Populism as narrative, myth making, and the ‘logic’ of political emotions

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• dc.contributor.author Ungureanu, Camil
• dc.contributor.author Popartan, Alexandra
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-11-14T07:09:37Z
• dc.date.available 2022-11-14T07:09:37Z
• dc.date.issued 2020
• dc.description.abstract ‘Populism’ has become one of the most confusing terms in debates in academia and the public sphere. In this paper, we distinguish between formal and substantive approaches to populism (for example, Ernesto Laclau’s formal ontology and the widespread view of populism as a ‘thin ideology’), and argue that they are one-sided: the formal approach that sets aside any questions of discursive content turns ‘populism’ into an ahistorical and catch-all concept; in turn, the substantive approach focused on ideological content tends to overlook the centrality of antagonistic political emotions and myth making in the current populist dynamic, namely its anti-ideological component. As a result, we look beyond the formal–substantive dichotomy and consider the dominant populism as a specific type of political narrative; key to this perspective are narrative patterns, political myth making and a constitutive ‘logic’ of affective intensification.
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• dc.identifier.citation Ungureanu C, Popartan A. Populism as narrative, myth making, and the ‘logic’ of political emotions. Journal of the British Academy. 2020 Feb 24;8(1 Suppl A Mediterranean perspective on European Union and disunion):37–43. DOI: 10.5871/jba/008s1.037
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/jba/008s1.037
• dc.identifier.issn 2052–7217
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/54823
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher British Academy
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of the British Academy. 2020 Feb 24;8(1 Suppl A Mediterranean perspective on European Union and disunion):37–43
• dc.rights © The author(s) 2020. This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Unported License.
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Populism
• dc.subject.keyword Ontology
• dc.subject.keyword Ideology
• dc.subject.keyword Political narrative
• dc.subject.keyword Political emotions
• dc.subject.keyword Ernesto Laclau
• dc.title Populism as narrative, myth making, and the ‘logic’ of political emotions
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