Performing Left Populism

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Performance and Left Populism Goran Petrovic Lotina (University of Warwick, UK, and Sciences Po: The Paris Institute of Political Studies, France) and Théo Aiolfi (University of Warwick, UK) I. Performance and Populism Theories 1. The Stylistic Approach to Populism: From Early Definitions to Interdisciplinary Hybridization Théo Aiolfi (University of Warwick, UK) 2. American Paranoia: Trump, Sanders, and Theoretical Reflections on Researching Populism as Performance Reid Kleinberg (University of Essex, UK) II. Performance and Populist Leadership 3. The Democratic Productivity of Populist Bodily Representation María Esperanza Casullo (National University of Río Negro, Argentina) 4. Performing the People: Discourses and Performances of Pablo Iglesias and Volodymyr Zelensky Alina Mozolevska (Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University in Mykolaiv, Ukraine and UniGR-Center for Border Studies, Saarland University, Germany) III. Performance, Populism and Artistic Practices 5. The Last Peronist Spectacle: The Argentina Pavilion at the Expo 2015 World’s Fair David M. K. Sheinin (Trent University, Canada) 6. Joyful Festivities: Happenings as a Populist Strategy in the Work of Alex Mlynarcík Sam Cermák (Queen Mary University of London, UK) 7. Left Populism and the Revival of Demos Through Performance: Four Tasks for Practicing Democracy Danae Theodoridou (Performance maker and researcher, Fontys University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands) IV. Further Perspectives on Performance and Populism 8. Populism and Populism Research. A Conversation with Yannis Stavrakakis Goran Petrovic Lotina (University of Warwick, UK, and Sciences Po: The Paris Institute of Political Studies, France) Index