{"id":658,"date":"2021-03-01T15:21:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.huams.hr\/?p=658"},"modified":"2021-03-01T15:21:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T14:21:42","slug":"cfp-tracing-populism-in-the-u-s-and-comparative-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.huams.hr\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Tracing Populism in the U.S. and Comparative Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAAS (Croatian Association for American Studies) announces a Call for Papers for its 9th annual workshop, Tracing Populism in the U.S. and Comparative Perspective. The 2021 workshop will be hosted by the University of Zadar and will take place in Zadar, Croatia, on September 25, 2021. This year’s key-note speaker is Liam Kennedy<\/a> (University College Dublin). The deadline for submission of abstracts is June 1, 2021.<\/p>\n

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The topic of this year\u2019s American Studies workshop is populism<\/em>. Currently easily the central term in political debates, populism is equally applied to opposite poles of the ideological spectrum. As a social phenomenon, it is perceived as a dangerous anomaly, a symptom of crisis of political legitimacy, especially of liberal democracies. In the last decade, it has been associated with people\u2019s mass, but misguided reactions to austerity policies and the general precarization that followed the 2008 economic crisis. The \u201cmigrant crisis\u201d in Europe and the global pandemic are said to further contribute to the populist trend. Populism thus presents us with a curious problem, namely, that the main threat to the present-day \u201crule of the people\u201d comes from \u201cthe people\u201d themselves. Populist mobilizations and populist politics \u2014 internationally present, but confined to national contexts \u2014 are therefore often qualified as \u201cauthoritarian\u201d or \u201cilliberal.\u201d The situation in the USA (the focus of our interest) both conforms to the above depiction and shows some distinctive features, since populism in the USA has a longer history, with roots in the complex late-19th c. agrarian and labor movements that called for a \u201cdemocracy of producers.\u201d To these political and historical perspectives, we would like to add a cultural one, and ask the following questions: What is at stake in discussions of populism? How do the common binaries involved in our understanding of populism hold up to closer scrutiny (e.g. \u201cthe people\u201d vs. \u201cthe elite\u201d)? Who are \u201cthe people\u201d and how are they represented? What does populism tell us about liberalism, capitalism, and democracy? What are the technologies of populist mobilization? What kinds of affect does populism imply or demand? What sorts of cultural codes and symbolic practices are operative in populist contexts?<\/p>\n

With these initial questions in mind, we invite contributions that would tackle any of the following problems (or add other relevant ones), both in the U.S.-American context and in comparative perspective:<\/p>\n

conceptualizing populism
\npopulism in historical perspective
\npopulism and crisis
\nconstructing \u201cthe people\u201d
\nliberalism and populism
\ndemocracy and populism
\npolitical economy of populism
\npopulism as political practice
\npopulism and capitalism
\nnativism, nationalism and populism
\npopulism and class
\npopulism and race\/ethnicity
\ngender of populism
\npopulism and austerity
\npopulist sentiments, populist affects
\npopulism in literature
\nperforming populism
\naesthetic populism
\npopulism and the media
\npopulism and the Internet
\npopulism and nostalgia
\npopulism and manipulation
\npopulism and (dis)information
\nfear of the masses
\n\u201cenemies\u201d of the people
\nrepresentation and authenticity
\nmoral economy of populism
\nconspiracy theories
\npopulism and identity politics<\/p>\n

Titles and abstracts of 15-minute presentations, accompanied by one-paragraph CV, should be sent to the workshop organizers by June 1, 2021, to all the following e-mails: Dr. Marko Luki\u0107 (mlukic@unizd.hr), Dr. Sven Cvek (scvek@ffzg.hr), and Dr. Jelena \u0160esni\u0107 (jsesnic@ffzg.hr). Notifications of acceptance will be sent by June 15, 2021.<\/p>\n

Due to public health emergency, we will plan for the following contingencies \u2014 that the workshop take place partly on site and partly on-line, or fully on-line. The final decision will be announced as the workshop date approaches. We will make every possible effort to accommodate our participants, both local and international.<\/p>\n

The workshop fee is 150 HRK (20 Euros). The fee is waived for the members in good standing of CAAS and of the AASSEE founding associations.<\/p>\n

A selection of presentations will be published in a peer-reviewed, open access publication Working Papers in American Studies (hosted by the FF Open Pres<\/a>s platform).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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