Papers by María Esperanza Casullo
Elgar Research Handbook on Populism, 2023
Left and right
Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Mar 21, 2024
The democratic productivity of populist bodily representation
Methuen Drama eBooks, 2023
Clientelism
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Aug 1, 2016
Recent Publications in Sociology - Argentina, Chile and Uruguay
Estudios digital
Este artículo hará foco en un proceso que, lenta pero persistentemente, ha ido cambiando una de l... more Este artículo hará foco en un proceso que, lenta pero persistentemente, ha ido cambiando una de las dimensiones de la competencia política nacional. Se refiere a la «porteñización » de las elites políticas que compiten electoralmente por los altos cargos nacionales, sobre todo por la presidencia, y a la pérdida de relevancia de gobernadores provinciales en la competencia. Es un factor poco comentado en la producción académica, pero es un hecho que en los años posteriores a la reforma constitucional de 1994 los candidatos y candidatas a la presidencia han tenido un perfil más homogéneamente porteño, y que ha habido una pérdida de peso político de la posición de gobernadores y gobernadoras de provincias del interior como vía de acceso a la más alta magistratura. Por lo menos a nivel de las elites políticas competencia, la política argentina parece casi inexorablemente porteñizada.
Revista Mexicana de Sociología, 2023
El presente, y seguramente el futuro, de la democracia latinoamericana está deter-minado por cómo... more El presente, y seguramente el futuro, de la democracia latinoamericana está deter-minado por cómo culmine su intersección con el fenómeno político más potente de la era: el populismo. En ninguna región del continen-te es esto más notable que en América Central. Los presidentes Rodrigo Chaves, de Costa Rica; Xiomara Castro, de Honduras, y Nayib Bukele, de El Salvador, han sido calificados como popu-listas. Si lo fuesen, que tres de siete presidentes centroamericanos sean clasificados así sugeriría la existencia de una ola populista. Este artículo responde a dos preguntas: ¿Son populistas estos presidentes? ¿Existe una ola de populismo en Centroamérica?
Estudios Digital, 2023
El camino hacia una democracia centralizada: la larga porteñización de la argentina peronista
The populist body in the age of social media: A comparative study of populist and non-populist representation
Thesis Eleven
Populist representation is the process by which a body or set of bodies become the signifier of a... more Populist representation is the process by which a body or set of bodies become the signifier of a powerful act of political transgression of the social order. We call this specific type of representative linkage ‘synecdochal representation’. In it, the leader’s body performs three key functions: it mirrors certain popular traits that are characterized as ‘low’, it displays marks of exceptionality, and it appropriates symbols of institutional power. These tasks are performed through particular ways of acting, dressing, talking, eating, and the like, in public. Social media has become a key locus for bodily self-presentation because it is used to create the appearance of intimacy and spontaneity through the distribution of ‘candid’ pictures and videos. This paper will analyze how the self-presentation of populist and non-populist leaders are established through Twitter, what images they choose to disseminate, and how they are re-signified by the audience. To do so, we will focus on th...
The populist body in the age of social media: A comparative study of populist and non-populist representation
Thesis Eleven, 2022
Populist representation is the process by which a body or set of bodies become the signifier of a... more Populist representation is the process by which a body or set of bodies become the signifier of a powerful act of political transgression of the social order. We call this specific type of representative linkage ‘synecdochal representation’. In it, the leader’s body performs three key functions: it mirrors certain popular traits that are characterized as ‘low’, it displays marks of exceptionality, and it appropriates symbols of institutional power. These tasks are performed through particular ways of acting, dressing, talking, eating, and the like, in public. Social media has become a key locus for bodily self-presentation because it is used to create the appearance of intimacy and spontaneity through the distribution of ‘candid’ pictures and videos. This paper will analyze how the self-presentation of populist and non-populist leaders are established through Twitter, what images they choose to disseminate, and how they are re-signified by the audience. To do so, we will focus on the two Latin American politicians: Cristina Fernández (with a populist style) and Mauricio Macri (with a technocratic one).
Populism as Synecdochal Representation: Understanding the Transgressive Bodily Performance of South American Presidents
Routledge, Dec 30, 2020
Rowman & Littlefield International, Jan 29, 2020
INAP, 2013
Con muy pocas excepciones, se considera que los Estados latinoamericanos no llegan a construir re... more Con muy pocas excepciones, se considera que los Estados latinoamericanos no llegan a construir relaciones auténticamente democráticas (ni 'liberales' ni 'radicales') con sus respectivas sociedades, dado que caen en la tercera y más inauténtica opción, la 'populista'. El populismo estaría caracterizado por la cooptación de la sociedad civil (entendida tanto como las ONG y los movimientos sociales) por parte del Estado a través del mantenimiento intencionado de niveles de alta desigualdad social y del uso de redes clientelares. El propósito de este artículo es analizar cada una de estas visiones y determinar hasta qué punto puede afirmarse que estas categorías ayudan a comprender la realidad política latinoamericana.
El discurso anti-género expresado como populista
UNRN Argentina, 2019
… a la Política. Los Partidos Latinoamericanos en la Era …, 2002
NACLA Report on the Americas, 2016
In Mauricio Macri's Argentina, the contradictions between "new Right" discourse and "old Right" a... more In Mauricio Macri's Argentina, the contradictions between "new Right" discourse and "old Right" actions come into focus. A fter winning a narrow victory 51-49 in a November 2015 runoff election, recently elected Argentine president Mauricio Macri assumed office in early December 2015 with observers from around the region watching closely. The coming to power of this twice-divorced, multimillionaire engineer was heralded as a momentous shift in Argentine, if not contemporary Latin American, political history. Journalists and analysts
Special Issue: Frontiers of Deliberative Democracy, 2020
Deliberation is a complex interpersonal process that involves different forms of communication. W... more Deliberation is a complex interpersonal process that involves different forms of communication. While earlier versions of deliberative theory had overly rationalistic and proceduralist views of linguistic exchange, it is now understood that deliberation involves a full range of speech cultures, which include humour, storytelling, metaphors, testimonies and others, as well as the full range of emotions including fear, anger, compassion and sympathy. This article extends these developments in deliberative scholarship by placing the role of the body as central to the practice of public deliberation. The agents of real-world deliberations are not pure consciousness but embodied beings whose corporeality carries the palimpsest of marks of their class, age, ethnicity and sexual orientation, amongst others. Bodily self-presentation informs how affect, identification and political representation are established even before words are spoken. The goal of this article is to reflect on the effect of bodily identification and representation on the process of deliberation. Drawing on populism literature, particularly the socio-cultural approach, I explore four types of bodily representation: popular, technocratic, authoritarian and populist, and the affects they might provoke in other participants in deliberations, both negative and positive. Through this article, I hope to demonstrate how the vocabulary of populism research can equip deliberative democrats to identify, confront and negotiate the politics of bodily representation.
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