Robert Samet
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 124282 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert Samet |
| PRENOMES | Robert |
| SOBRENOME | Samet |
| ASSINATURA | SAMET R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Union College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4517-2354 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Democracy
The Populist Slipper
A not-so-secret sympathy links anthropology and populism. Nothing suits populism like a misfit, and no discipline is better attuned than anthropology to the kind of misfits and slippages that incite populism. Why did it take so long for anthropologists to broach the subject? And what else might be missing along with this anthropologically shaped hole? In this introduction, we make an argument about populism as a kind of symptom. This is not neces…
Anthropology’s Democracy Problem
Popular sovereignty is the common denominator that links populism to democracy and modern politics more generally. It would be hard to dream up a more exotic political first principle or one better suited to anthropological inquiry, but with a few notable exceptions, anthropologists have been silent on the subject. This silence is one facet of a larger democracy problem that haunts the discipline. The following article attempts to recover popular…
The will to security
Populism is a notoriously unstable phenomenon. This instability has been on full display in contemporary Latin America where the progressive gains of the Pink Tide have confronted a rightwing backlash. How do we understand the sudden shift of fortunes from left to right? What tilted the balance of power in the region? One familiar answer to these questions is the exploitation by rightwing actors of tough-on-crime or mano dura rhetoric, which scap…
Crowds and Popular Power
There are strong continuities between crowd theory, which flowered during the early twentieth century, and theories of populist mobilization. Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power (1960) bridges these two literatures. Canetti gives us two relatively underappreciated ideas-the sting of command and the impulse for survival-that explain how populist movements change over time. To demonstrate how Canetti's work speaks to theories of populism, I draw on my…
While the City Sleeps
Fantasies of public order played a crucial, often-underappreciated role in shaping cities during the early twentieth century. Much has been written about the imagination of urban crime and the policing of Europe and North America, but we are only beginning to learn about how these concerns played out in the Latin American context. Lila Caimari is among the scholars who have contributed most to our knowledge of this subject. While the City Sleeps …
The Subject of Wrongs
This article draws on research in Venezuela to make a broader argument about the link between populism and injury. Specifically, it considers the role that crime victimhood plays in the rise of punitive populism or the so-called punitive turn. Under President Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan government publicly denounced tough-on-crime policies as instruments of socioeconomic oppression. Following Chávez's death, there was an abrupt change of course d…
All Populisms Are Not Created Equal
The Denouncers
Despite recent attention to the relationship between the media and populist mobilisation in Latin America, there is a misfit between the everyday practices of journalists and the theoretical tools that we have for making sense of these practices. The objective of this article is to help reorient research on populism and the press in Latin America so that it better reflects the grounded practices and autochthonous norms of the region. To that end,…
The photographer's body
Political antagonism between supporters and opponents of former president Hugo Chávez has been a defining feature of daily life in Caracas for more than a decade. Despite their different political orientations, the antagonistic poles of "chavismo" and "the opposition" share striking similarities, starting at the level of political practice. I argue that Venezuela's political polarization reflects the shared logic of populism. Through the story of…
The Anthropology of Global Productions
The photographer's body
Political antagonism between supporters and opponents of former president Hugo Chávez has been a defining feature of daily life in Caracas for more than a decade. Despite their different political orientations, the antagonistic poles of "chavismo" and "the opposition" share striking similarities, starting at the level of political practice. I argue that Venezuela's political polarization reflects the shared logic of populism. Through the story of…
The Subject of Wrongs
This article draws on research in Venezuela to make a broader argument about the link between populism and injury. Specifically, it considers the role that crime victimhood plays in the rise of punitive populism or the so-called punitive turn. Under President Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan government publicly denounced tough-on-crime policies as instruments of socioeconomic oppression. Following Chávez's death, there was an abrupt change of course d…
All Populisms Are Not Created Equal
The Denouncers
Despite recent attention to the relationship between the media and populist mobilisation in Latin America, there is a misfit between the everyday practices of journalists and the theoretical tools that we have for making sense of these practices. The objective of this article is to help reorient research on populism and the press in Latin America so that it better reflects the grounded practices and autochthonous norms of the region. To that end,…
The will to security
Populism is a notoriously unstable phenomenon. This instability has been on full display in contemporary Latin America where the progressive gains of the Pink Tide have confronted a rightwing backlash. How do we understand the sudden shift of fortunes from left to right? What tilted the balance of power in the region? One familiar answer to these questions is the exploitation by rightwing actors of tough-on-crime or mano dura rhetoric, which scap…
The Anthropology of Global Productions
The photographer's body
Political antagonism between supporters and opponents of former president Hugo Chávez has been a defining feature of daily life in Caracas for more than a decade. Despite their different political orientations, the antagonistic poles of "chavismo" and "the opposition" share striking similarities, starting at the level of political practice. I argue that Venezuela's political polarization reflects the shared logic of populism. Through the story of…
All Populisms Are Not Created Equal
The Denouncers
Despite recent attention to the relationship between the media and populist mobilisation in Latin America, there is a misfit between the everyday practices of journalists and the theoretical tools that we have for making sense of these practices. The objective of this article is to help reorient research on populism and the press in Latin America so that it better reflects the grounded practices and autochthonous norms of the region. To that end,…
While the City Sleeps
Fantasies of public order played a crucial, often-underappreciated role in shaping cities during the early twentieth century. Much has been written about the imagination of urban crime and the policing of Europe and North America, but we are only beginning to learn about how these concerns played out in the Latin American context. Lila Caimari is among the scholars who have contributed most to our knowledge of this subject. While the City Sleeps …
The Subject of Wrongs
This article draws on research in Venezuela to make a broader argument about the link between populism and injury. Specifically, it considers the role that crime victimhood plays in the rise of punitive populism or the so-called punitive turn. Under President Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan government publicly denounced tough-on-crime policies as instruments of socioeconomic oppression. Following Chávez's death, there was an abrupt change of course d…
The will to security
Populism is a notoriously unstable phenomenon. This instability has been on full display in contemporary Latin America where the progressive gains of the Pink Tide have confronted a rightwing backlash. How do we understand the sudden shift of fortunes from left to right? What tilted the balance of power in the region? One familiar answer to these questions is the exploitation by rightwing actors of tough-on-crime or mano dura rhetoric, which scap…
Crowds and Popular Power
There are strong continuities between crowd theory, which flowered during the early twentieth century, and theories of populist mobilization. Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power (1960) bridges these two literatures. Canetti gives us two relatively underappreciated ideas-the sting of command and the impulse for survival-that explain how populist movements change over time. To demonstrate how Canetti's work speaks to theories of populism, I draw on my…
Democracy
The Populist Slipper
A not-so-secret sympathy links anthropology and populism. Nothing suits populism like a misfit, and no discipline is better attuned than anthropology to the kind of misfits and slippages that incite populism. Why did it take so long for anthropologists to broach the subject? And what else might be missing along with this anthropologically shaped hole? In this introduction, we make an argument about populism as a kind of symptom. This is not neces…
Anthropology’s Democracy Problem
Popular sovereignty is the common denominator that links populism to democracy and modern politics more generally. It would be hard to dream up a more exotic political first principle or one better suited to anthropological inquiry, but with a few notable exceptions, anthropologists have been silent on the subject. This silence is one facet of a larger democracy problem that haunts the discipline. The following article attempts to recover popular…
Populism (8 obras) · Sociology (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Politics and Society in Latin America (5 obras) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (5 obras) · Political economy (4 obras) · Computer Science (3 obras) · Cultural and political discourse analysis (3 obras)