Arthur Borriello
Biographic Data
| ID | 3731751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur Borriello |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur |
| FAMILY NAME | Borriello |
| SIGNATURE | BORRIELLO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1354-6419 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Populism and democracy
Populism comes in so many forms, both historically and in its contemporary manifestations, that we cannot assess its relationship with democratic institutions as if it were homogeneous. In this article, we reconnect with the history of the first movements that have called themselves populists and draw on an understanding of populism as an egalitarian impulse against oligarchic tendencies, centred on anti-elitism and the defense of a democratic co…
Endiguer la vague. Les ressorts du discours anti-populiste dans le journal Le Monde (2016-2017)
Cet article fait l’analyse d’un corpus comprenant l’intégralité des articles du journal Le Monde consacrés au populisme en 2016-2017. Il s’inscrit dans la littérature s’intéressant à la « populologie », cet ensemble de discours académiques, politiques et médiatiques qui prennent le populisme comme objet. Combinant la textométrie et l’étude des métaphores, il montre comment les modes de désignation et de représentation péjoratifs dont le populisme…
The antinomies of Ernesto Laclau
This article provides an internal assessment of Ernesto Laclau’s theory of populism. While critiques of Laclau have been made from a variety of traditions, few scholars have sought to work through the contradictions of his thought on internal terms. This article identifies some key antinomies in Laclau’s oeuvre and hints at some redemptive strategies. It starts with a short summary of Laclau’s conception of populism in contextual and conceptual f…
The normalization of left populism? The paradigmatic case of Podemos
After a hopeful electoral debut, left populism in Europe has undergone relative normalization. While the literature on new parties might regard the persistence of left populist forces as a success, we deem instead that such an outcome should be considered against the backdrop of the initial left populist hypothesis. Based on a discussion of the existing literature and ten semi-structured interviews with party members, this paper analyses the case…
Politics as construction of the unthinkable
This article is the English translation of a text originally published by Ernesto Laclau in French in 1981 as part of the proceedings of the colloquium Materialités Discursives held in Nanterre on 24–26 April 1980. In this text, Ernesto Laclau reflects on the subject of hegemony as a discursively constructed phenomenon. Building on research on the discursive construction of the acceptability of popular front politics in 1935 during the Seventh Co…
Left-Populism on Trial
This paper offers a critical assessment of ErnestoLaclau’s theory of populism in light of recent populist politics.Following the 2008 crisis and its fallout, Laclau’s writings haveenjoyed both practical and theoretical prominence, inspiringmovements from Podemos to La France insoumise and an energeticsection of discourse theory. Recent events, however, seemto testify to the exhaustion of his populist imaginary. Examplesinclude Podemos’ internal t…
La révolte de ceux du « bas
Sur la base du péronisme en Argentine, on peut comprendre le populisme comme une révolte du bas, selon un clivage socioculturel. Le populisme est ainsi un discours vulgaire, nativiste, avec une tendance à la personnalisation
Le populisme au pouvoir
Le populisme au pouvoir en Italie attaque les fondements de la démocratie en opposant le peuple juste à ceux qui n'en font pas partie. Mais la démocratie peut se renouveler
Le peuple et les experts
L'essor du populisme et de la technocratie peut se comprendre dans le contexte d'un déclin des représentations partisanes. Désormais, notamment du fait de l'intégration européenne, les mouvements politiques font référence à des abstractions, sans base sociale concrète
I want my sovereignty back!’ A comparative analysis of the populist discourses of Podemos, the 5 Star Movement, the FN and Ukip during the economic and migration crises
The multiple crises that the EU has faced over the last decade have provided fertile ground for the emergence of new political movements, often labelled as ‘anti-system’, ‘populist’ and ‘Eurosceptics’. One defining characteristic of these parties is their claim to represent ‘the people’ and their reliance on the idea of sovereignty. This article aims at examining how these populist parties have framed sovereignty in relation to the economic and m…
Les métaphores de l’austérité. Abolition et préservation de l’autonomie du champ politique dans les discours de crise en Italie et en Espagne
Cet article compare les discours de légitimation des plans d’austérité de trois chefs d’exécutif (Mario Monti, José Luis Zapatero et Mariano Rajoy) durant la crise de la zone euro. À travers une analyse des métaphores, il cherche à montrer la tension inhérente à ce discours qui, d’une part, consacre l’autonomie de la sphère économique et sa prééminence sur la sphère politique et, d’autre part, doit se plier aux exigences symboliques de la fonctio…
There is no alternative’
The Eurozone crisis and the remarkable convergence of national governments towards austerity policies draw scholars’ attention to the discursive strategies that they have used in order to legitimate their economic decisions. This article studies the common features of austerity discourse beyond national and partisan boundaries. It relies on an in-depth analysis combining lexicography and the study of metaphors in speeches of the Italian and Spani…
How to not speak the ‘ F ‐word
The recent financial and debt crisis has resuscitated the debate about E uropean federalism – a theme that seemed not to have survived the painful constitutional adventure that ended with the ratification of the L isbon T reaty in 2009. With the adoption of significant policy and institutional measures for tightening macroeconomic and budgetary coordination (including a constitutionally enshrined debt brake), the reforms of the monetary union hav…
L'abolition symbolique du politique, de nécessité vertu
La récente crise de la dette dans la zone euro a conduit à des plans d’austérité présentant une série de caractéristiques communes. Au-delà des débats sur l’efficacité et les conséquences politiques de ces mesures, cet article cherche à comprendre le discours spécifique qui l’accompagne. Le contexte de crise est considéré comme un moment d’exacerbation d’un discours dominant dépolitisé. L’article pose comme hypothèse que les stratégies discursive…
Party members in a pillarised partitocracy. An empirical overview of party membership figures and profiles in Belgium
There is no alternative’
The Eurozone crisis and the remarkable convergence of national governments towards austerity policies draw scholars’ attention to the discursive strategies that they have used in order to legitimate their economic decisions. This article studies the common features of austerity discourse beyond national and partisan boundaries. It relies on an in-depth analysis combining lexicography and the study of metaphors in speeches of the Italian and Spani…
I want my sovereignty back!’ A comparative analysis of the populist discourses of Podemos, the 5 Star Movement, the FN and Ukip during the economic and migration crises
The multiple crises that the EU has faced over the last decade have provided fertile ground for the emergence of new political movements, often labelled as ‘anti-system’, ‘populist’ and ‘Eurosceptics’. One defining characteristic of these parties is their claim to represent ‘the people’ and their reliance on the idea of sovereignty. This article aims at examining how these populist parties have framed sovereignty in relation to the economic and m…
The antinomies of Ernesto Laclau
This article provides an internal assessment of Ernesto Laclau’s theory of populism. While critiques of Laclau have been made from a variety of traditions, few scholars have sought to work through the contradictions of his thought on internal terms. This article identifies some key antinomies in Laclau’s oeuvre and hints at some redemptive strategies. It starts with a short summary of Laclau’s conception of populism in contextual and conceptual f…
Party members in a pillarised partitocracy. An empirical overview of party membership figures and profiles in Belgium
The normalization of left populism? The paradigmatic case of Podemos
After a hopeful electoral debut, left populism in Europe has undergone relative normalization. While the literature on new parties might regard the persistence of left populist forces as a success, we deem instead that such an outcome should be considered against the backdrop of the initial left populist hypothesis. Based on a discussion of the existing literature and ten semi-structured interviews with party members, this paper analyses the case…
How to not speak the ‘ F ‐word
The recent financial and debt crisis has resuscitated the debate about E uropean federalism – a theme that seemed not to have survived the painful constitutional adventure that ended with the ratification of the L isbon T reaty in 2009. With the adoption of significant policy and institutional measures for tightening macroeconomic and budgetary coordination (including a constitutionally enshrined debt brake), the reforms of the monetary union hav…
Populism and democracy
Populism comes in so many forms, both historically and in its contemporary manifestations, that we cannot assess its relationship with democratic institutions as if it were homogeneous. In this article, we reconnect with the history of the first movements that have called themselves populists and draw on an understanding of populism as an egalitarian impulse against oligarchic tendencies, centred on anti-elitism and the defense of a democratic co…
Politics as construction of the unthinkable
This article is the English translation of a text originally published by Ernesto Laclau in French in 1981 as part of the proceedings of the colloquium Materialités Discursives held in Nanterre on 24–26 April 1980. In this text, Ernesto Laclau reflects on the subject of hegemony as a discursively constructed phenomenon. Building on research on the discursive construction of the acceptability of popular front politics in 1935 during the Seventh Co…
Le populisme au pouvoir
Le populisme au pouvoir en Italie attaque les fondements de la démocratie en opposant le peuple juste à ceux qui n'en font pas partie. Mais la démocratie peut se renouveler
Party members in a pillarised partitocracy. An empirical overview of party membership figures and profiles in Belgium
L'abolition symbolique du politique, de nécessité vertu
La récente crise de la dette dans la zone euro a conduit à des plans d’austérité présentant une série de caractéristiques communes. Au-delà des débats sur l’efficacité et les conséquences politiques de ces mesures, cet article cherche à comprendre le discours spécifique qui l’accompagne. Le contexte de crise est considéré comme un moment d’exacerbation d’un discours dominant dépolitisé. L’article pose comme hypothèse que les stratégies discursive…
How to not speak the ‘ F ‐word
The recent financial and debt crisis has resuscitated the debate about E uropean federalism – a theme that seemed not to have survived the painful constitutional adventure that ended with the ratification of the L isbon T reaty in 2009. With the adoption of significant policy and institutional measures for tightening macroeconomic and budgetary coordination (including a constitutionally enshrined debt brake), the reforms of the monetary union hav…
Les métaphores de l’austérité. Abolition et préservation de l’autonomie du champ politique dans les discours de crise en Italie et en Espagne
Cet article compare les discours de légitimation des plans d’austérité de trois chefs d’exécutif (Mario Monti, José Luis Zapatero et Mariano Rajoy) durant la crise de la zone euro. À travers une analyse des métaphores, il cherche à montrer la tension inhérente à ce discours qui, d’une part, consacre l’autonomie de la sphère économique et sa prééminence sur la sphère politique et, d’autre part, doit se plier aux exigences symboliques de la fonctio…
There is no alternative’
The Eurozone crisis and the remarkable convergence of national governments towards austerity policies draw scholars’ attention to the discursive strategies that they have used in order to legitimate their economic decisions. This article studies the common features of austerity discourse beyond national and partisan boundaries. It relies on an in-depth analysis combining lexicography and the study of metaphors in speeches of the Italian and Spani…
I want my sovereignty back!’ A comparative analysis of the populist discourses of Podemos, the 5 Star Movement, the FN and Ukip during the economic and migration crises
The multiple crises that the EU has faced over the last decade have provided fertile ground for the emergence of new political movements, often labelled as ‘anti-system’, ‘populist’ and ‘Eurosceptics’. One defining characteristic of these parties is their claim to represent ‘the people’ and their reliance on the idea of sovereignty. This article aims at examining how these populist parties have framed sovereignty in relation to the economic and m…
Left-Populism on Trial
This paper offers a critical assessment of ErnestoLaclau’s theory of populism in light of recent populist politics.Following the 2008 crisis and its fallout, Laclau’s writings haveenjoyed both practical and theoretical prominence, inspiringmovements from Podemos to La France insoumise and an energeticsection of discourse theory. Recent events, however, seemto testify to the exhaustion of his populist imaginary. Examplesinclude Podemos’ internal t…
La révolte de ceux du « bas
Sur la base du péronisme en Argentine, on peut comprendre le populisme comme une révolte du bas, selon un clivage socioculturel. Le populisme est ainsi un discours vulgaire, nativiste, avec une tendance à la personnalisation
Le populisme au pouvoir
Le populisme au pouvoir en Italie attaque les fondements de la démocratie en opposant le peuple juste à ceux qui n'en font pas partie. Mais la démocratie peut se renouveler
Le peuple et les experts
L'essor du populisme et de la technocratie peut se comprendre dans le contexte d'un déclin des représentations partisanes. Désormais, notamment du fait de l'intégration européenne, les mouvements politiques font référence à des abstractions, sans base sociale concrète
The antinomies of Ernesto Laclau
This article provides an internal assessment of Ernesto Laclau’s theory of populism. While critiques of Laclau have been made from a variety of traditions, few scholars have sought to work through the contradictions of his thought on internal terms. This article identifies some key antinomies in Laclau’s oeuvre and hints at some redemptive strategies. It starts with a short summary of Laclau’s conception of populism in contextual and conceptual f…
The normalization of left populism? The paradigmatic case of Podemos
After a hopeful electoral debut, left populism in Europe has undergone relative normalization. While the literature on new parties might regard the persistence of left populist forces as a success, we deem instead that such an outcome should be considered against the backdrop of the initial left populist hypothesis. Based on a discussion of the existing literature and ten semi-structured interviews with party members, this paper analyses the case…
Politics as construction of the unthinkable
This article is the English translation of a text originally published by Ernesto Laclau in French in 1981 as part of the proceedings of the colloquium Materialités Discursives held in Nanterre on 24–26 April 1980. In this text, Ernesto Laclau reflects on the subject of hegemony as a discursively constructed phenomenon. Building on research on the discursive construction of the acceptability of popular front politics in 1935 during the Seventh Co…
Endiguer la vague. Les ressorts du discours anti-populiste dans le journal Le Monde (2016-2017)
Cet article fait l’analyse d’un corpus comprenant l’intégralité des articles du journal Le Monde consacrés au populisme en 2016-2017. Il s’inscrit dans la littérature s’intéressant à la « populologie », cet ensemble de discours académiques, politiques et médiatiques qui prennent le populisme comme objet. Combinant la textométrie et l’étude des métaphores, il montre comment les modes de désignation et de représentation péjoratifs dont le populisme…
Populism and democracy
Populism comes in so many forms, both historically and in its contemporary manifestations, that we cannot assess its relationship with democratic institutions as if it were homogeneous. In this article, we reconnect with the history of the first movements that have called themselves populists and draw on an understanding of populism as an egalitarian impulse against oligarchic tendencies, centred on anti-elitism and the defense of a democratic co…
Political science (14 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (5 works) · Economics (4 works)