Power to the People?
March 30
UK Alumni House
In this workshop-conference we want to reflect on the usages of the phrase “power to the people” by insurrectional movements, oppositional parties, and governments. Our aim is to compare leftwing populist regimes in Latin America, with right wing populist movements in Europe and the US, and insurrections made in the name of the people in different parts of the world. We have invitied colleagues to present case studies, comparative work, and theoretical reflections on the different meanings and usages of the term the people. The conference will take place at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. The University Press of Kentucky will publish an edited volume with the conference papers.
Power to the People?
Symposium presented by the International Studies Program
Friday, March 30, 10am - 6pm
Ballroom, King Alumni House
400 Rose St. Lexington, KY
10:00am Panel 1: The people?
Robert Jansen, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“Populist Mobilization: A New Theoretical Approach to Populism”
Paulina Ochoa, Yale University
“Power to Whom? A Processualist View of the People”.
Benjamín Arditi, National University of Mexico
“Insurgencies don’t have a plan —they are the plan. Political reformatives of vanishing mediators in 2011”
Ernest Yanarella, panel commentator, University of Kentucky
12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch on your own
1:30pm Panel 2: Power to whom?
Kenneth Roberts, Cornell University
“Populism and political representation in comparative perspective”
Carlos de la Torre, University of Kentucky
“The Contested Meanings of Insurrections, the Sovereign People, and Democracy in Ecuador, Venezuela, and Bolivia”
Nancy Postero, University of California, San Diego
“Who Speaks for the People of Plurinational Bolivia?”
Margarita López-Maya, Central University of Venezuela, and CENDES Venezuela
“People´s Power in Laws and Discourses of Hugo Chávez´ Government”
Jeffery Paige, panel commentator, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
4pm Panel 3: Exclusionary inclusions?
James Hertog and Robert Zuercher, University of Kentucky
"Media Coverage of Tea Party Claims to Represent the People"
George Michael, Carl A. Spaatz Center for Officer Education, USAF
“The Tea Party and the Extreme Right: Fellow Travelers?”
Cristóbal Rovira, University of Sussex
“Explaining the (re)emergence of populism in Europe and Latin America”
José Pedro Zuquette, the author of 'Missionary Politics in Contemporary Europe'
‘”Free the People’: The Search for ‘true democracy’ in Western Europe’s political far-right culture”
Ron Formisano, panel commentator, University of Kentucky