De-staging the people: on the role of the social and populism beyond politics

0544513 - FLÚ 2022 RIV AU eng J - Journal Article
Feinberg, Joseph Grim
De-staging the people: on the role of the social and populism beyond politics.
Thesis Eleven. Roč. 164, č. 1 (2021), s. 104-119. ISSN 0725-5136
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA17-23955S
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : Laclau * Mouffe * populism * radical democratic theory * Ranciere * the return of the people
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1177/07255136211025772

This paper engages with radical democratic theory in light of the so-called “return of the people” taking place in contemporary political discourse. I argue that the return of the people should not be seen only as a return of politics strictly speaking, but also as a process by which elements of the social that had previously been excluded from politics enter the political sphere. Framing the problem in this way calls for a view to how politics is circumscribed, distinguished from the social but also, at various moments, broken open. At the same time, I call for paying increased attention to how the notion of the people takes shape beyond the political sphere, off the metaphorical political stage. By examining how the people is constructed in cultural and social movements, off the political stage, we can better understand the form taken by the people when it appears in politics.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0321535