Latin American Populism

Tentative Reflections for a Global Historiographical Perspective

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ID4046858
AutoresOmar Acha (0000-0002-4358-9121, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Data de publicação2013-02-10
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoNuevo mundo mundos nuevos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1626-0252 • E-ISSN: 1626-0252
EditoraOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/nuevomundo.64834
OpenAlexW2036645239
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas14

Latin American populism has usually been considered as an integrationist strategy towards the urban working classes in the context of mass democracy and import substitution industrialization. Among its features, the following ones can be identified: support from the working classes, charismatic leadership, nationalism and anti-intellectualism, anti-communism, state-centered conception of historical change, and corporatism. Recent writings influenced by the “linguistic” and “cultural” turns, despite their different social ontologies, also proclaim Latin American populisms’ peculiarity. In these cases the notion of “political style” prevails over socio-economic explanations. The available investigations are often based on national experiences or comparative approaches among two (or three) cases like Peronism and Varguism, or Cardenism. In so doing they provide a catalogue of “populisms” instead of a common understanding of the so called “Latin American” populism. This paper aims to review the very question of “Latin American populism” from a critical understanding of a global historiographical perspective. From this complex point of view it will be argued that historical analysis requires a globalizing critique of the prevailing social theory, and of the often implicit historiographical assumptions. The core of the argumentation will be focused on the Western distinction between state politics and civil society

Communism · Corporatism · Epistemology · Historiography · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · Populism · Social science · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America · Populism, Right-Wing Movements