Alex Yates
PhDing in Bath • Researching anti-populism • 'Moral panic breeds goose-stepping, can't just stand by rubbernecking' • he/him
- So excited about the launch of our two new publications at @reacpolrn.bsky.social. For critical interventions which deal with questions of resistance and strategy in the global reactionary moment, please consider submitting your work to Red Lines. reacpol.net/red-lines/
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- It's not only Trump: The Home Office under Starmer and Cooper is tearing families apart just like ICE. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- This was a pleasure to be involved with last year. Sign up for this free(!), hybrid summer school on critical approaches to the study of reactionary politics. Deadlines for applications 15th July.
- 📣Applications for the second Reactionary Politics Summer School are open📣 The summer school provides a space to develop key skills for the research of reactionary politics. It will be hosted hybrid and attendance is free. Bursaries are also available. Sign up below! reacpol.net/summer-schoo...
- Nope! This week has been a full-throated embrace by Starmer of the racism that has been immanent in mainstream discourse on migration for decades. 'Populism' has precisely nothing to do with it.
- "Instead of popular sovereignty, for anti-populism, democratic desires should be repressed for the common good: the return of depoliticised enjoyment for all."
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- Reposted by Alex YatesOur final #PSA25 panel—held in partnership with Italian Politics SG—wraps up with a sharp discussion on populism and economic elites. Chaired by Vladimir Borden, with papers by Adam Dinsmore, @lauramontecchio.bsky.social, @alexyates2000.bsky.social, Reid Kleinberg & Lorenzo Ghiduci.
- Check out my interview with @reacpolrn.bsky.social on my paper (co-authored w/ @aurelmondon.bsky.social) which looks at how anti-populist discourses construct their own versions of 'the people' and 'the elite' for post-democratic ends.
- 📢New blog📢 Our member, @alexyates2000.bsky.social, discusses the construction of 'the elite' and 'the people' in anti-populist discourse and whether or not populism is still a useful term in political studies. Check it out below! reacpol.net/anti-populis...
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- Reposted by Alex YatesThere is no choice but to take decisive and radical action if we are to turn the tide against the dystopian reactionary tech oligarchy @jfarkas.bsky.social and I in the @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/01/26/t...
- Reposted by Alex Yates📢New blog entry: What Should ‘Pluralism’ Mean in Populism Studies? Written by Alex Yates (alexyates2000.bsky.social). Based on Yate's recent article in journalpolitics.bsky.social entitled 'Pluralising pluralism in the study of populism'. Link below👇 www.psapopulism.org/blog/researc...
- Reposted by Alex YatesAlthough anti-populism has a place for ‘the people’, it ultimately aims at the restoration of responsible elite rule: government for the people, rather than of or by them @alexyates2000.bsky.social and I in @bjpir.bsky.social
- 📝 Don't miss this new BJPIR article! '‘Get off your high horse and vote for us’: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the people' by @alexyates2000.bsky.social & @aurelmondon.bsky.social 🔓 Find the full article in #OpenAccess here:
- Reposted by Alex Yates📝 Don't miss this new BJPIR article! '‘Get off your high horse and vote for us’: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the people' by @alexyates2000.bsky.social & @aurelmondon.bsky.social 🔓 Find the full article in #OpenAccess here:
- 📣 New blog for @populismpsa.bsky.social 📣 'What Should Pluralism Mean in Populism Studies?' In this blog, I encourage populism scholars to think more critically about pluralism and its relationship with left-wing populism. Check it out below! www.psapopulism.org/blog/researc...
- You can find the original article in @journalpolitics.bsky.social which this blog is based on here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Alex Yates📝 New BJPIR article out now! '‘Get off your high horse and vote for us’: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the people' by @alexyates2000.bsky.social & @aurelmondon.bsky.social 🔓 Find the full article in #OpenAccess here:
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- 📣 New open access article w/ @aurelmondon.bsky.social in @bjpir.bsky.social 📣 We discuss how anti-populist discourse constructs a circumscribed version of 'the people', whose only proper role is to support 'good' and 'responsible' liberal elites. Check it out below!
- The Telegraph, Mail, and Express exist to shape elite opinion by claiming to speak for "the people." Starmer's "small boats week" shows how effective this right-wing media apparatus remains.
- 📣 New open access publication in @politicsjournal.bsky.social 📣 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... We about pluralism a lot in populism studies as populism’s supposed opposite, but what does pluralism actually mean? More importantly, perhaps, what do we want it to mean? 🧵
- In this article, building on the work of @gkatsambekis.bsky.social and Yannis Stavrakakis, I challenge the assumption of pluralism and populism’s incompatibility. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Yesterday, Starmer called 'populism' the politics of 'easy answers', yet said it fed off 'real concerns' people have regarding migration. Check out my piece for @jacobinmag.bsky.social on how his anti-populism marginalises the left whilst mainstreaming the far right. jacobin.com/2024/10/keir...
- Reposted by Alex YatesCritical populism studies are flourishing, and we're curating a Bluesky starter pack featuring brilliant young minds and seasoned experts shaping the field! Dive into their groundbreaking work here 👇 go.bsky.app/NEheVTjat://did:plc:ntsnt2epvkk6ppdlk7sm3bjv/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lbmyqnqzdp2i
- Unfortunately, this article I co-authored with @aurelmondon.bsky.social has only become more salient since the re-election of Donald Trump to the US presidency, and the euphemising of him as a 'populist' by media elites.
- 📰 It may sound strange for the Populism Specialist Group to share this great text by @alexyates2000.bsky.social against the very word "populism", but a critical analysis of the (mis)uses of the "p-word" is one of the most promising frontiers in our field! 👇 theconversation.com/the-word-pop...
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