A European Antipopulist Movement? The Emergence and Diffusion of the Italian Sardines and Finnish Herrings
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This article investigates the emergence and diffusion of antipopulist mobilizations. Resembling the iconic image depicting a school of small fish chasing a big one, the Italian 6000 Sardine and the Finnish Silakkaliike (Herrings) emerged as two movements with antipopulist claims. Although the scholarship on populism is abundant, antipopulism remains mostly neglected, especially its mobilization from below. Drawing on extensive fieldwork including a groundedtheory approach applied to twenty-seven interviews with activists from these two movements, plus the analysis of offline and online organizational documents, this study shows the mechanisms—cognitive, affective and relational—of their national and crossnational diffusion, relating them to the opportunities of the context. Exploring the internal movement dynamics and actors’ perceptions and motivations, this study also contributes to the conceptualization of antipopulism from below, defining the main characteristics and the ideological underpinnings of these two antipopulist movements
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Populism and Identification
Populism and the Principle of Majority
Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe
The New Transnational Activism
Distinctions and Articulations
Power in Movement
The Populism/Anti-Populism Divide in Western Europe
Patterns of adaptation and recontextualisation
From the streets to the web
The Spreading of the Black Lives Matter Movement Campaign
Populism as a Collective Action Master Frame for Transnational Mobilization
Emotional Dynamics of Right- and Left-wing Political Populism
Anti-populism in action
The Cross-National Diffusion of Movement Ideas
The elitist populism of the extreme right
The Return of “the People
Constructing ‘the people’ of populism
Networks of Outrage and Hope
The Finnish Parliamentary Election of 2019
Anti-populism and Populist Hype During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Populism versus Democracy
Political identities
Populist Social Movements of the Great Recession
Populism, anti-populism and crisis
Beyond populism and institutionalism
Love is over, this is going to be Turkey
A “stylistic anti-populism
Framing and social movements
Introduction
Emotions and Social Movements
Institutional conditions for diffusion
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