Popular Biopolitics and Populism at Europe’s Eastern Margins

Andrey Makarychev (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2022
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-50779-1 (ISBN)

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This book innovatively explains the phenomenon of populism from a biopolitical perspective and introduces the concept of popular biopolitics tested on three case studies: Estonia, Ukraine and Russia.

In this groundbreaking book, Andrey Makarychev approaches populism through a critical biopolitical lens and shows that populist narratives are grounded intrinsically in corporeality, sexuality, health, bodily life and religious practices. The author demonstrates that populism is a phenomenon deeply rooted in mass culture. He compares three countries -- Estonia, Ukraine and Russia--that all share post-Soviet experiences offering a broad spectrum of populist discourses. The three case studies display the interconnection between biopower and populism through references to culture, media, art, theatrical performances and literature, raising new questions and directions for understanding traditional accounts of populism.

This work was supported by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 822682: "Populist rebellion against modernity in 21st-century Eastern Europe: neo-traditionalism and neo-feudalism – POPREBEL".

Andrey Makarychev, Ph.D. (1999, Nizhny Novgorod State University, Russia), is Professor of Regional Political Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He has published monographs and articles on populism and biopolitics, including Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet: From Populations to Nations (Lexington Books, 2020, co-authored with Alexandra Yatsyk).

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Biopolitics in Search for a Hegemony

1 Popular Biopolitics: A Theoretical Outline

1.1 Biopolitics: A Short Introduction

1.2 Performativity and Popular Biopolitics

1.3 Popular Biopolitics and/of Populism

1.4 Liberalism and Its Disavowal: A Biopolitical Reading

1.5 Bare Lives between Biopolitics and Ideology

1.6 The Regional Focus of the Book

1.7 Methodological Note

2 Estonia: Bare Life between Geo- and Biopolitics

2.1 The Popular Biopolitics of Bare Life: Two Dominant Discourses

2.2 Biopolitical Dislocations

2.3 Contemporary Reverberations: The Reactualization of the Biopolitical Contexts

3 The Screen and the Street: Two Face(t)s of Ukrainian Popular Biopolitics

3.1 From Comedian to President: A Cultural Genealogy of the New(est) Ukrainian Populism

3.2 The Geo-/Biopolitical Construction of Sovereignty in Insecure Times

4 Pastorate and “Somatic Sovereignty” in Russian Popular Biopolitics

4.1 Night Wolves’ Performative Imperialism

4.2 Iben Thranholm’s Biopolitical Interfaces

4.3 The Popular Biopolitics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russian Hegemonic Populism

4.4 Russian Illiberal Populism: An Afterword

Populations, Popular Biopolitics, Populism: Concluding Thoughts

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Global Populisms ; 2
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	495 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	90-04-50779-5 / 9004507795
ISBN-13	978-90-04-50779-1 / 9789004507791
Zustand	Neuware