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Exploring Populism Through the Politics of Commemoration
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November 2021

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Europe-Asia Studies

Johana Wyss

This essay investigates whether the way in which Czech citizens relate to the commemoration of the fall of the Iron Curtain can shed light on the strong support for the currently dominant political party ANO, often labelled by political scientists as ‘centrist’ or ‘managerial’ populist. Based on ethnographic research in Czech Silesia, analysis of contemporary political discourse and follow-up fieldwork during the thirtieth anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in November 2019, the essay provides a case study of increasing political polarisation as a new form of populism emerges.

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... The working-class countermovement kicked off by neoliberal market-making policies fueled the rise of authoritarian populism in Poland (Kalb, 2009;Ost, 2006). Even in the Czech Republic, where social disintegration was comparatively lower than in other countries, a significant part of workers was left behind by the transition, and they express their anger by supporting populist politicians (Wyss, 2021). Farmers and rural agricultural workers were also among the biggest victims of neoliberalism and are the biggest supporters of authoritarian populists in the region (Malewska-Szałygin, 2021). ...

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Social classes and autocratization
Exploring Populism Through the Politics of Commemoration

Europe-Asia Studies

Johana Wyss