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URL:https://murmitoyen.com/events/vanille/udem/detail/809067-the-populist-m
 yth-and-the-populist-body
LOCATION:Université de Montréal - Carrefour des arts et des sciences\, 31
 50\, rue Jean-Brillant \, Montréal\, QC\, Canada\, H3T 1N8
SUMMARY:The populist myth and the populist body
DESCRIPTION:Séminaire 2017-2018
\nConférencière invités : Maria Esperan
 za Casullo
\nMaria Esperanza Casullo is an associate professor at the Univ
 ersidad Nacional de Río Negro\, in Argentina. She was a Visiting Professo
 r at University of Richmond and Brown University. Her main work and resear
 ch is on democratic theory and on populism\, both theoretically and compar
 atively in Latin America.  Her most recent publications are the chapters 
 'Populist and Programmatic Parties in Latin American Party Systems' and 'P
 opulist Parties of Latin America: the Cases of Argentina and Ecuador' (coa
 uthored with Flavia Freidenberg) in Heinisch\, Holtz-Bacha and Mazzoleni (
 2017) 'Political Populism: a Handbook'. She is published in Revista PostDA
 TA\, Social Movement Studies\, the Handbook of Latin American Studies and 
 Nueva Sociedad. She is finalizing a book about the use of the populist myt
 h in the discourses of Hugo Chávez\, Evo Morales\, Néstor and Cristina K
 irchner\, Donald Trump and Mauricio Macri to be published next June.
\nPop
 ulist mobilization is a powerful thing. Politicians become leaders\, polit
 ical parties rise and fall\, regimes change under its pull. But where\, ex
 actly does the power of populism come from? The energy that is unleashed b
 y it comes from the representative bond between leaders and followers\, bu
 t the linkage itself has not been sufficiently theorized. Political scienc
 e has focused on the how of populism: how do leaders construct their disco
 urses\, how they mobilize passions and grievances\, how does the populist 
 power benefit from the sense of loss and disruption caused by rapidly chan
 ging social circumstances. However\, much less--if any--has been written o
 n the why . Why do some people choose to be represented by populist leader
 s? Why do they become invested in the ideas and words that are presented t
 o them\, ideas which they might have rejected not long ago? The talk will 
 present two possible answers to this questions that focus on the ways in w
 hich populist leaders talk and act: the first one states that the populist
  bond is enmeshed in a certain type of discourse\, which will be called 't
 he populist myth'. The second one will focus on the notion of  bodily per
 formance as synecdochal representation\; this refers to the ways in which 
 the very body of the leader becomes the embodiment of the entrance of the 
 people into political spaces from where they felt excluded before. The pop
 ulist myths and the populist bodies of several current presidents will be 
 discussed as well.
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