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OPEN 20. The Populist Imagination

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OPEN 20. The Populist Imagination

The Role of Myth, Narratives and Identity in Politics

Author:SKOR, Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis, Merijn Oudenampsen

Publisher:NAi Uitgevers

ISBN: 978-90-5662-769-0

  • Paperback
  • English
  • 160 Pages
  • Nov 1, 2010

'Power to the imagination!’ is a renowned rallying cry of the May 1968 uprising in Paris. The appeal to the political imagination signified above all a form of emancipation – imagining a different society, liberation from time-honoured, inflexible roles. Those who are invoking the political imagination now – Berlusconi, the Tea Party, the Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders and many others – have intentions of a quite different nature. Right-wing populist movements are storming the political stage in large parts of Europe and the USA. The imagination is now being deployed to emphasize and pigeonhole identities, to awaken nostalgia for an imaginary past and to cultivate myths. This edition of OPEN addresses imagination and myth in the political arena, within populism and beyond.

Includes an interview with Ernesto Laclau by Rudi Laermans, as well as contributions by Yves Citton, Jolle Demmers and Sameer Mehendale, Luisa Corna, Stephen Duncombe et al.

/ Ook uitegegeven in het Nederlands

'Power to the imagination!’ is a renowned rallying cry of the May 1968 uprising in Paris. The appeal to the political imagination signified above all a form of emancipation – imagining a different society, liberation from time-honoured, inflexible roles. Those who are invoking the political imagination now – Berlusconi, the Tea Party, the Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders and many others – have intentions of a quite different nature. Right-wing populist movements are storming the political stage in large parts of Europe and the USA. The imagination is now being deployed to emphasize and pigeonhole identities, to awaken nostalgia for an imaginary past and to cultivate myths. This edition of OPEN addresses imagination and myth in the political arena, within populism and beyond.

Includes an interview with Ernesto Laclau by Rudi Laermans, as well as contributions by Yves Citton, Jolle Demmers and Sameer Mehendale, Luisa Corna, Stephen Duncombe et al.

/ Ook uitegegeven in het Nederlands

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