Populism and the Social Sciences
Online Colloquium: 26-27 November 2020
Online Colloquium: 26-27 November 2020
Organized by the University of Québec in Montréal and the University of Ottawa
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Frédérick Guillaume Dufour (UQÀM), Efe Peker (uOttawa), Djamila Mones (UQÀM)
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Day 1 – 26 November
Panel 1: Populism in the 21st Century -- 9-10:30 a.m.
- Frédérick-Guillaume Dufour (UQÀM): Une critique sociohistorique de la dynamique démocratisation, dédémocratisation et populismes chez Cas Mudde
- Elke Winter (uOttawa): “Ordinary People” in the Populism Literature: Attempting a Classification
- Daniel Stockemer (uOttawa): The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Failed Crisis Management of Populists in Power
Panel 2: Theories of Populism -- 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
- Stéphane Vibert (uOttawa): Le populisme comme pilier démocratique: les formes du “peuple”
- Djamila Mones (UQÀM): Le populisme comme reconstruction de l’imaginaire politique : proposition de clarification conceptuelle
- Olivier Bélanger-Duchesneau (uOttawa): “Construire un peuple” : prolégomènes d’une critique onto-épistémologique du populisme de gauche
- Commentatrice / Discussant: Stéphanie Pâche (UQÀM)
Panel 3: Populism in the Americas -- 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
- Regina Bateson (uOttawa): Voting for a Killer: Populism, Party Dynamics, and Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt’s Return to Politics in Democratic Guatemala
- Victor Armony (UQÀM): Socio-histoire du populisme en Amérique latine
- Denise Helly (INRS): Culture et religion dans l’univers du Christian Heritage party
- Commentateur / Discussant: Antoine Mazot-Oudin (UdeM)
Panel 4: Populism à la française -- 2:45 - 4:15 p.m.
- Olivier Sasseville (UQÀM): D’Ordre nouveau au Front national : La construction d’un national-populisme français
- Éloïse Le Bihan (UQÀM): Populisme et sécurite en France
- Antoine Mazot-Oudin (UdeM): Un populisme sans frontières ? Représentations politiques et sociales en milieu populaire en France et au Québec
- Commentatrice / Discussant: Emily Laxer (York University)
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Day 2 - 27 November
Panel 5: Québécois Populism -- 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
- Emily Laxer (York University): “Rights” or “Values”? Populist Framing of the Rule of Law in Debates over Québec’s “Values Test”
- François Tanguay (UQÀM): Les théories des droites radicales et populistes permettent-elles d’expliquer les dynamiques nativistes au Québec ?
- Olivier Audet (UQÀM): De quelle coalition d'acteurs la catho-laïcité est-elle le nom dans le champ politique québécois ?
- Commentateur / Discussant: Frédéric Parent (UQÀM)
Panel 6: Modi & Erdoğan -- 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
- Axel Gehring & Ezgi Pinar (Philipps-Universität Marburg): Authoritarian Populism, the AKP, and the Universities in Turkey
- Rohan (Maitreyi College, University of Delhi): Good Muslim and Militant Hindu: The Sociology of Right-Wing Populism in India
- Kumari Santoshi (Lakshmi Bai College, University Of Delhi): Your Ram vs. My Ram: The Politics of Hindutva and Religious Populism in India
- Commentateur / Discussant : Efe Peker (uOttawa)
Panel 7: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Populism -- 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
- Mathieu Lizotte (uOttawa): Réflexions sur les explications psychologiques du populisme
- Efe Peker (uOttawa) & Emily Laxer (York University): Populism and Religion Beyond the West: Towards a Comparative Agenda
- Hasan Faruk Uslu (Atatürk University): On the Hegemony of Political Science in the Contemporary Populism Literature
- Commentatrice / Discussant: Djamila Mones (UQÀM)
Panel 8: Populism in North America -- 2:45-4:15 p.m.
- Elke Winter (uOttawa), Anke Patzelt (uOttawa), Verena Schmid (Universitaet Heidelberg): Citizenship as Claims-making in Germany and Canada: How local Willkommenskultur avoids populist polarization
- Chad Goldberg (University of Wisconsin–Madison): Right-wing Populism as Vicarious Domination: The Case of Wisconsin
- Jan Doering (McGill) & Efe Peker (uOttawa): Reactive and Diminished Ethnicity: The Effects of Secularist Legislative Actions in Québec on Muslim Identity Expression
- Commentateur / Discussant : Frédéric Mérand (UdeM)