International Workshop on Populist Discourse
The School of Political Sciences at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki will host a three-day international methodological workshop between 11-13 July 2014. The workshop is entitled ‘Analyzing Populist Discourse: Methods, Tools, Interpretations’ and is organized within the framework of the POPULISMUS research project.
Populism is dynamically and unexpectedly back on the agenda. Apart from offering a comparative mapping of the populist discourse articulated globally, the POPULISMUS research project purports to reassess the category of ‘populism’ and to develop a theoretical approach capable of reorienting the empirical analysis of populist ideologies in the global environment of the 21st century. Building on the theoretical basis offered by the discourse theory developed by the so-called ‘Essex School’, POPULISMUS adopts a discursive methodological framework in order to explore the multiple expressions of populist politics, to highlight the need to study the emerging cleavage between populism and anti-populism and to assess the effects this has on the quality of democracy.
POPULISMUS is implemented within the framework of the Operational Program ‘Education and Lifelong Learning’ (Action “ARISTEIA II”) and is co-funded by the European Union (European Social Fund) and national funds.