3P Discourse Theory and Popular IdentitiesSebastián Barros7 – 11 August

OUTLINE

1. IntroductionPresentation of course outline. Is there anything specific about populism? Defining the people: form and content. Reading the people: Gramsci and Luxemburg.

Seminar reading:Gramsci, A. "Some aspects of the southern question", in Antonio Gramsci

Selections From Political Writings (1921-1926), translated and edited by Quintin Hoare (Lawrence and Wishart, London 1978).

Luxemburg, R. The Russian Revolution (Workers Age Publishers, New York 1940)

2 / 3. The specificity of populismLaclau's populism. The notion of underdog and its problems. Hegemony, populism, democracy and politics. What's specific to populism?

Seminar reading:Laclau, E. "Populism. What’s in a Name?" in F. Panizza, Populism and the

Mirror of Democracy (Verso, London 2005) 4. Jacques Rancière and the peopleThe uncounted. Radical inclusion as the specificity of politics. The conflictive nature of the people. Politics and police.

Seminar reading:Rancière, J. Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy (University of Minnesota

Press, Minneapolis 1999) Ch. 1, 2 and 3.

5 / 6. Social heterogeneitySocial heterogeneity and populism. Popular identities and the irruption of heterogeneity.

Seminar reading:Laclau, E. On Populist Reason (Verso, London 2005) Ch. 5.Stallybrass, P. "Marx and Heterogeneity: Thinking the Lumpenproletariat" in

Representations 31. Summer 1991, pp. 69-95.Aboy Carlés, G. "La democratización beligerante del populismo", VII Congreso

Nacional de Ciencia Política, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político, Universidad Católica de Córdoba, 8-11 November 2005.

Arditi, B. "Populism as an internal periphery of democratic politics" in F. Panizza, Populism and the Mirror of Democracy (Verso, London 2005)

Barros, S. "The specificity of populism", VI Congreso Nacional de Ciencia Política, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, 5-8 November 2003.

7 / 8. Institutional and popular identitiesThe boundaries of politics. Analysis of institutional and popular discourses.

Seminar reading:Adorno, T. "On the Question - What is German?" New German Critique 36 (Fall

1985) 121-31.Locke, J. Second Treatise of Government, various editions. Ch. 1-5.Macpherson, C.B. The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (Oxford

University Press, London 1962) Ch. 5.Ortega y Gasset, J. La rebelión de las masas (Revista de Occidente, Madrid

1964) Ch. 1-8.Fanon, F. The Wretched of the Earth (Penguin Books, London 1990) Ch. 1.

9 / 10. Case studies

Seminar reading:

Groppo, A. "The Two Princes. Discourse Analysis and Comparative Populism: a study of the political emergence of Peronism in Argentina and Varguism in Brazil", VI Congreso Nacional de Ciencia Política, Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, 5-8 November 2003.

Reyes, O. "Skinhead conservatism: a failed populist project?" in F. Panizza, Populism and the Mirror of Democracy (Verso, London 2005)

Mouffe, Ch. "The 'end of politics' and the challenge of right-wing populism" in F. Panizza, Populism and the Mirror of Democracy (Verso, London 2005)

Howarth, D. "Populism or popular democracy? The UDF, Workerism and the struggle for radical democracy in South Africa" in F. Panizza, Populism and the Mirror of Democracy (Verso, London 2005)

Stavrakakis, Y. "Religion and populism in contemporary Greece" in F. Panizza, Populism and the Mirror of Democracy (Verso, London 2005)

Barros, S. "Ruptures and continuities in Kirchner's Argentina", XXVI International Congress Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 15-18 March 2006.

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