Populismo, Guerra Civil, Violencia, Crisis

Oct 16, 2018
UC Irvine


Populism is often understood to be more obfuscatory than divisive. Civil Wars are often pegged to split asunder what only seemed to serve everyone’s ends. In the first case, theory is needed to clear up otherwise baffling goings on. In the latter, theory serves to disabuse the assumption that a drama cuts everywhere the same. The aim of this workshop is to probe the fragile matrix that irrupts in the chiasmic middleground of these propositions. To do so, we bring together a group of hispanists who work on contemporary political philosophy to consider the possibilities and impasses of critical-theoretical exchange across vocabularies that differently emphasize four key terms: civil war, populism, violence, and crisis. Participants hail from diverse national contexts where populisms have rich and distinctive traditions, notably in the form of Peronism in Argentina; contemporary debates about Catalan independence and, at a national level, the rise of the political party Podemos in Spain; Chavismo in Venezuela; Trumpism in the US; and in the current election cycle in Brazil. With the cautious optimism of experimentation, we hope that discussion will center as much on how to understand what is going on out there in politics as it does on how engaging these topics in our research and critical theories tempts questions about the relation between political thinking and the theories of reality that ratify a social text.

Participants

Jorge Álvarez Yagüez

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Scherezade Pinilla

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Miguel Vazquez

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Iván Trujillo

UC Riverside, Conicyt-Chile

Matías Beverinotti

San Diego State University

Henrique Oliveira Lee

UC Irvine, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso

Organized by University and State