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034 - Section on Political Economy of the World-System. Populist Politics in the World-System

Sat, August 12, 8:30 to 10:10am, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 512C

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

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In a 2016 address to the United Nations, U.S. President Barack Obama expressed concern about the worrying rise of “crude populist” politics in both rich and poor countries. While the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit vote in the U.K. were routinely cited as notable manifestations of this trend, some observers have pointed to the strength of Bennie Sanders’ insurgent campaign for the Democratic nomination as an expression of leftist populism. Meanwhile, debate persists about the relationship between populism and myriad movements of an ethnonationalist and/or religious fundamentalist character. This session examines the wave of populist politics breaking across the world-system, with papers addressing the following questions: How do today’s populist politics differ in form, content and scope from those of the past? How do they relate to questions of hegemonic transition? What is the relationship between populist movements in different parts of the world-system? And are the prevailing conceptions of populism even adequate for understanding contemporary developments, or do they need to be reformulated?

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