I just wrote a piece for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social about Orbán's defeat by Peter Magyar. The piece argues that this was not a defeat of populism, as much commentary has it, but quite the opposite—a victory that was possible because of populism. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Viktor Orbán’s defeat was not a victory over populism but a populist victory

Péter Magyar's defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary was not a victory over populism, but an expression of its own form of democratic populism.

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Our new special issue is now published! "Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right" www.tandfonline.com/toc/csos20/3...

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Conceptual Flipsiding and Reversal of Liberal-Democratic Notions: Discursive-Political Strategies in the Normalization of Nationalism, Populism, Neoliberalism, and the Far Right. Volume 36, Issue 1 of Social Semiotics

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🔥 NEW ARTICLE ALERT 🔥 The five spatial political logics of populism: An analytical framework and research agenda for studying the populist politicisation of space from the local to the transnational in @bjpir.bsky.social with Benjamin de Cleen & Panos Panayotu journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The five spatial political logics of populism: An analytical framework and research agenda for studying the populist politicisation of space from the local to the transnational - Benjamin De Cleen, Be...

How does populism interact with space? While it is increasingly acknowledged that populism operates across geographical scales from the local to the transnation...

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⚡ Out now: Javnost-The Public special issue "The far-right and the politics of films, series and videogames", co-edited w @benjamindecleen.bsky.social, Omran Shroufi, Joke Bauwens & me. Full issue here www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjav20/3...

Very happy to see this nice collaboration with Juan get a prize from @polstudies.bsky.social !

Political Studies@polstudies.bsky.social · last yr.

Congrats to the winner of the Harrison Prize for the best article published in a 2024 issue of @polstudies.bsky.social: "Populism of the Privileged: On the Use of Underdog Identities by Comparatively Privileged Groups" by @benjamindecleen.bsky.social & Juan Alberto Ruiz Casado buff.ly/f98Hvph

Really happy www.researchcenterdesire.eu could team up with the Populism Specialist Group to co-host this workshop to rethink hegemony, populism & political strategy for the current moment.

Populism Specialist Group@populismpsa.bsky.social · 2y ago

1/ 📢 CALL FOR PAPERS Join us in Thessaloniki 🇬🇷 for our 9th Annual Workshop to rethink hegemony, populism & political strategy in today’s turbulent world. Keynotes: Judith Butler & Yannis Stavrakakis 🗓 2–3 Oct 2025 📝 Submit by 14 Mar 2025 More info: www.psapopulism.org/events/2025-...