020) and has published numerous relevant books and papers, including the monograph Freedom after the critique of foundations (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), and the collective volume Radical democracy and collective movements today (Ashgate 2014). His new monograph is entitled Τhe Common and Counter-hegemonic Politics (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press 2019).