News and Events
January 2022
Work in progress: Comparing techniques to reduce networks of ethnographic codes co-occurrence (18 January 2022)
Working paper: Do inequality, perceptions and economic insecurity usher in political populism? A Pollanyian Approach (11 January 2022)
Talking head: Populism and Karl Polányi (09 January 2022)
Blog post: Polányi, regime change and the demand for populism (04 January 2022)
December 2021
Interview: Is calling someone a populist an insult? (30 December 2021)
Working paper: Comparative analysis of the historical statist development models of East Asia and Latin America (21 December 2021)
Research results: POPREBEL & FATIGUE projects: Populism & illiberalism in Europe (06 December 2021)
Blog post: Márki-Zay vs Orbán: Will the 2022 Elections be a Tale of Two Anti-Elitisms? (03 December 2021)
November 2021
Panel discussion: Populist Rebellion Against Europe? Contextualizing the current rule of law crisis in Poland in a European perspective (21 November 2021)
Video: Polish politics – POPREBEL Task 4.4 (20 November 2021)
Fellowship: 2022 short-term research fellowship at Stanford University for Piret Ehin (19 November 2021)
Blog post: Polanyi and Football (17 November 2021)
October 2021
Panel discussion: Populist Rebellion Against Europe? Contextualizing the current rule of law crisis in Poland in a European perspective (05 November 2021)
Blog post: Estonian municipal elections 2021: EKRE increases its popularity (05 November 2021)
Research results: Populist rebellion against modernity in 21st-century Eastern Europe: neo-traditionalism and neo-feudalism (26 October 2021)
Blog post: Czech elections: despite the Pandora Papers Babiš will be hard to dislodge (05 October 2021)
September 2021
Blog post: German Elections: Right-wing Populist AfD Confirms Strength in the East (28 September 2021)
July 2021
Call for papers: The Populism Seminar (21 July 2021)
June 2021
Article: The silent Russian colonisation of Crimea (29 June 2021)
Blog post: The Prince and the Bear – a fairy tale about nationalism in Romania (26 June 2021)
Blog post: Safeguarding German democracy during the pandemic (25 June 2021)
Blog post: June in Russia: magic mushrooms, dress codes and everyone’s favourite laundry (23 June 2021)
Publication: Die rechtspopulistische PEGIDA in der COVID-19-Pandemie: Virtueller Protest “für unsere Bürgerrechte” (17 June 2021)
Publication: Political Performances of Control During COVID-19: Controlling and Contesting Democracy in Germany (08 June 2021)
Article: Transatlantic Islamophobia: PEGIDA before and during the pandemic (03 June 2021)
Fatigue-Poprebel Debate: Democratic Backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe? on 07 June (02 June 2021)
May 2021
Fatigue-Poprebel Seminar Series: Populist politicisation of history and culture on 15 June 2021 (29 May 2021)
Article: How right-wing populists use food to legitimise their extreme views (21 May 2021)
April 2021
Podcast: Germany’s PEGIDA and Historical Memory on the Far Right (27 April 2021)
Interview: The CARR Interview Series: Michael Cole, CARR’s Head of Doctoral Fellows (21 April 2021)
Hackathon: Masters of Networks 5: networks of meaning between 28 and 30 April (21 April 2021)
Blog post: April in Russia: Russian woman made of salt shakes up Eurovision (19 April 2021)
Call for applications: Post-Doctoral researcher in the project UNPOP – UNpacking POPulism (09 April 2021)
March 2021
Blog post: How the German far Right appropriates ideals of non-violent resistance (25 March 2021)
Working paper: Report on radical right populism in Estonia and Latvia (24 March 2021)
Blog post: March in Russia: Zenit 36 – Covid 19 – can football help defeat the Coronavirus? (22 March 2021)
Fatigue/Poprebel Seminar Series: Populism, Nationalism and Xenophobia in Central and Eastern Europe – 23 March 2021 (16 March 2021)
Call for papers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Populism – 30 June 2021 (10 March 2021)
Podcast: Football vs the far-right in Georgia and pure fitbaw in Scotland (04 March 2021)
February 2021
Working paper: Populist rebellion against modernity in 21st-century Eastern Europe: neo-traditionalism and neo-feudalism (24 February 2021)
New Publication: Still second-order? European elections in the era of populism, extremism, and euroskepticism (11 February 2021)
January 2021
New publication: Populist tactics: Ramzan Kadyrov’s use of football as a political tool during the 2018 FIFA World Cup (21 January 2021)
Fatigue/Poprebel Seminar Series: Populism in Poland on 02 February (20 January 2021)
CfP: Post-Socialist (dis)Orders (14 January 2021)
FATIGUE and POPREBEL conference section: Explaining Right-Wing Populism in Central and Eastern Europe: Economics, Politics, (Civil) Society and Culture (08 January 2021)
CfP: Legal mobilization under democratic crisis (03 January 2021)
December 2020
Publication: Baltic State: Keeping the Faith in Turbulent Times (25 December 2020)
Newspaper Article: Are Poland’s football ultras really supporting the Women’s Strike? (10 December 2020)
Call for papers: Populism and Contemporary Democracy in Euro-pe. Between Old Problems and New Challenges (02 December 2020)
November 2020
Publication: Assessing Populism at Europe’s Margins: Pervasive, Performative, Persistent (22 November 2020)
Publication: Populism in Estonia and Slovakia: Performances, Transgressions, and Communicative Styles (22 Novemebr 2020)
Publication: A Taste of Georgia. Far Right Populism with a Unique Georgian Flavour (22 November 2020)
Newspaper Article: A century after the Trianon Treaty: perceptions of Hungary in Serbia and Croatia (18 November 2020)
Fatigue/Poprebel Seminar Series: Populism and Party Politics in Central and Eastern Europe (18 November 2020)
Blog Post: What the Pegida movement tells us about divisions within German society (16 November 2020)
Call for Papers: The XXXth Annual ASEAN Conference Nationalism & Crisis (12 November 2020)
Podcast: Studying the Far-Right in Eastern European Football (04 November 2020)
FATIGUE Seminar Series: Populism, Gender and Sexuality in Central and Eastern Europe (02 November 2020)
October 2020
Book Review: Politics, Ideology and Fandom: The Transformation of Modern Poland (26 October 2020)
Call for Applications: Third ECPR-ODIHR Winter School on Political Parties and Democracy (14 October 2020)
Blog post: In Controversial Company: Conservatives and Far Right United on German Unity Day (09 October 2020)
September 2020
Publication: Euroscepticism and the Future of Europe: Polish case (19 September 2020)
FATIGUE in media: Holy war in the city of knives: anti-semitism and football on the streets of Krakow (17 September 2020)
August 2020
Call for Papers: Youth, News and Democratic Engagement (24 August 2020)
Publication: The long shadow of the Treaty of Trianon: Hungary’s struggles with the past (20 August 2020)
Call for Contributions: Can populism enhance democracy or is it detrimental to it? (13 August 2020)
Call for Papers: Helsinki Conference on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation (01 August 2020)
July 2020
Call for Papers: Radical Right Populism, Religion and Women’s Rights (23 July 2020)
Blog post: It Started Out With A Fish, How Did It End Up Like This? (17 July 2020)
June 2020
Blog post: The “Good Change”: Polish populist presidential campaign 2015 and now (23 June 2020)
Blog post: Marching On, But Not Together: The Georgian Far Right versus Guram Kashia (18 June 2020)
Publication: Politeja: Europe of Fatherlands? (13 June 2020)
Call for papers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Populism (01 June 2020)
May 2020
Newspaper article: Pod Tatrami se stmívá: Nová slovenská vláda a snahy o omezování reprodukčních práv (22 May 2020)
Report: Fatigue versus the Corona Virus: Our Experience of the EU Hackathon (23 May 2020)
Blog post: Under lockdown, Germany’s PEGIDA goes to YouTube (07 May 2020)
Blog post: Whither dataveillance? Polish data harvest in times of pandemic (01 May 2020)
April 2020
Blog post: Why the haste? Polish presidential elections, PiS and constitutional conundrum (27 April 2020)
Blog post: Reinventing ways to preserve Easter traditions in Czechia and Romania (25 April 2020)
Blog post: The Orbán Plan (24 April 2020)
Podcast: Hungary, Covid-19 and the Rule of Law (21 April 2020)
Blog post: Polish populism in time of pandemic (20 April 2020)
Blog post: A Familiar Battle in Unfamiliar Times (16 April 2020)
Blog post: Follow the Dream or Keep the Faith? The Societal Dilemma at the Heart of Georgia’s Response to Covid-19 (06 April 2020)
Blog post: Dietary Requirements: How Migrants’ Dignity Is Challanged? (05 April 2020)
Conference: Revitalising Democracy in Times of Division—The Role of Social Sciences and Humanities (03 April 2020)
Blog post: Greece: Unequal Treatment of Migrants Before the Law (02 April 2020)
March 2020
Blog post: Germany: is the COVID-19 pandemic weakening the far right? (30 March 2020)
Blog post: The People’s Game: Why Football and Right-Wing Populism Might be the Perfect Match (23 March 2020)
Blog post: Introducing eastern Germany’s far right intellectuals (18 March 2020)
Publication: ‘Wir sind das Volk!’ Representative Claim-Making and Populist Style in the PEGIDA Movement’s Discourse (17 March 2020)
Blog post: Commemoration at the Extremes: A Field Report from Dresden 2020 (15 March 2020)
Publication: The Future of the EU Report: The Polish case by Natasza Styczyńska (13 March 2020)
Call for papers: Democracy and/or Populism: Exclusion, Equality and Disagreement (11 March 2020)
Blog post: Slovakia’s election: Populism for the rule law? (06 March 2020)
January 2020
Report: Co-operation with the DEMOS project (26 January 2020)
August 2019
Blog post: The People’s Game: Why Football and Right-Wing Populism Might be the Perfect Match (25 August 2019)
July 2019
Discussion: Roundtable discussion ‘Populist technologies and the new spectacle of finance’, UCL (03 July 2019)
June 2019
Publication: ‘Identity Politics and Right-Wing Populism in Estonia: The Case of EKRE’ (21 June 2019)
Blog post: Soft Power: Cats, Branding and the Ukrainian Far-Right (20 June 2019)
May 2019
Video: FATIGUE videos now live! A set of four short films explaining the FATIGUE project (15 May 2019)