1st Edition
Theory and Praxis of Left Populism A Comparative Analysis of Podemos and La France insoumise
Introduction
Part 1
1. Epistemological disagreements and political interests behind the definition of the concept of populism in social sciences
2. Decline and transformation of the radical left in Spain and in France: understanding the emergence and evolution of a left-wing populist offer
3. ‘Now the people’: origins and evolutions of a left-wing populist offer in Spain and in France
4. Strategic and theoretical uses of the populist theory by Podemos and La France insoumise
Part 2
5. Mobilising a populist discourse: building the people against the elite and in relation to democracy, the homeland and the crisis
6. Divisions, factionalisation, split: the internal debates around populism
Part 3
7. Activists’ reception and mobilisation of the populist discourse
8. Activists’ reception and mobilisation of the populist theory
9. Mapping populist activism: typology and transnational circulations between Spain and France
Conclusion
Appendix 1
Biography
Laura Chazel is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Sciences Po Grenoble, Pacte (Grenoble), and earlier was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the École des Hautes Études Hispaniques et Ibériques (EHEHI), Casa de Velázquez (Madrid), during the 2023–2024 academic year.
