Laura Chazel

• PhD Student at Sciences Po Grenoble

The year 2020 was marked by the implementation of lockdowns at the global scale to contain the COVID-19 pandemic by drastically minimizing human contacts. This public health measure was instantly described as “medieval” by several political actors but, facing the surge of the pandemic, most governments—with a few exceptions such as Sweden—opted for...

This article proposes to explore the interaction between populism and environmentalism in the discourse of populist radical left parties, through a case study of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s parties, Parti de gauche (2008–2016) and La France insoumise (from 2016). While an emerging literature primarily investigated the populist framing of populist radical...

Scholars have long mainly associated the concept of sovereignty with radical-right parties. However, the Great Recession (2007–2009) has created a breeding ground allowing the emergence/consolidation of populist movements in Europe among which left-wing parties and movements which have partly built their discourses and programs on the desire to rec...

Combining a variety of materials and a mixed methods approach, this article shows how the space of the French radical left has evolved since the 2000s. It outlines the transition from a Marxist to a post-Marxist ideology, and the creation of two new organizations - the Front de gauche (Left Front), which aimed to bring together the radical left, an...

With the COVID-19 pandemic dominating the public sphere in recent months and no aspect of social and political life left unaffected, it seems almost natural that this unprecedented public health crisis would soon be reflected on discussions around the other buzzword of our time: populism. This report aims at providing a concise yet rigorous global...

C’est en janvier 2014, dans un contexte de profonde crise économique, sociale et politique, et trois ans après le mouvement des Indignés (le 15-M), qu’une dizaine de professeurs de science politique de l’Université Complutense de Madrid et de militants venant de la gauche anticapitaliste fondent le parti politique Podemos . Ses fondateurs partent a...

This article aims to clarify the internal conflicts dividing the Spanish political party Podemos, born in January 2014, by basing itself on the theoretical production, public speeches and militant trajectories of two leaders of the party, Pablo Iglesias and Íñigo Errejón. The second Citizen Assembly of the party (known as ‘Vistalegre II’), held in...