Populism & Ideologies in Times of Crisis
3-4 (Thursday-Friday) June 2021
Online: Via ZOOM
Time: 10:00am-1pm (CET)
The world is currently undergoing a profound political, economic, health, and environmental crisis. The ‘crisis’ resembles the zeitgeist, a reminder of the uncertainty and volatility about the future of the world that we live in. The disruptive power of crisis allows for a fundamental reconfiguration of the concepts and mind maps which orientate our views of the world.
Not only have the manifold crises disrupted liberal democracy globally and undermined its credibility but have also urged us to rethink political ideologies in times of a continuous lack of political imagination.
The Mini Conference: Populism and Ideologies in Times of Crisis, organized jointly by both the Populism (PRU) and Ideology (IRU) Research Units at The Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR) seeks to address some of these key issues in global politics.
We welcome Abstract proposals (150 words maximum) from CARR colleagues addressing the diverse fields relating to “Populism, Ideologies, Extremism, Liberal Democratic Governance and Crises. The authors can, amongst others, address the following subjects:
• The impact of crisis on conceptualizing Populism as an ideology
• Populism in specific policy domains under Crisis
• Comparative Populism and Ideology studies
• Populism and Expertise
• Populism/Radical Right and the Pandemic
• The Radical Right and the Constitutional Crisis
• Ideology of the Global Radical Right
• The Radical Right and the Crisis of “the Civilizing Process”
• The Global Radical Right and Global Health
• Discourse and Crisis
• Mainstreaming and Normalizing Populism
• The Crisis and Conservatism
• Odd ideological bedfellows & Coalitions in times of Crisis
Please submit your Abstract Proposals via e-mail to both Balša Lubarda
(Lubarda_Balsa@phd.ceu.edu) and James F. Downes (jamesfdownes@cuhk.edu.hk) by
Friday April 30th, 2021.
