Performing Left Populism

Goran Petrovic Lotina is Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK, and Lecturer at Sciences Po: The Paris Institute of Political Studies, France.Théo Aiolfi is a Marie Curie Cofund EUTOPIA Science and Innovation Fellow at CY Cergy Paris University, France.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Performance and Left PopulismGoran Petrovic Lotina (University of Warwick, UK, and Sciences Po: The Paris Institute of Political Studies, France) and Théo Aiolfi (University of Warwick, UK)I. Performance and Populism Theories1. The Stylistic Approach to Populism: From Early Definitions to Interdisciplinary Hybridization Théo Aiolfi (University of Warwick, UK)2. American Paranoia: Trump, Sanders, and Theoretical Reflections on Researching Populism as PerformanceReid Kleinberg (University of Essex, UK)II. Performance and Populist Leadership3. The Democratic Productivity of Populist Bodily RepresentationMaría Esperanza Casullo (National University of Río Negro, Argentina) 4. Performing the People: Discourses and Performances of Pablo Iglesias and Volodymyr ZelenskyAlina Mozolevska (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University in Mykolaiv, Ukraine and UniGR-Center for Border Studies, Saarland University, Germany)III. Performance, Populism and Artistic Practices5. The Last Peronist Spectacle: The Argentina Pavilion at the Expo 2015 World’s Fair David M. K. Sheinin (Trent University, Canada)6. Joyful Festivities: Happenings as a Populist Strategy in the Work of Alex MlynarcíkSam Cermák (Queen Mary University of London, UK)7. Left Populism and the Revival of Demos Through Performance: Four Tasks for Practicing DemocracyDanae Theodoridou (Performance maker and researcher, Fontys University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands)IV. Further Perspectives on Performance and Populism8. Populism and Populism Research. A Conversation with Yannis Stavrakakis Goran Petrovic Lotina (University of Warwick, UK, and Sciences Po: The Paris Institute of Political Studies, France) Index

Performing Left Populism will ignite lively debates concerning the role performance studies can play in political science scholarship and media analysis of current affairs. Situating performance—in the broadest sense of the word—as a vital practice of civic engagement undergoing a messy yet vibrant revival in reaction against the technocratic, neoliberal orthodoxy which has dominated western public discourse for over four decades, is its most significant contribution to cross-disciplinary political scholarship.