Internationales Netzwerk für Populismusforschung

über das netzwerk

Das Internationale Netzwerk für Populismusforschung ist am Arbeitsbereich Politische Theorie, Ideengeschichte und Politische Kultur der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU Kiel) angesiedelt. Es bietet eine Plattform für den internationalen Austausch und die Initiierung von Publikations- und Forschungsprojekten zum Thema Populismus.

Inhaltlich widmet sich das Internationale Netzwerk für Populismusforschung neuen theoretischen, qualitativen und quantitativen Ansätzen, um das Phänomen des Populismus weltweit zu untersuchen.

Über die Politikwissenschaft hinaus öffnet sich das Netzwerk für weitere Disziplinen aus den Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften wie die Soziologie, Philosophie, Kultur-, Medien- und Literaturwissenschaften, Ethnologie, Visual Studies, Performance Studies, Rechts- und Geschichtswissenschaften.

Das Internationale Netzwerk für Populismusforschung organisiert wissenschaftliche Veranstaltungen (in Präsenz und Online) an der CAU und in Kooperation mit Partnerinstitutionen. Dazu gehören wissenschaftliche Konferenzen, Workshops und Panels bei nationalen und internationalen Fachtagungen, internationale Kooperationen in der Lehre sowie Veranstaltungen für eine breitere Öffentlichkeit.

Das Internationale Netzwerk für Populismusforschung führt eigene Forschungsprojekte durch und unterstützt Promotions- und Post-Doc-Projekte.

Das Netzwerk erarbeitet seine Forschungsergebnisse in Form von wissenschaftlichen Publikationen und macht die zentralen Arbeiten der Partner*innen sichtbar.

Das Internationale Netzwerk für Populismusforschung engagiert sich auch in der Kommunikation mit einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit.

ZDF Info – Sendehinweis

Volksversteher - Die Tricks der Populisten

Datum: 4 März

Uhrzeit: 6:45 Uhr – 7:30 Uhr

Sender: ZDFinfo

Rountables, Seminars and Classes

6th Erasmus+ International Week

Date: 31 March – 4 April

Location: School of Political Sciences “Cesare Alfieri”, University of Florence

The 6th Erasmus+ International Week will take place at the University of Florence between 31 March and 4 April 2025. The Erasmus+ International Week offers a wide range of roundtables, seminars and classes. This includes a seminar on „Populism, Democracy and Authoritarianism – National and International Developments“ with Giorgia Bulli (University of Florence), Marco Tarchi (University of Florence), Oscar Mazzoleni (University of Lausanne), Lorenzo Viviani (University of Pisa), Andrea Bussoletti (University of Guadalajara) and Paula Diehl (Kiel University).

Round Table

Convergences and singularities of Populism, Democratic Backsliding and Resilience in Europe and Beyond

Date: 20 February 2025

Time: 2pm

Location: University of Coimbra, Centre for Social Studies (Alta), Room 1

Organizer: UNPOP project – UNpacking POPulism: Comparing the formation of emotion narratives and their effects on political behaviour

The Round Table brings together scholars from different European countries. The debate will consider how democratic institutions can better respond to the populist upsurge and how the democratic imagination can be strengthened through civic engagement and political innovation.

Participants:

Bilge Yabanci, University of Deusto (Pais Basco)

Camil Ungureanu, Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain)

Cristiano Gianolla, CES, University of Coimbra (Portugal)

Emilia Palonen, University of Helsinki (Finland)

Giorgia Bulli, University of Florence (Italy)

Marjoke Oosterom, Institute of Development Studies (Brighton, Uk)

Paula Diehl, University of Kiel (Germany)

Workshop

Continuity and Innovation of the Far Right: Practices, Symbols and Discourses

Date: 16 and 17 January 2025

Location: Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Mittelweg 36, 20148 Hamburg

Organizers:

Hamburg Institute for Social Research

Political Theory, History of Ideas and Political Culture Section at Kiel University

International Populism Research Network at Kiel University

The process of mainstreaming and normalizing far-right politics has a longer history that goes back at least to the emergence of the new right in the 1960s and 1970s. Over the past years, however, the strategic and discursive repertoire of the far right has undergone significant changes that need to be considered in order to make sense of its current rise to power. This workshop is dedicated to this relationship between continuity and innovation. Bringing together international scholars from a wide range of disciplines, it puts a particular emphasis on historical, transnational and intersectional research perspectives.

Spiegel Interview

"Populismus ist wie der betrunkene Gast einer Abendgesellschaft"

USA, Italien, Österreich – rechtspopulistische Parteien sind weltweit auf dem Vormarsch. Die Experten Paula Diehl und Ralf Grabuschnig erklären, wann etablierte Parteien im Kampf gegen den Populismus den Kürzeren ziehen. Ein Interview von Martin Pfaffenzeller und Frank Thadeusz.

Das Interview erscheint in der aktuellen Ausgabe von Spiegel Geschichte. Es kann auch online unter dem folgenden Link gelesen werden.

New Book by Théo Aiolfi

The Populist Style: Trump, Le Pen and Performances of the Far Right

Through a comparative case study analysing the 2016 and 2017 presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen, The Populist Style examines the links between far-right ideology and populism. Adopting an interdisciplinary framework combining political science and performance studies, this book develops a critical definition of populism as a style, that is, as a repertoire of political performances that shapes and is given shape by ideological content.

The book was published in January 2025 by Edinburgh University Press. For more information on the book (including access and purchase options), click here.

New Book by Christoffer Kølvraa and Bernhard Forchtner

Imagining Alternative Worlds: Far-Right Fiction and the Power of Cultural Imaginaries

The book explores how the far right employs fictionality as a powerful political tool in the 21st century. It does so by examining the far right’s own cultural production and commentary through a large collection of its novels, novellas, short stories, and film reviews, illustrating how the ‘alternative worlds’ articulated in such cultural products convey its ideology. More specifically, the book identifies and analyses four distinct far-right cultural imaginaries – a ‘primordial’, a ‘nostalgic’, a ‘promethean’, and a ‘nihilist’ one – that each subtly conveys different yet linked ideas about space, time, ‘race’, gender, and heroic identity.

By drawing attention to the cultural heterogeneity of the contemporary far right, Imagining Alternative Worlds offers key insights into the dreams, identities, and norms such actors hope will define our future.

The book was published on 11 November 2024 by Routledge. More information on the book (including access and purchase options) can be found here.

New publication of Paula Diehl and BRIGITTE BARGETZ (eds.)

The Complexity of Populism – New Approaches and Methods

Much as populism has been researched, it remains a contested notion without coherent definition and methodology, and shaped by dimensions such as ideology, communication style, discourse, mobilization, and organization. It has simultaneously mobilized emotions, produced symbols, and affected subjectivity and gender relations and can manifest itself in different ways and appear in hybrid forms, such as in the cases of Silvio Berlusconi, Hugo Chávez, and Donald Trump.

With chapters by Paula Diehl, Carlos de la Torre, Birgit Sauer, Brigitte Bargetz, Stefan Bird-Pollan, Federico Finchelstein, Giorgia Bulli, Martin Reisigl, Mojca Pajnik, Till Weber.

The book was published on July 3, 2023 and can be ordered here.

Open Access: Mojca Pajnik: Transformations of the Media Sphere. Amplifying Opportunity Structures for Populism

Open access Article

Emotion Narratives on the Political Culture of Radical Right Populist Parties in Portugal and Italy

„Emotion Narratives on the Political Culture of Radical Right Populist Parties in Portugal and Italy“. In: Politics and Governance, 2024, Vol. 12.

Authors: Gianolla, C., Mónico, L., & Cruz, M.

Issue: Vol 12 (2024): Challenging Democracy: How Do Ideas of Populists and Disenchanted Citizens Align? (In Progress)

Le Point J – Podcast

C’est quoi le populisme ?

Donald Trump, der kürzlich gewählte US-Präsident, wird oft als Populist bezeichnet. Genauso wie Viktor Orban, Giorgia Meloni, Marine Le Pen oder Jair Bolsonaro… Aber was genau ist Populismus? Paula Diehl, Professorin an der Universität Kiel, klärt uns bei Le Point J auf.

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