Popular Biopolitics and Populism at Europe's Eastern Margins

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50779-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 495 g

Reihe: Global Populisms

In this groundbreaking book, Andrey Makarychev approaches populism through a critical biopolitical lens and shows that populist narratives are grounded intrinsically in corporeality, sexuality, health, bodily life and religious practices. The author demonstrates that populism is a phenomenon deeply rooted in mass culture. He compares three countries -- Estonia, Ukraine and Russia--that all share post-Soviet experiences offering a broad spectrum of populist discourses. The three case studies display the interconnection between biopower and populism through references to culture, media, art, theatrical performances and literature, raising new questions and directions for understanding traditional accounts of populism.

This work was supported by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 822682: "Populist rebellion against modernity in 21st-century Eastern Europe: neo-traditionalism and neo-feudalism – POPREBEL".

Autoren/Hrsg.

Makarychev, Andrey

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Biopolitics in Search for a Hegemony

1 Popular Biopolitics: A Theoretical Outline

1.1 Biopolitics: A Short Introduction

1.2 Performativity and Popular Biopolitics

1.3 Popular Biopolitics and/of Populism

1.4 Liberalism and Its Disavowal: A Biopolitical Reading

1.5 Bare Lives between Biopolitics and Ideology

1.6 The Regional Focus of the Book

1.7 Methodological Note

2 Estonia: Bare Life between Geo- and Biopolitics

2.1 The Popular Biopolitics of Bare Life: Two Dominant Discourses

2.2 Biopolitical Dislocations

2.3 Contemporary Reverberations: The Reactualization of the Biopolitical Contexts

3 The Screen and the Street: Two Face(t)s of Ukrainian Popular Biopolitics

3.1 From Comedian to President: A Cultural Genealogy of the New(est) Ukrainian Populism

3.2 The Geo-/Biopolitical Construction of Sovereignty in Insecure Times

4 Pastorate and “Somatic Sovereignty” in Russian Popular Biopolitics

4.1 Night Wolves’ Performative Imperialism

4.2 Iben Thranholm’s Biopolitical Interfaces

4.3 The Popular Biopolitics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russian Hegemonic Populism

4.4 Russian Illiberal Populism: An Afterword

Populations, Popular Biopolitics, Populism: Concluding Thoughts

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrey Makarychev, Ph.D. (1999, Nizhny Novgorod State University, Russia), is Professor of Regional Political Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He has published monographs and articles on populism and biopolitics, including Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet: From Populations to Nations (Lexington Books, 2020, co-authored with Alexandra Yatsyk).