 The return of the political redux – globalisation after populismSimon Tormey Chapter 9 in A Modern Guide to Globalization, 2025, pp 213-231 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: The emergence of populism as a potent political force in the past decade has made us rethink the coordinates of our world and, by extension, the validity of the globalisation hypothesis that underpins many sociologically driven accounts of modernity. The logic of populism is a logic of The People and the recuperation of the lost ‘thing,’ sovereignty. Insofar as The People is defined in exclusive terms, it is a politics whose face is set against globalisation. What does this mean for globalisation and the idea of the inexorable or inevitable advance towards an interconnected, cosmopolitan future? How should we think about globalisation in light of what seem like inexorable centripetal forces – nationalism, authoritarianism, populism? And how should we think now about the relationship between economics and politics, the two key forces driving modernity? Do we need to rethink our account of the ‘primacy’ of such forces? What, in short, does globalisation look like in a world ‘after’ populism? Keywords: Populism redux; Centripetal forces; Nationalism; Authoritarianism; The people (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:21197_10 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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