International Discourses of Authoritarian Populism

Ludwig Deringer is Professor Emeritus of American and Canadian Studies at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. He obtained his doctorate from Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, and his Habilitation from the Catholic University of Eichstätt, Germany, and in 1985–1986 was an American Studies Research Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (New York) at the University of Washington and the University of Oregon, U.S.A. His research interests include Early American Literatures and Cultures, Historical and Contemporary Rhetoric, Comparative Poetry Studies, American–Canadian literary and cultural interrelations, and American–German literary and cultural interrelations. Liane Ströbel has researched and taught at the following German universities: RWTH Aachen University, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg, and Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. In her research and publications on Emmanuel Macron, Donald Trump, the Yellow Vest crisis, the Brexit referendum, and the current coronavirus crisis, she focuses on underlining the role of sensorimotor concepts in discourse analysis. The results of the synchronic analyses of embodiment and enaction are supported by diachronic studies in the field of language evolution, development, and change.

Introduction 1. Review of Research 1.1. Backgrounds of Populism Studies 1.2. Populism Studies: The Current State, Emerging Trends, and the Present VolumePart 1: Theorizing and Historicizing Populism: Perspectives from the United States, Canada, and Australia 2. Arrested Development: Globalization and the Growth of Radical Populism and Unreason: The American Case in Comparative Perspective 3. The Northern Exception: Populism in Canada in the Age of Trump, Brexit and COVID-19 4. Defining New Populisms: Causes, Characteristics and Trajectories. Australia and Beyond Part 2: Ideological Discourses and Practical Politics: Italy and Finland 5. Matteo Salvini - A Political Chameleon and a Populist par excellence? 6. Populist Discourses in Italy: The Case of Immigration 7. The Finns Party: From Catch-All Populism to Radical Anti-Immigration Discourse Part 3: Campaigning and Debating: Setting the Populist Stage in Parliament and on TV: Catalonia and the U.S. 8. "i respectant la voluntat dels ciutadans": Populism in the Catalan Crisis 9. Moderating Rhetorics of Populism: Moderators’ Encounters with Antagonistic Rhetoric in the 2020 U.S. Presidential and Vice-Presidential Debates Part 4: Media Discourses: Populism in French and Spanish Newspaper Coverage 10. The French Discourse of Populism since 2015: A Corpus-Based Study of the Uses of the Terms populisme(s)/populiste(s) in Le Monde and Le Figaro from 2015 to 2018 11. Discursive Strategies on Non-European Immigration to Spain in the Spanish Press: An Analysis of the Newspapers El País and El Mundo Part 5: (Social) Media Discourses: Populism and Anti-Populism in American and Hungarian Political Cartoons 12. Tremendously Metaphorical: A Rhetorical Analysis of Trump’s Crooked Hillary Image Macro 13. Populism on Paper: Is Viktor Orbán a Strong Leader in Hungary’s HVG Magazine? Part 6: Leftist Populism as Authoritarian Populism: The Case of Venezuela 14. The Role of the Media in an Extremely Polarized Society: The Case of Venezuelan Populism 15. Nicolás Maduro: Populist Rhetoric Without Populist Leadership Part 7: Literature as Anti-Populist Protest: Australian, Mexican American, and Indian American Life Writing 16. Challenging Populism through Literature: Anti-Populist Discourses in Behrouz Boochani, Valeria Luiselli, and Suketu Mehta 17. Conclusion: Summary of Results and Needed Research