The potentials and difficulties of transnational populism : The case of the democracy in Europe movement 2025 (DiEM25)
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De Cleen, Benjamin, Moffitt, Benjamin, Panayotu, Panos and Stavrakakis, Yannis. (2020). The potentials and difficulties of transnational populism : The case of the democracy in Europe movement 2025 (DiEM25). Political Studies. 68(1), pp. 146-166. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321719847576
Authors | De Cleen, Benjamin, Moffitt, Benjamin, Panayotu, Panos and Stavrakakis, Yannis |
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Abstract | The Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), launched by former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, seeks to construct a transnational left political project to ‘democratise Europe’. Its construction of a European ‘people’ against an international elite raises questions about the potentials of populism beyond the nation-state. Building on a discourse-theoretical distinction between populism and nationalism, the article asks whether DiEM25 is a truly transnational populist movement. Through an analysis of the movement’s manifestoes, speeches, press releases and published interviews with DiEM25 leaders, the article shows how DiEM25 constructs a ‘European people’ in opposition to an international ‘elite’, how DiEM25 oscillates between speaking for national ‘peoples’ and a transnational ‘people’, and how it negotiates its populism, nationalism and transnationalism. The article contributes to the theorisation of populism beyond the usually assumed nation-state level and shines a light on the potentials and limitations of transnational populism as an as-yet understudied political development. |
Keywords | populism; transnational populism; nationalism; democracy; European Union |
Year | 2020 |
Journal | Political Studies |
Journal citation | 68 (1), pp. 146-166 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
ISSN | 1467-9248 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321719847576 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85066863261 |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 146-166 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 10 May 2019 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 16 Dec 2021 |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8x357/the-potentials-and-difficulties-of-transnational-populism-the-case-of-the-democracy-in-europe-movement-2025-diem25
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