Møde: Venstrepopulisme fra økonomisk krise til pandemi

TransformDanmark afholder offentligt møde om venstrepopulisme gennem de seneste ti år – fra økonomisk krise til Pandemi.
Mødet foregår på Zoom torsdag d. 20. maj kl. 19.00

I panelet sidder Marina Prentoulis, Erick Palomares, Center for latinamerikanske studier KU, og Oscar Garcia Augustin, Aalborg universitet.

Mødet foregår på engelsk.

Left-Populism: from the economic crisis to the pandemic

A few years after the economic crisis in 2008, social movements rejected the politics of austerity and claimed that politicians did not represent them. Political parties from the left such as Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain to La France Insoumise and Corbynism within the Labour Party in UK challenged the politics of the establishment to channel people’s discontent. These parties which were labelled as left populist had different trajectories and now in times of the pandemic, it seems relevant to ask what happened with them and how relevant it is still to talk about left populism as well as its contribution to the formation of a larger left project.

Participants:

Marina Prentoulis, University of East Anglia, author of Left Populism in Europe: Lessons from Jeremy Corbyn to Podemos (Pluto Press, 2021).

Erick Gonzalo Palomares, Guest Researcher, Center for Latin American Studies CLAS (University of Copenhagen) and Associate Researcher at Transformative Cities and Atlas of Utopias (Transnational Institute, TNI).

Óscar García Agustín, Aalborg University, author of Left-Wing Populism. The Politics of the People (Emerald, 2020).

Moderator:

Paolo Cossarini, Aalborg University, co-editor of Populism and Passions. Democratic Legitimacy after Austerity (Routledge, 2019).

Sign up for the meeting here: https://aaudk.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Ild-CoqzkrHNMJrMfqCENBkIkgZrPe17tM