‘Jews and Muslims in the White Supremacist Conspiratorial Imagination’ by Ron Hirschbein & Amin Asfari'. Craig F routledge.com/Jews-and-Musli…

Check out our first graphic article on #Populism & #nativism in contemporary #India, adapted from work on the #Hindutva movement published on #RethinkingPopulism rethinkingpopulism.net/populism-nativ…

Join us to discuss my latest book - Turkish Politics and ‘The People’: Mass Mobilisation and Populism - with Bahar Baser, Dimitar Bechev and me at its launch event on Monday 6 March at 5.30. For more details see lse.ac.uk/middle-east-ce…

How has the notion of 'the people' evolved in Turkish political discourses since the establishment of the Turkish Republic? To find out more, join us on Monday 6 March for Spyros A. Sofos' book launch with Bahar Baser & Dimitar Bechev. Register now: lse.ac.uk/middle-east-ce…

FYI Red Populismo, Republicanismo y Crisis Global OPUS | Young Scholars Initiative on Populism Populism and International Relations The Populism Seminar Populism Updates Team Populism Rethinkingpopulism Illiberalism Studies Program Illiberal Turn Extremism&Democracy The Interdisciplinary Journal of Populism Institute for Research on Male Supremacism Populism and Civic Engagement Populism in Action Project Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism & Polarisation PopulismoNews Populismus Populism Study Circle 𝐩𝐨𝐩 🍔👾💣 | populismblog.bsky.social

The carnivalesque atmosphere of ‘street democracy’ constitutes a manifestation of 'the people's' 'indivisible will' which supersedes individual & particularistic rights & whose opponents are to be symbolically or physically destroyed. From my book Turkish Politics & 'the People'

Culture War in the War in Ukraine Dr João Ferreira Dias, an ECPS ECRN member, argues that Putin’s narrative of the Ukrainian government as “Nazis” and “junkies” is a rhetoric of legitimation of invasion and a performance of culture war. populismstudies.org/culture-war-in…

Fathers of the Lega: Populist Regionalism & Populist Nationalism In Historical Perspective investigates the historical roots of the populist far-right Lega, tracing its origins to post-war Italy. By George Newth routledge.com/Fathers-of-the…

Deploying the notion of 'moral panic' to discuss the current debates over the trans 'threat' Fran Amery and Aurelien Mondon point out the similarities with panics targeting other minorities jacobin.com/2023/03/uk-lib…

Jan-Werner Mueller: Even if the opposition unites against an incumbent strongman it is difficult to change the parameters of politics. Yet, in Hungary, Israel & Turkey, that is what a heterogeneous opposition coalition must do to have a chance of winning project-syndicate.org/commentary/ant…

I have just received the great news that my article on the various uses of the concept of "empty signifier" has finally been published in the renowned Journal of Political Ideologies! The first fifty users can access the article for free at the link below. tandfonline.com/eprint/EDI8JXN…

Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups, by Benjamin De Cleen and Juan Alberto Ruiz Casado journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Announcement: We will be hosting a virtual book launch with Spyros Sofos from LSE Middle East The online event will take place on 8 June 2023, 13:00– 14:00 BST The book will be discussed by Evren Balta & Toygar Sinan Baykan See more below 👇 #PSA2023 eventbrite.co.uk/e/virtual-book…

Giorgos Venizelos's Populism in Power coming out soon!

Abstract submission deadline: 1 June 2023

For anyone interested in the overlap between performance and populism, this is my humble attempt to make sense of it all: routledge.com/Performance-an…

As the #TurkishElections approach, what path will Turkish citizens choose for the Republic? In any case, the opposition must build a stronger front and provide an effective alternative to Erdoğan's vision and populism. Spyros A. Sofos for the blog wp.me/p3Khxv-3EJ

This article on #DonaldTrump's transgressive style is now published in Volume 49, Issue 4-5 of Critical Sociology (Critical Sociology). Link to read it online, here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

We are hosting a virtual book launch for Spyros A. Sofos 's new book on mobilisation & populism in Turkey The online event will take place on 8 June 2023, 13:00– 14:00 BST The book will be discussed by Evren Balta 🫐 & Toygar Sinan Baykan For registration 👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/virtual-book…

PSA Turkish Politics is inviting you to its virtual book launch event in which Dr Spyros Sofos will present his new book Turkish Politics and ‘The People’ Mass Mobilisation and Populism. The event will take place on Zoom on June 8, 13:00 – 14:00 BST. psaturkishpolitics.uk/2023/05/03/vir…