HEИндивидуална стипендия2023–2025

LPPQE · Living Populism: Polarization and Quotidian Experience

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2023-07-01 → 2025-06-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 188 174 €
Участници: 1
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Накратко на български

Ежедневният опит с несигурност при наемите в Мадрид се анализира, за да се разбере как той води до подкрепа за популистки идеи. Подобен подход помага за по-дълбоко разбиране на процесите, които превръщат обикновения живот в политически убеждения.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Living Populism: Polarization and Quotidian Experience

This research aims to provide fundamental knowledge regarding how everyday experiences of housing insecurity may foment populist political commitments. Despite the growing influence of populist movements globally, the phenomenon has garnered little attention in anthropology; the few anthropological accounts that do discuss populism in depth rarely do so through long-term socially embedded ethnography. More common are accounts that rely upon methodologies developed in political science, and rely upon analysis of populist leaders’ discourse. By eschewing anthropology’s hallmark methodology of ethnography, analysts fail to gather data on the lifeworlds of populists, and fail to grasp the broader processes of populist subjectivation and experience. Through ‘Living Populism: Polarisation and Quotidian Experience’ (LPPQE) I will move past the discursive reduction of populism to examine how populist commitments are made through everyday experience – in particular though looking to how tenants’ experiences of navigating housing conflicts in Madrid, Spain, lead to populist understandings of the political landscape. This research will have both academic and societal impacts. A more ethnographically grounded approach than has so far been taken by many theorists of populism, which explores the domestic lives of populist supporters will, I suggest, offer far deeper and more nuanced insights regarding the phenomenon. By adopting this methodology, I will help set the standard for how anthropologists study populism in the future. Even beyond the emerging anthropology of populism, anthropologists and other social scientists will increasingly have to account for populist politics due to the continuing political importance of the phenomenon. The results of this project will enrich anthropological research writ large. Much as neoliberalism has become a pervasive topic explored in a wide range of anthropological subfields, populism too will become an issue that many anthropologists will need to deal with, regardless of the theme that they are investigating.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

This project aims to offer a novel understanding of populism and its supporters. Through ethnographic research with left-wing populists in Spain, I will break with dominant academic approaches to populism, based largely in analysis of the discourse of party-elites. While Spain was once regarded as having resisted the rise of populist groups emerging in other Western European countries, since the 2008 financial crisis both left- and right-wing populist movements now command considerable support.In order to understand this boom in populist power, in this project I will explore the process and experience of populist subjectivation. Instead of treating ‘the people’ as a semiotic construct I will explore its purchase and functioning as a lived identity as I investigate the experience of being a populist subject. This will entail working closely with populist supporters in order to investigate the gendered subjectivities and domestic dynamics that exist in a co-constitutive relationship with illiberal political commitments. Among other results regarding populism’s domestic and gendered elements, this will add nuance to common-sense depictions of populism as inherently linked to an aggressive white masculinity.My focus on the everyday, lived elements of populist subjectivity will also involve a spatial analysis of populist politics. Drawing upon anthropological theories of place, I will analyse the spaces in which populist politics are made and are manifested. This will result in new information regarding how public spaces figure in populist mobilization and populist subjectivation. This project promises insights regarding the processes by which populist commitments are adopted by supporters, as well as critical information about populists’ subjectivities. These findings will be valuable in the nascent sub-field of the anthropology or populism, and will be of interest to the public and policy makers as they attempt to understand the global growth of populist politics.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES · Bruxelles / BrusselКоординаторБелгия