We, the Peoples: Populist Leadership, Neoliberalism and Decoloniality

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  • Lars Cornelissen

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Ernesto Laclau, populism, popular identification, decoloniality, neoliberalism, Perónism

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This article engages with the limits of Ernesto Laclau's theory of populism, focusing on the logic of popular identification. The central argument is that the Laclauian framework is incapable of accounting for recent forms of populism that articulate a decolonial mode of identification. More specifically, the article shows that for Laclau, leadership and exclusion are necessary components of popular identification, in which the identity of ‘the people' depends on the prior symbolic articulation of both an enemy and a leader. Although this theory of populism is well-positioned to explain how populist leadership functioned in several mid-century Latin American varieties of populism, it founders when faced with more recent forms of populist identification. Careful analysis of contemporary Ecuadorian and Bolivian populisms shows that these implicitly reject the Laclauian model of identification, articulating instead a decolonial model that advocates the plurality of identities and mobilises rich national histories of anti-colonial resistance.

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Lars Cornelissen

Radboud University Nijmegen (Holanda)

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Publicado

2019-10-17

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Cornelissen, L. (2019). We, the Peoples: Populist Leadership, Neoliberalism and Decoloniality. Araucaria, 21(42). Recuperado a partir de https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/araucaria/article/view/10804

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Monográfico II