Seven Essays on Populism. Paula Biglieri
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Название: Seven Essays on Populism

Автор: Paula Biglieri

Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited

Жанр: Афоризмы и цитаты

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isbn: 9781509542222

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СКАЧАТЬ do not intend to produce a knowledge that is merely particular, as if our double condition as women and as Latin American means that we can only speak to local and specific problems. Very much to the contrary, our commitment is to attempt to grasp what is universalizable – in the sense of a situated universalism – in the problems, challenges, and responses offered by a locus of enunciation like Latin America within the emancipatory production of knowledge in the Global South and Global North. We are convinced that epistemic decolonization also involves understanding that local problems demand global solutions through the construction of egalitarian academic spaces for debating transformative ideas.

      On the other hand, we should note that this book is also the result of a process of collective experience and organization. We could perhaps say that it has been weaving together ever since those initial investigations into populism that we each undertook alongside other researchers, leading to the publication of a groundbreaking book about Kirchnerist populism,4 a study of the relationship between populism and republicanism,5 and its incorporation into contemporary philosophical, political, and historical debates from different contexts.6 But, above all, we must mention that this militant project would not have been possible without the field of study opened up by Ernesto Laclau’s epistemic turn and later contributions by Chantal Mouffe and Jorge Alemán. Nor would it have been possible without the establishment of spaces such as the Ernesto Laclau Open Seminar at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), the various projects and open discussion spaces at FLACSO-Ecuador, and the Theorising Transnational Populist Politics project funded by the British Academy.7