Interpretive Approaches to Poverty, Participation, and Populism

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

How can we account for the global upsurge over the last several years in populist politics and political mobilization more broadly? Is economic grievance a sufficient explanation? Amidst this upsurge of protest, how can citizen participation in local governance be deepened and how can policy-makers respond to this rapidly changing political landscape? The papers on this panel consider these varied questions from varied cases - from the United States to Ecuador and India. Although varied in region, they are unified in taking an interpretive approach to understanding the relationship between economics, participation, protest, and policy, while not reducing political mobilization to a manifestation of economic grievance alone. In doing so, they expand how we can account for a rapidly changing global political landscape and the range of options available to citizens and policymakers in response.

Sub Unit

• Related Groups / Interpretive Methodologies and Methods

Individual Presentations

• Left-Populist Strategies in Trump Country - Biko Koenig, Franklin & Marshall College

• Participatory Approach in formative research projects - Daniela Margarita Orrantia, Universidad Casa Grande

• Deprioritizing Tahrir: Sectarianism, Fragmentation, and Political Defeat - Ahmed Khattab, Georgetown University

• Varieties of Bureaucracy: Implementing Primary Education in Rural India - Akshay Mangla, University of Oxford

Chair

• Rina Verma Williams University of Cincinnati

Discussant

• Quinlan Bowman University of Chicago