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Populism, Protest, and New Forms of Political Organization: Ten Years after the Movements of the Squares

Populism, Protest, and New Forms of Political Organization: Ten Years after the Movements of the Squares

September 8-10, 2021, Free University Berlin

Joint conference of the DVPW Populism Group Initiative & the PSA Populism Specialist Group

 

Antipodean Populism and the Fabrication of a Risk Society

Over the past decades, populism has increasingly gained ground both on a national and global scale,
turning from an epiphenomenon into a structural aspect of contemporary world politics. Despite its
idiosyncratic features within the manifold socio-historical contexts worldwide, at the core of
populism lies the constitution of an anti-establishment and anti-intellectual group claiming
sovereign powers for a putative homogeneous collectivity, “the people” (Laclau 2005).

Third World Congress of Transdisciplinarity Virtual and Presential

1. Due to the international conditions of the coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, the dates of the III World Congress of Transdisciplinarity are moved for the first week of November 2021, in face-to-face modality. All accepted registrations are maintained for the 2021 event program: the registration process remains open through Easy Chair until January 31, 2021. Prepayments can be made from July 1, 2020 until March 31, 2021.