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Contextualising Politics of Populism: Images and Realities

Authors(1) :-Mritunjay Kumar Yadavendu

Populism is rooted in its social history. Contextualisation of the social history of populism is imperative as it helps us understand the rise and expansion of it in social relations. Social relations are organised around the axis of class, caste, gender, religion, region, ethnicity etc. Moreover, populism is not monolithic, but constitutive of contradictory features which are by products of asymmetrical social relations. Its narrative also does not work in a unilinear fashion, but metastasize discursively amid an array of asymmetries and generate different responses. Thus, in the present paper it is argued that to understand populism sense of its historicity and development is a must and that using a monolithic, unilinear explanation cut off from wider social realities may be misleading.

Authors and Affiliations

Mritunjay Kumar Yadavendu
Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, Bihar, India

Populism, Authoritarianism, Social History, Caste

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 3 | Issue 1 | January-February 2020
Date of Publication : 2020-02-20
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 134-142
Manuscript Number : GISRRJ203391
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

ISSN : 2582-0095

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Mritunjay Kumar Yadavendu, "Contextualising Politics of Populism: Images and Realities ", Gyanshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (GISRRJ), ISSN : 2582-0095, Volume 3, Issue 1, pp.134-142 , January-February.2020
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