[ecrea] Pre-conference call - Populism after Trump

Expressions of interest are invited for the following:

IAMCR Pre-conference, Cartagena, 15th July 2017

Populism after Trump.

The election of Donald Trump as a figure of anti-establishment ideology 
has posed what Arlie Hochschild, identifies in her study of Tea Party 
adherents, Strangers in their own Land, the great paradox – how do 
people who have the least to gain from neoliberal de-regulation of big 
business and the cutting back of welfare and environmental protection 
articulate and rationalize their support for the Trump Presidency? As a 
communicative strategy, Trumpism represents a new form (or at least, a 
hitherto submerged form) of populism, which challenges, for example, 
Ernesto Laclau’s theorization of the fundamental link between populism 
and the empty signifier. Trumpism, by contrast works through an 
emotionally replete, if conceptually incoherent, representation of a 
will to power from below.

The focus of this pre-conference symposium will be to map the various 
features of Trumpism as an ideological strategy that constructs a 
popular discourse based on feelings rather than rational argument and 
against the constraints of truth, the exercise of a will to emotional truth.

Contributions are invited for a series of panels that discuss the 
relationship of Trumpism to the theorization of populism, both within 
and outside the USA, and the role of the mainstream and social media in 
sustaining what Baudrillard termed the ecstasy of communication.

Abstracts (300 words) that focus on the following areas, are especially 
invited, but other contributions will be considered:

Trumpism as a rhetorical strategy

Post-democracy and Post-populism

Celebrity, Reality Television and the Trump persona

Trumpism as an economic boon to media and social media

Trump from the perspective of the “Other” – International responses

Trump and Satire e.g. Little Trump meme, SNL.

Trumpism as Proto-Fascism.

Trump, racism and sexism

Abstracts of 300 words to be received by April 15^th 2017.

Contact: Barry King Popular Culture Working Group.
(Barry.king /at/ aut.ac.nz)
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