Paolo Cossarini - Populism and Passions: Democratic Legitimacy after Austerity

There is a consensus that right and left-wing populism is on the rise on both sides of the Atlantic, from Donald Trump in the United States, to Spains leftist Podemos. These may utilize different kinds of populist mobilizations but the fact remains that elite and mass opinion is fuelling a populist backlash.

In Populism and Passions, twelve scholars engage with discourse analysis, democratic theory, and post structural political thought to study the political logic of passion for contemporary populism. Together these interdisciplinary essays demonstrate what emotional engagement implies for the spheres of politics and the social, and how it governs and mobilizes individuals. The volume presents:

• Theoretical and empirical implications for political analysis
• chapters on the current rise of populism, both right and left-wing trends, their different ideological features, and their relationship with the logic of passion
• theoretical implications for the future study of populism and democratic legitimacy.

A timely analysis of this political phenomena in contemporary Western democracies, Populism and Passions is ideal for students and scholars in political theory, comparative politics, social theory, critical theory, cultural studies, and global studies.

Paolo Cossarini is Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of International Studies at the University of Trento, Italy. He previously taught Politics and International Relations at Loughborough University, UK. He has held visiting positions at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, Queen Mary University of London, and has been a member of the research project The political consequences of the economic crisis founded by the Spanish Ministry of Education. His research focuses on democratic theory and populism, Spanish politics and nationalism, and the role of emotions in protest movements and political communication, as well as border and migration studies. He has published in Global Discourse, European Political Science, and Revista de Estudios Polticos, among other journals.

Fernando Vallespn is Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Autnoma de Madrid, Spain. He has directed the Department of Political Science and International Relations and the Centro de Teora Poltica at the same University. He has also been a postdoctoral Fulbright researcher at Harvard University, and has been visiting professor at the universities of Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Veracruz and Malaysia. He has published several books and over one hundred academic papers and chapters. Additionally, he was President of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociolgicas (CIS) between May 2004 and May 2008, Academic Director of the Fundacin Ortega-Maran (20122015), President of the Spanish Association of Political Studies (20132015) and member of IPSAs Executive Council (20142016).

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Towards a Democratic Socialist Politics

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9. Emotions, Protest, Democracy

Collective Identities in Contemporary Spain

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10. Populism and Passions

Democratic Legitimacy after Austerity

Edited by Paolo Cossarini and Fernando Vallespn

POPULISM AND PASSIONS

Democratic Legitimacy after Austerity

Edited by Paolo Cossarini and Fernando Vallespn

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Paolo Cossarini and Fernando Vallespn

Manuel Arias Maldonado

Nicolas Demertzis

Benjamin Moffitt

Emmy Eklundh

Jason Glynos and Aurelien Mondon

Paulina Tambakaki

scar Garca Agustn

Paolo Cossarini

Simon Tormey

Fernando Vallespn and Mriam M. Bascun

scar Garca Agustn is Associate Professor at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University. With Christian Ydesen he has co-edited the book Post-crisis Perspectives: The Common and its Powers (2013), and with Martin Bak Jrgensen he has co-edited Politics of Dissent (2015) and Solidarity Without Borders: Gramscian Perspectives on Migration and Civil Society (2016). He is also co-editor, with Marco Briziarelli, of Podemos and the New Political Cycle (2018). He is author of Discurso y autonoma Zapatista