Abstract
Long seen as divergent in nature, the fields of populist studies and social movement analysis have rarely been the focus of cross-disciplinary research. This paper, by encouraging such convergence makes two significant contributions to both the study of populism and social movements. First, by combining a discourse theoretical approach to populism with social movement theories of abeyance and ‘cultural repertoires’, it examines populist discourse as a form of contentious politics. Second, using primary and secondary sources of both a textual and visual nature, it applies this framework to a case study of North Italian populist regionalism and in doing so takes a diachronic approach to populism. This allows for a clearer understanding of not only of the decline of certain populist movements, but also how these movements’ repertoires are transmitted between separate waves of activism.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 511-529 |
Journal | Social Movement Studies |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 24 May 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 31 Dec 2022 |
Funding
This article was first presented at a Politics Research Seminar at the University of Bath on 28 April 2020. I would like to thank the seminar convenor Jack Copley and my colleagues at this seminar for their helpful comments and feedback. Big thanks also go to Dr Aurelien Mondon, Professor Anna Cento Bull and the anonymous reviewers of this paper for their invaluable comments on earlier drafts.
Keywords
- abeyance
- contentious politics
- Populism
- regionalism
- repertoires of contention
- social movements
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- Sociology and Political Science