ITM - Inter-Thematic group on Migrations

Seminar | UNPOP

The spaces of ‘the people’: Exploring the geographies of affective communities

Paolo Cossarini (Aalborg University)

May 17, 2022, 14h30

Room 1, CES | Alta

Moderator: Maria Elena Indelicato (CES)

 
About

In this talk I explore the connections between the spatial, the visual, and the affective dimensions of populism. How is the relationship between ‘the people’ and their spaces to be conceived? How is ‘the people’ visually represented? What affective dynamics are put in place by populism? Linking these three questions, I explore the different geo-graphical and affective imaginaries of different forms of populism, providing insights from a variety of European cases.


Bio note 

Paolo Cossarini is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Culture and Learning, Aalborg University (Denmark). He has co-edited 'Populism and Passions. Democratic Legitimacy after Austerity' (Routledge 2019), and 'The Impact of Populism on the European Institutions and Civil Society. Discourses, Practices, and Policies' (Palgrave Macmillan 2021).


The UNPOP project is coordinated by Cristiano Gianolla and Lisete Mónico and institutionaly based at the Centre for Social Studies and CINEICC - Centre for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive-Behavioural Intervention of the University of Coimbra and is funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P. (PTDC/CPO-CPO/3850/2020)


UNPOP Event Series

Populism and Emotions