Populismo, acción política y emociones. Líneas de intersección

• Autores: Paolo Cossarini
• Localización: Anales de la Cátedra Francisco Suárez, ISSN 0008-7750, Nº 53, 2019, págs. 79-95
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Populism, political action, and emotions. Converging lines
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  • español

    Esta investigación pregunta qué rol desempeña la dimensión emocional en el populismo. Adoptando una perspectiva multidisciplinar que une a los estudios contemporáneos sobre populismo con la literatura sobre movimientos sociales y el “giro afectivo”, este trabajo avanza la hipótesis de que para arrojar luz sobre este fenómeno hay que tomarse en serio las concretas manifestaciones emocionales propias de la vida política. Esta perspectiva abre horizontes interesantes para el debate sobre el valor normativo del populismo y su relación con la democracia liberal. Dependiendo de la declinación de los vectores emocionales, este nexo se inclina hacia un equilibrio positivo, donde discursos y prácticas populistas pueden corregir o fortalecer la democracia, o, por el contrario, hacia una relación negativa, y el populismo puede alterar los equilibrios democráticos y, en última instancia, desembocar en formas autoritarias

  • English

    This paper focuses on the role of emotions in populism. Drawing on a multidisciplinary perspective that links contemporary studies on populism with the recent scholarship on social movements and the “affective turn” in social sciences, this piece of research stresses concrete emotional manifestations as essential factors that the scholarship has to take into account in order to shed light on the populist phenomenon. This perspective opens up interesting horizons for the debate on the normative value of populism and its relationship with liberal democracy. It is argued that depending on the specific configuration of emotional vectors, this nexus might tend towards a positive equilibrium, one in which populist discourses and practices can be a corrective to democratic weaknesses, or on the contrary, towards a negative relationship, and therefore populism can dismantle democratic equilibrium and, ultimately, lead to authoritarian forms of politics.

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