Event overview
Paula Chakravartty, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, Department of Media, Culture and Communication and the Gallatin School, New York University
Disaggregating the idea of a singular media logic of populist politics to explain the world through Trump and Brexit, we examine the institutional and political-economic dynamics of mediatization and the variegated structures of media-political fields in which contemporary populist political formations are embedded. Moving away from broad “global populism” approaches as well as case-studies from Europe and the Americas that have thus far dominated discussions of populism, we make the case for empirically grounded comparative studies of populism from the particular standpoint of regional contexts in Asia, the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region and Latin America, to offer theoretical insights often missed in prevailing “technology first” and Sciences, University of Göttingen, Germany).
Chair: Natalie Fenton, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths.
Mediatized Populisms: The Global South as Method
Disaggregating the idea of a singular media logic of populist politics to explain the world through Trump and Brexit, we examine the institutional and political-economic dynamics of mediatization and the variegated structures of media-political fields in which contemporary populist political formations are embedded. Moving away from broad “global populism” approaches as well as case-studies from Europe and the Americas that have thus far dominated discussions of populism, we make the case for empirically grounded comparative studies of populism from the particular standpoint of regional contexts in Asia, the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region and Latin America, to offer theoretical insights often missed in prevailing “technology first” and election-focused approaches.
Paula Chakravartty, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, Department of Media, Culture and Communication and the Gallatin School, New York University (in collaboration with Professor Sirupa Roy, Centre for Modern Indian Studies and Institute of Political Sciences, University of Göttingen, Germany).
Chair: Natalie Fenton, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths.
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25 Jan 2018 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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