[Commlist] New book: War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine

New book is now available:

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*War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine*(Routledge, 2023):

https://www.routledge.com/War-Peace-and-Populist-Discourse-in-Ukraine/Baysha/p/book/9781032455358 
<https://www.routledge.com/War-Peace-and-Populist-Discourse-in-Ukraine/Baysha/p/book/9781032455358>


By Olga Baysha


This book explores the detrimental effects on global peace of populism’s 
tendency to present complex social issues in simplistic "good versus 
evil" terms. Analyzing the civilizational discourse of Ukrainian 
President Volodymyr Zelensky with respect to the ongoing war between 
Russia and Ukraine—with his division of the world into "civilized us" 
versus "barbarian them"—the book argues that such a one-dimensional 
representation of complex social reality leaves no space for 
understanding the conflict and has little, if any, potential to bring 
about peace.


To deconstruct the "civilization versus barbarism" discourse propagated 
by Zelensky, the book incorporates into its analysis alternative 
articulations of the crisis by oppositional voices. The author looks at 
the writing of several popular Ukrainian journalists and bloggers who 
have been excluded from the field of political representation within 
Ukraine, where all oppositional media are currently banned. Drawing on 
the discourse theory of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, the author 
argues that the incorporation of alternative perspectives, and silenced 
voices, is vitally important for understanding the complexity of all 
international conflicts, including the current one between Russia and 
Ukraine.


This timely and important study will be relevant for all students and 
scholars of media and communication studies, populist rhetoric, 
political communication, journalism, area studies, international 
relations, linguistics, discourse analysis, propaganda, and peace studies.


*Table of contents*

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Introduction: Transnational Populism and Global Polarization


Part I: Populist Discourse of Civilization

1. From the Euromaidan to the Russia–Ukraine War: 2013–2022

2. Analyzing Populist Discourses: Contingency, Sedimentation, and Antagonism

3. Zelensky’s Transnational Populism: "Civilized Us" Versus "Barbaric Them"


Part II: Alternative Articulations of the Russia–Ukraine Conflict

4. Ukraine Under External Control

5. Authoritarian Populism in the Name of Democracy

6. The Deadlock of the Peace Treaty


Conclusion. A Road to Peace: Giving Voice to the Silenced


*About the author:*


Olga Baysha is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the 
National Research University "Higher School of Economics", Moscow, 
Russia. She earned her MS in Journalism from Colorado State University 
and PhD in Communication from the University of Colorado Boulder. 
Previously, she worked as a news reporter and editor in Kharkiv and 
Kyiv, Ukraine. She is the author of /The Mythologies of Capitalism and 
the End of the Soviet Project /(2014), /Miscommunicating Social Change: 
Lessons from Russia and Ukraine /(2018), and /Democracy, Populism, and 
Neoliberalism in Ukraine: On the Fringes of the Virtual and the Real 
/(2022).


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