Populism and Time: Temporalities of a Disruptive Politics

by Andy Knott (Editor)

Overview

This book addresses the untapped theoretical encounter between populism and time. It argues that this enquiry can augment analyses of the history, contemporary political practice and theory of populism, by identifying and critically engaging with its appearances, disappearances, and its failure to emerge within the broad scope of global politics. The book incorporates populism's relationship with democracy, modernity, subjectivity, communication, technology and crisis to draw temporal comparisons between populism, and rival political practices and logics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781399527729
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	10/31/2024
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Andy Knott is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Brighton

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction: Populism, Metaphor, Temporality - Andy Knott

Part I: Populism, Politics, History

Chapter 2: On Populism’s Beginnings - Andy Knott

Chapter 3: Populism, Impossible Time, and Democracy’s People Problem - Clare Woodford

Chapter 4: Politics and Time: the Nostalgic, the Opportunist and the Utopian. An Existential Analytic of Podemos’ Ecstatic Times - Adrià Porta Caballé

Part II: Populism and Technology

Chapter 5: Populisation: Populism – Temporary Dysfunction or Modernity’s Revenge? - Simon Tormey

Chapter 6: Populism and the Mirror of Technology - Michaelangelo Anastasiou

Chapter 7: Populism, Social Media and the Technospheric - Jamie Ranger

Part III: Populism and Time in Latin America

Chapter 8: Antagonism, Flexibility and the Surprising Resilience of Populism in Latin America - María Esperanza Casullo

Chapter 9: Rupture, Institutionalisation and Tension. About Populist Temporality in Latin America - Paula Biglieri and Gloria Perelló

Chapter 10: Populism and Constitutionalism in Brazil: an Enduring or Transitional Relationship in Time? - Eleonora Mesquita Ceia

Chapter 11: Conclusion: Time for More? Populism’s Prospects - Andy Knott

Index

Editorial Reviews

Drawing on cutting-edge political theory as well as analysing important empirical cases, this thoughtful collection skilfully sheds light on populism's relationship to time and temporality. In doing so, it does something remarkable: it says something new and important about populism! Highly recommended, timely and worthy of your time.

Benjamin Moffitt