Excluding Emotions: The Performative Function of Populism

Eklundh, Emmy

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“…Empirically, this article offers a novel perspective on the real-life consequences of the term 'populism' (De Cleen et al, 2018, 2020. Methodologically, this article responds to the call to combine SRT and discursive psychology (Augoustinos, 2019;Batel & Castro, 2018;Jovchelovitch, 2019).…”

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“…Additionally, by utilizing the discursive reading of our data, we demonstrate how the naturalized representation of populism is resisted and challenged in lay discourse. We ground our study in an emerging line of research based on Laclau's (2005) approach to populism as a floating signifier, the definition of which is an ongoing process, and which hegemonic uses have real-life consequences (De Cleen, Glynos, & Mondon, 2018, 2020.…”

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“…Several scholars have argued that due to the difficulty of the concept, it is often used incorrectly or even without a definition (e.g., Canovan, 1999;Laclau, 2005). Eklundh (2020) further argued that the term's usage in media has ledintentionally or unintentionally-to discursive societal divides between ingroups and outgroups. In Finland, the context of this study, the debate on the definition of populism changed after the Finns Party (FP) achieved a record election victory in 2011 (Palonen & Saresma, 2018).…”

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Lay representations of populism: Discursive negotiation of naturalized social representation

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2023

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Despite the importance of naturalized representations for explaining, creating and recreating social reality, little empirical research has examined the resistance to and change in naturalized representations in talk. By approaching populism as a naturalized representation, this article examines the dialogical construction of populism in 55 Finnish lay interviews. Our analysis consists of two parts. First, we conduct a reflexive thematic analysis to identify the meanings of the naturalized representation of populism. Additionally, by relying on work in critical discursive psychology, we perform a more fine‐grained analysis to illustrate how the naturalized representation of populism is used in talk to construct social reality and intergroup boundaries. Second, by relying on critical discursive psychology, we illustrate the discursive strategies that allowed some of our interviewees to contest the naturalized representation of populism in talk. This study offers novel contributions to the existing literature on populism and social representations by analysing the meanings and functions of the term ‘populism’ in lay discourse, responding to the call to combine social representations theory and the discursive approach, and offering insights into the changes in naturalized representations. Please refer to the Supplementary Material section to find this article's Community and Social Impact Statement.

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Lay representations of populism: Discursive negotiation of naturalized social representation

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2023

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Mad Marx? Rethinking Emotions, Euroscepticism and Nationalism in the Populist Left

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2021

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Much attention has been devoted to how right-wing populists in Europe challenge the consensus on the benefits of European integration, but left-wing resistance to the EU is less discussed. Existing analyses tend to distinguish between three constructions of political community: a postnational EU, the populist right invoking national sovereignty, and the populist left invoking popular sovereignty. However, empirical analyses struggle to find consensus on how left populists relate to the EU, and if they invoke claims to national or popular sovereignty. This article argues that this empirical impasse stems from that populism and Euroscepticism are performative categories and not simply analytical tools, and serve to produce exclusion. There are two dichotomies in this exclusionary frame: emotional populists/rational EU, and the postnational EU/nationalist populists. Through an analysis of Podemos in Spain and the UK Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn, I show how the lines between the postnational EU, the national sovereign, and the popular sovereign are frailer than previously thought. The article concludes that these categories are less analytically astute than they are politically motivated, and analyses of the populist left in Europe must consider the performative dimension of its key terms.

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Excluding Emotions: The Performative Function of Populism

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Lay representations of populism: Discursive negotiation of naturalized social representation

Lay representations of populism: Discursive negotiation of naturalized social representation

Mad Marx? Rethinking Emotions, Euroscepticism and Nationalism in the Populist Left

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