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Conference

13th Interpretative Policy Analysis Conference (HELD ONLINE)

This year the IPA conference will be held online. We do again two panels: panel 18 Critical Policy Discourse Analysis (see also Montesano Montessori, Farrelly and Mulderrig 2019, Edward Elgar). And panel 24: CDA, Discourse Theory, and Hegemony (see also Special Issue Journal Of Language and Politics: 

There are many other panels of interest as well. 

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).