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Petrović, Goran (2021) Performance and populism. Choreographing popular forms of collectivity. In: Rai, Shirin and Gluhovic, Milija and Jestrovic, Silvija and Saward, Michael , (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance. Oxford handbooks . New York, NY: Oxford University Press , pp. 679-692. ISBN 9780190863456
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Abstract
Seeking return of democracy into the realm of politics and popular sovereignty into state institutions, populist movements and political parties arose across the world in the early years of the twenty-first century on both sides of the political spectrum. Whether conceived as a way of doing politics, ideology, style, figure, discourse, political logic, or strategy, populism in all these views implies a moment of division between the people and the elite. This is why the debate about populism is a political debate about constructing the people, that is, new forms of subjectivity, community, or collectivity. To envisage alternative ways of living together, some political philosophers from the left found inspiration in the horizontal, leaderless civic movements, such as Occupy, and the notion of the self-organized multitude. Others found inspiration in the vertical civic movements with leadership, such as Podemos, and the notion of constructed people. The segmentation of civic and political structures that emanates from such a dualism prevents the left from displacing neoliberalism, arresting the increasing institutionalization of right-wing populism and invigorating democracy. To find a way out of this deadlock and empower the left, this chapter envisages the relationship between these disparate views in co-constitutive terms. What I will be calling the choreography of articulation is the performative practice that transforms horizontality into verticality, embodying the multitude of democratic identities in a popular form of collectivity. The performance 100% City by the German-based ‘collective’ Rimini Protokoll offers a view on articulation as a choreographing practice of embodying imagined forms of collectivity.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JC Political theory P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre and Performance Studies | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Populism , Populism and the arts, Performance art , Theater and society, Performing arts -- Political aspects, Rimini Protokoll (Theater group), Theater -- Political aspects | ||||
Series Name: | Oxford handbooks | ||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||
Place of Publication: | New York, NY | ||||
ISBN: | 9780190863456 | ||||
Book Title: | The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance | ||||
Editor: | Rai, Shirin and Gluhovic, Milija and Jestrovic, Silvija and Saward, Michael | ||||
Official Date: | 10 March 2021 | ||||
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Page Range: | pp. 679-692 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190863456.013.56 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Re-use Statement: | This is a draft of a chapter published by Oxford University Press in The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance edited by Rai, S. et al. Lotina, Goran Petrović, 'Performance and Populism: Choreographing Popular Forms of Collectivity', in Shirin Rai, and others (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance (2021), Oxford Academic, 10 Mar. 2021 reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190863456.013.56 | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 January 2024 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 January 2024 | ||||
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