Populism has experienced a real boom in social discourse in Europe in recent years, and particularly now in light of the COVID-19 health crisis. This lecture will be held in conjunction with the public lecture series Populism - Semantic Dimensions, International Perspectives, and Political Realities. In this public lecture we will focus especially on the complexity of the concept and the phenomenon of “populism,” privileging a “glocal” perspective which operates in a field of tension between the global dimension of populism, on the one hand, and regional/local questions and processes, on the other. In line with an inter- and transdisciplinary approach, this lecture aims to include perspectives from political science, linguistics, social science, as well as cultural and media studies in order to approximate diverse definitions of populism from different points of view. We will also focus on the interconnectedness of politics and popular culture, analyzing, on the one hand, representations of populism in popular culture (particularly in film and TV series), and focusing on the role of popular culture in the propagation of populism (particularly the social media).
Course Readings:
A course reader will be made available.
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