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Homolar, Alexandra and Löfflmann, Georg (2021) Populism and the affective politics of humiliation narratives. Global Studies Quarterly, 1 (1). ksab002. doi:10.1093/isagsq/ksab002 ISSN 2634-3797.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksab002
Abstract
This article examines how communicative practices, emotion, and everyday experiences of insecurity interlink in processes of populist political mobilization. Combining insights from international security studies, political psychology, and populism research, it demonstrates how populist political agents from the right of the political spectrum have constructed a powerful security imaginary around the loss of past national greatness that creates affinities with the experiences of those who feel disempowered and ties existential anxieties to concerns with immigration, globalization, and integration. As we show, within the populist security imaginary, humiliation is the key discursive mechanism that helps turn abstract notions of enmity into politically consequential affective narratives of loss, betrayal, and oppression. Humiliation binds together an ostensibly conflicting sense of national greatness and victimhood to achieve an emotive response that enables a radical departure from established domestic and international policy norms and problematizes policy choices centered on collaboration, dialogue, and peaceful conflict resolution.
Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | |||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Populism , Political psychology , Communication in politics , Humiliation -- Political aspects | |||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Global Studies Quarterly | |||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | |||||||||
ISSN: | 2634-3797 | |||||||||
Official Date: | March 2021 | |||||||||
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Volume: | 1 | |||||||||
Number: | 1 | |||||||||
Article Number: | ksab002 | |||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/isagsq/ksab002 | |||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This article has been accepted for publication in Global Studies Quarterly Published by Oxford University Press. | |||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 January 2021 | |||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 January 2021 | |||||||||
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