It was a genuine pleasure to host Claire in Dijon! I feel very lucky to have the chance to meet so many talented colleagues whose research sheds a new light on research topics I thought I knew well. Please check out her first open access if you are curious! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What an honour! Thank you for the kind words Andreína Victoria Hernández Ross. "Aiolfi’s interdisciplinary method, blending political theory, critical analysis and performance studies, offers a sophisticated framework, equipping scholars with tools to analyse populism’s performative dimensions."

Last reminder 📢 Only three days left to submit your abstracts for our online symposium on the visual side of populism! tinyurl.com/VisualPopuli...

Last chance to apply for our online symposium on Visual Populism. Deadline 31 July! #cfp #populism #visual #mediastudies

New Publication of Thomás Zicman de Barros @bolandeira.bsky.social @cevipof.bsky.social with @theoaiolfi.bsky.social cc @scpo-research.bsky.social

Kind reminder about the deadline at the end of July to submit abstracts for the online symposium "Visualising populist identities" on December 2nd and 3rd! Call for Paper here: tinyurl.com/VisualPopuli... Abstract submission there: tinyurl.com/VisualisingP...

📢 New article with @bolandeira.bsky.social in JCES! Can left populism embrace anti-racism & queer politics - or must it stick to patriotism to reach “the people”? We reply to Rojas-Andrés, Mazzolini & Custodi with a French case: the Mélenchon–Ruffin split.👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My physical copy of The Routledge Handbook of Populism and Foreign Policy just arrived at home. What an impressive collective work! I am very honoured to have contributed the theoretical chapter on the stylistic approach to populism.

After it took more than two years to get our first collaborative article published, it feels surreal that our second one got accepted in the same year! This couldn't have happened without the talented prose and professionalism of @bolandeira.bsky.social. I cannot wait for this one to be out!

Nothing better than wrapping up the day with good news: another article co-authored with the brilliant @theoaiolfi.bsky.social has just been accepted for publication! That’s our second in 2025 — and this one is bound to stir some debate. More soon!

📣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...

Calling all my colleagues working on the visuality of populism, this is going to be an exciting event which I am proud to co-organise with @waxwards.bsky.social. The event will be free and online, and we cannot wait to read your abstracts by the 31st of July: tinyurl.com/VisualisingP...

Announcing the online symposium "Visualising populist identities", organised by @waxwards.bsky.social and @theoaiolfi.bsky.social on Dec 2-3, 2025, with keynotes by @mecasullo.bsky.social and @benmoffitt.bsky.social Read the CfP here (tinyurl.com/VisualPopuli...) & submit your abstracts by July 31

I'm gripped by the ever-increasing bling in Trump’s Oval Office. What does it mean? Yes, Trump has bad taste. But also something else. Here’s an art historical view. 🧵 1/

Au RN, le travail sur les idées tourne toujours au ralenti Deux ans après son lancement en grande pompe, l’école théorique du Rassemblement national demeure une coquille vide. @youmnikezzouf.bsky.social @mediapart.fr www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...

Our 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.

The seventh #PSA25 panel on populism explored its histories and theories in the Global South, with rich contributions from Felipe Linden, Joanildo Burity, @kamilbernaerts.bsky.social, and Robert Upton.

Day three of #PSA25 opens with a timely and thought-provoking panel: What we talk about when we talk about populism, with insights from @k8ebrown.bsky.social, Eduardo Barbabela, and Riku Kusumoto. Chaired by @theoaiolfi.bsky.social .

We’ve won a prize! So happy to see years of hard work and dedication recognised. Huge congratulations to all past and present convenors—this one’s for all of us!

It truly was an honour to receive this award on behalf of our beloved specialist group, which has always been a unique place in academia for me. We are proud that our efforts at fostering this community for critical scholars on populism are recognised & we owe it all to the fidelity of our members!

We are very pleased to welcome the Reactionary Politics Specialist Group as a new sister group in the PSA. We look forward to collaborating on these vital and complementary areas of political research in the years ahead.

We're delighted to launch the Reactionary Politics Specialist Group of the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social at #PSA25. Keep your eyes on our feed for updates on all of our upcoming activities.

We closed the second day at #PSA25 with a fantastic panel co-organized with @journalpolitics.bsky.social on populism and gender minorities - featuring compelling talks by Sergiu Gherghina, @archibaldgustin.bsky.social, Victoria Scheyer, Marianna Griffini, & @tadeovazquez.bsky.social!

The second day of #PSA25 kicked off with another powerful panel on dislocation and its epistemics! Insightful exchanges with Olivier Ouzilou, @dbonansinga.bsky.social & @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social, @rokuppers.bsky.social, @michaelangeloanast.bsky.social and Andy Knott—deep theory, sharp debates!

The populism panels rolled on at #PSA25! We wrapped up the day with a rich discussion on innovations in performative approaches. Thought-provoking presentations by @emmyeklundh.bsky.social and Sebastián Ronderos, @wulfrunianchris.bsky.social, Renato Duarte Caetano & @dr-erdogan-c.bsky.social.

Our second panel yesterday discussed left-wing populism and its challenges, with presentations from @bolandeira.bsky.social and @theoaiolfi.bsky.social, @freddielarden.bsky.social and Hannah Shaw! #PSA25

#PSA25 in Birmingham started off with a panel that couldn’t be more fitting: “Birmingham Meets Essex”—bringing Stuart Hall and Ernesto Laclau into dialogue. Sharp talks from Gulshan Khan, Mark Wenman, Daniel Fitzpatrick & @georgenewth.bsky.social. Great energy!

Ensuite, se pose bien sûr la question de la succession de Le Pen au RN. Il ne faudra pas attendre plus de quelques mois pour que le ton passe de "l'unité face à l'injustice" aux rivalités à couteaux tirés, même si Bardella cherchera à assoir sa légitimité de dauphin légitime.

Au-delà de la politique française, cette décision aura des échos dans les cercles d'extrême droite à travers le monde. Leur argumentation se fera autour de l'atteinte à la démocratie, mobilisant les codes populistes (le peuple privé de sa candidate contre les élites judiciaires).

Décision historique qui augure d'un bouleversement dans l'équilibre des forces à l'extrême droite. Le Pen a profondément marqué le parti depuis 14 ans sous son égide, reste à voir quelle stratégie électorale sera adoptée et si l'image du parti sera écornée par cette décision.

⏰️ TIC-TOC, TIC-TOC! The deadline is tomorrow! Ready to dive into the future of emancipatory politics in Thessaloniki? Submit your abstract and be part of the conversation at our annual workshop!

⏳️ DEADLINE REMINDER! ⌛️ Only two weeks left to submit your abstracts for our workshop on populism, hegemony, and the future of emancipatory politics, featuring Judith Butler and Yannis Stavrakakis in Thessaloniki! Don’t miss out—details below! ⬇️

🥳 NEW ARTICLE! I'm very happy to share this article I co-authored with my friend @theoaiolfi.bsky.social! It’s one of the most significant contributions of my career, developed over 2 years of deep reflection and collaboration. If you have trouble accessing it, reach out—I’ll gladly send you a copy!

📝 NEW WORK OUT 1/ Excited to share our article "The Transgressive Aesthetics of Populism" (w/ @bolandeira.bsky.social) in @journalpolitics.bsky.social. We explore how populism disrupts the rules of visibility in politics, connecting aesthetics, queer theory & democracy 🧵 doi.org/10.1177/0263...

Amazing initiative I recommend wholeheartedly!

More educators and journalists need a dog whistle literacy. Finding this book (OA link below) useful. For example this explains why 'multiculturalism has failed' and 'social housing is going to the foreign born' are far right dog whistles. This ideology is being successfully destimagatized.

I am delighted to invite you all to our upcoming workshop in Thessaloniki in October 📣 We are incredibly honoured to welcome two outstanding keynote speakers: Judith Butler & Yannis Stavrakakis We look forward to reading your abstracts!

1/ 📢 CALL FOR PAPERS Join us in Thessaloniki 🇬🇷 for our 9th Annual Workshop to rethink hegemony, populism & political strategy in today’s turbulent world. Keynotes: Judith Butler & Yannis Stavrakakis 🗓 2–3 Oct 2025 📝 Submit by 14 Mar 2025 More info: www.psapopulism.org/events/2025-...

On this note, here is a thread with recent research on what normalization is and how it happens. It includes links to references, from my work and that of others. I tried to tag the authors whenever they are on here, in case you are interested in following their work. 1/8

"Submersion migratoire" : pourquoi ce sondage de BFMTV (qui proclame que "les Français donnent raison à François Bayrou") me parait particulièrement biaisé ⬇️⬇️

I'm so proud of @theoaiolfi.bsky.social! I had the pleasure of blurbing this book - it's a marvel. Not many academic books are as beautifully written as this one, and it really could not be more timely. Order it into your university libraries, read it, add it to your course reading lists!

My first book, The Populist Style, is finally out! 🎉✨ It is available in open access (direct link to the PDF: tinyurl.com/PopulistStyl...) and there is a 30% discount code (NEW30) for those who want to get a hardback copy (edin.ac/3WIe0Sr). Here's a summary of the book's key arguments: 1/25

It truly is an honour to welcome Jana and Laura in our team @populismpsa.bsky.social. I look very much forward to the next steps of our work together to advance the path of critical populism studies

What a month it's been, glad to see these paperback versions of our edited volume with Goran Petrovic Lorna in print. Still very proud of this collection of contributions and they are now accessible at a much more reasonable price!

My former PhD supervisor, the incredible @shirinmrai.bsky.social, shared with me this picture of her physical copy of my book... 😱 It still feels unreal and I cannot wait to hold it in my hands to let it sink in... Thrilled to formally share that the book will also be available in open access!

NB: It's part of a special issue of @jlanpol.bsky.social npol.bsky.social including lots of things more interesting/important & novel than my article - by @emmyeklundh.bsky.social, @theoaiolfi.bsky.social & more. Here's the introductory article & overview: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

In Salomé Ietter's article in @jpolideologies.bsky.social, she argues that the "Gilets jaunes represented a space of ingenuity and creativity [...] fostering the reconstitution of the antagonisms suppressed by the neoliberal discourse" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article in @jlanpol.bsky.social where I am thrilled to introduce an interdisciplinary methods tool: the political performance analysis protocol (PPAP) It is part of an exciting special issue on discourse theory and it is available open access! www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

🚨 | NEW ARTICLE 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐛𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 ‘𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞’ Nationalism and populism in Vlaams Belang’s discourse about farmers by Gijs Lambrechts and Benjamin De Cleen 👉 doi.org/10.1075/jlp....

First media reference to my book in @opinion.bloomberg.com about the role of transgression in the Le Pen family. The book is out this month @edinburghup.bsky.social, stay tuned! www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...