Sociologist Alan Scott will give a seminar at UNE this morning on the rise of populism and neo-nationalism in Europe, parallelling their rise in Australia.
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Professor Scott will argue that populism and neo-nationalism have become increasingly mainstream; common property across the political spectrum.
He will take two examples from two distinct phases of the emergence of right-wing populist repertoires: Phase One (1980s/90s): the populist and neo-nationalist right in Austria; Phase Two (current): the UK and Brexit. The term ‘repertoire’ is borrowed from social movement analysis to highlight the open-ended and shifting nature of populism.
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The seminar will examine the pioneering phase in which small or peripheral countries (e.g., Austria, the Netherlands, and Australia) had a disproportionate influence, and how the repertoire developed there is adopted and adapted in the course of – and after – the EU referendum in the UK in 2016.
Alan Scott has been Professor of Sociology at UNE since 2010. Between 2013 and 2016 he was Vice President (for the humanities and social sciences) of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) in Vienna. His research areas are political and organizational sociology, and social theory.
Recent and forthcoming publications include Remaking Market Society (co-authored with Antonino Palumbo, Routledge 2018), ‘The state’ in William Outhwaite and Stephan Turner (eds) The Sage Handbook of Political Sociology (2017), and ‘Leader democracy: the return of an illusion?’, Thesis Eleven (forthcoming).
The lecture is at the Oorala lecture theatre, Oorala centre, from 9.30 to 10.30am this morning, followed by morning tea in the Humanities tea room.