The Populist Radical Left in Europe

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-74480-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 514 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in European Politics

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. It explores the novel discursive, political and organisational features of several political actors, as well as the conditions of their emergence and success, while being alert to the role of relevant social movements.

Chapters feature case studies of the Greek party Syriza, the Spanish Podemos, the German Die Linke, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and France Insoumise, the Dutch Socialist Party and the Slovenian Levica. Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of Labour in the UK and ‘Momentum’, the movement that supports him is also examined. A separate chapter is devoted to recent grassroots social movements that can be seen as instances of progressive populism, such as the ‘squares movement’ in Spain and Greece.

This book fills a crucial gap in the literature on radical left politics and populism in Europe, contributing to the rapidly burgeoning field of populism studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Katsambekis, Giorgos

Kioupkiolis, Alexandros

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

GIORGOS KATSAMBEKIS studied political science at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he also received his doctorate in June 2015. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher there and an associate researcher at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz. He has worked as a researcher in the research project ‘POPULISMUS: Populist Discourse and Democracy’ (2014-2015). His articles and reviews have appeared in a variety of journals, such as the Journal of Political Ideologies, European Political Science, Constellations and Political Studies Review. He recently co-edited the volume Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today (Ashgate 2014).

ALEXANDROS KIOUPKIOLIS has studied classics in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Athens, and political theory at the University of Essex (MA in Political Theory) and the University of Oxford (DPhil). He has taught political theory at the University of Oxford, the University of Cyprus and the Aristotle University, where he is now Assistant Professor of Contemporary Political Theory, in the School of Political Sciences. His research interests focus on modern philosophies of freedom, contemporary philosophies of justice, theories of democracy, analyses and critiques of power. He has published four books and numerous articles on these topics. Recent publications include the edited volume Radical Democracy and Collective Movements today (Ashgate 2014), and the monographs Freedom After the Critique of Foundations: Marx, Liberalism and Agonistic Autonomy (Palgrave 2012), and The Commons of Freedom (Excharchia 2014).