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Download fileThe place of the people in post-democracy: researching ‘antipopulism’ and post-democracy in crisis-ridden Greece
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posted on 2022-05-11, 08:11 authored by Giorgos KatsambekisThe aim of this article is to investigate “antipopulism” as a distinct discursive repertoire that marginalizes “the people” as the legitimizing cornerstone of democracy. After providing an account of the Greek post-democratic transition from the mid-nineties onwards, I will then delve into what could be described as the “populism/anti-populism” ideologicopolitical divide, as it manifests in the Greek political system and also on the European level during the past few years, and especially within the ongoing crisis. The main hypothesis is that “anti-populism” can be seen as a crucial aspect of post-democracy, introducing what could be described as a peculiar Ideological State Apparatus in the Althusserian sense; a way to marginalize disagreement and democratic dissensus and discipline a public sphere in an age dominated by technocratic virtue, expert knowledge and ‘consensus politics’.
History
School
- Social Sciences and Humanities
Department
- International Relations, Politics and History
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POSTData: Revista de Reflexión y Análisis PolíticoVolume
19Issue
2Pages
555 - 582Publisher
Grupo Interuniversitario PostdataVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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Reproduced with the permission of the publisher.Acceptance date
2014-04-25Publication date
2014-11-12Copyright date
2014ISSN
1515-209XeISSN
1851-9601Language
- en