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In person icon Building: VMP 5, Floor: 4, Room: 4098
Thursday 15:50 - 17:30 CEST (23/08/2018)
The 2008 economic crisis has been accompanied by a legitimation crisis of political institutions in Western countries and, particularly, by the erosion of mainstream parties' representational role. In the last decade and across the ideological spectrum, several populist newcomers have demanded democratic regeneration and have claimed to represent the "common people" against the political and economic elites. Accordingly, the academic attention on populism is rapidly expanding, with a particular emphasis on right-wing phenomena but also on left-wing and allegedly more inclusionary actors, such as some Latin American governments in the 2000s (Mudde and Rovira Kaltwasser 2013). This scholarship mostly investigates whether emerging actors are innovating with respect to established practices or are simply repackaging prior discourses in fashionable ways. However, few studies currently examine the new wave of populism through feminist lenses (e.g. Köttig, Bitzan and Pető 2017; Norocel 2013; 2015). This panel addresses this gap by exploring the relationship between populism and feminist politics, including the impact of populist forces on the promotion of gender equality policies. Paying close attention to the diagnosed "populist moment" in contemporary politics, the panel will shed light on how the relation between populist actors and feminist politics expresses complex dynamics, often openly antagonistic, sometimes apparently supportive. It will debate the extent to which common features of populism -such as the construction of a homogenous "people" and the language of ethnic division, top-down party structures and charismatic leaderships, or masculinist and competitive language- are problematic for feminist principles -such as embracing diversity and promoting horizontality and collaborative dynamics. Drawing on recent debates, this panel examines populist forces across the ideological spectrum, located in different socio-cultural contexts, including North and South European countries, as well as Latin and North America. The challenges that populist forces pose to feminist politics are compelling: Do all populist forces contradict feminist politics? What are the differences between left and right populisms in the promotion of gender equality? How can we trace the contradiction towards feminist politics in populist discourses? To what extent do populist forces reproduce a similar gendered culture of traditional parties? And finally, in the current context of a legitimation crisis of political institutions, to what extent does populism open/close off opportunities for re-gendering politics?
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Intersectional Dilemmas of Active Citizenship: Contending with Nationalisms in the Nordic Region | View Paper Details |
Left and Right Populism in Spain and Finland: What Room is There for Feminist Politics? | View Paper Details |
The Framing of Gender by Populist Actors: the Case of Evo Morales' Government in Bolivia | View Paper Details |
Dominant Masculine Populism and Feminization of Politics in Podemos | View Paper Details |
A Visual and Digital Analysis of Right Wing Populist and Anti-Genderist Coalitions in Western Europe | View Paper Details |