The Social Semiotics of Populism

Half Title\nSeries Page\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nDedication\nContents\nList of Figures\nPreface\nChapter 1: The Populist Moment\n	1.1 Populism: A concept to describe our political present\n	1.2 The challenges of populism as a political phenomenon\n	1.3 Populism studies: Historic overview\n	1.4 Towards a general theory of populism\n	1.5 About this book\nChapter 2: What Is Populism?\n	2.1 Conceptual definitions in the social sciences and humanities\n	2.2 The challenge of defining populism\n	2.3 Accounts on populism\n	2.4 On the compatibility of these accounts\nChapter 3: Social Semiotics and the Study of ‘Meaning in Action’\n	3.1 Semiotics and the ‘semiotic outlook’\n	3.2 Greimas and Eco\n	3.3 Social Semiotics and the study of ‘meaning in action’\n	3.4 Studying populism from a socio-semiotic perspective\nChapter 4: Politics as a ‘Contest over Meaning’\n	4.1 The conflictive nature of the political\n	4.2 The political as a discursive field\n	4.3 Collective identities in political discourse12\n	4.4 Politics as a ‘contest over meaning’\nChapter 5: ‘The People’ and Its ‘Other(s)’\n	5.1 The populist dichotomization of society\n	5.2 The discursive construction of ‘the people’\n	5.3 ‘The people’s other’\nChapter 6: The Populist Leader\n	6.1 The role of the leader in politics\n	6.2 The populist leader: A semiotic discussion\n	6.3 Donald Trump\n	6.4 Matteo Salvini\n	6.5 Hugo Chávez\nChapter 7: Right-Wing Populism\n	7.1 What is right-wing populism?\n	7.2 Populism and nationalism\n	7.3 Right-wing populism in Europe: Marine Le Pen and the Front National\n	7.4 Right-wing populism in the United States: Donald Trump revisited\n	7.5 Right-wing populism in South America? Jair Bolsonaro\nChapter 8: Left-Wing Populism\n	8.1 What is left-wing populism?\n	8.2 Left-wing populism, neoliberalism and globalization\n	8.3 Left-wing populism in South America: The challenge of distinguishing between populist and popular politics\n	8.4 Left-wing populism in Europe: Podemos\n	8.5 Left-wing populism in the United States? Bernie Sanders\nConclusion\nNotes\nReferences\nIndex