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    Etnonazionalismo in un'epoca di globalizzazione: la questione basca

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    Nota critica sul caso del nazionalismo basc

    L’elite: posizione e reputazione

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    Analisi posizionale e reputazionale delle élite sociali e politiche nella città di Legnan

    Costruire il «popolo». Il contributo teorico di Ernesto Laclau e le prospettive dei populismi contemporanei

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    Populism is a relevant topic in current political debates and analysis. The global financial and social crisis is fostering a reshaping of representative and liberal democracies. Particularly in Europe, as a result of this crisis of democratic politics, various authoritarian, xenophobic, radical and potentially violent movements, parties and leaders, generally labelled as «populist», are springing up in several countries. Populism is a complex and protean political phenomenon. Thus, using the label «populist » just for authoritarian and anti-democratic tendencies does not allow us to grasp all the various expressions of populism in contemporary politics, as well as the ambivalent relationship between democracy and populism, grounded on the re-definition of some key concepts for the democratic politics, like «people» and «popular sovereignty ». The authors of the article quest for the development of a non-evaluative theoretical toolkit, in order to take into account all the different nuances, varieties and ambivalences of the populist phenomenon emerging in the European political landscapes. In this effort, Ernesto Laclau’s approach to populism is considered as a substantial starting point. The article provides a critical assessment of Laclau’s approach, synthetically describing its main features and arguments, and assessing them with some of the main critics that, mainly within the post-Marxist field, have been engaged in a fruitful debate with Laclau. Lately, the article provides a first sample of the potential of the use of a laclausian approach to populism for the analysis of three cases of social and political movements that have been emerging in Italy during the last years, in order to outline a possible research agenda for the future: the «Five Star Movement»; the movement against the high speed train in Val Susa, in the Piedmont region; the movement in defence of water resources as «commons

    Baschi o spagnoli? Valori politici e repertorio di azione dei giovani spagnoli presenti nel forum sociale europeo

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    The aim of the research paper consists of joining a specific analysis of Basque condition to the case of “antiglobalist” social movement acting at European level. The research plan describes the mutual contamination between the “antiglobalist” repertoire of contentious values and the main issues of ethnic-nationalist activism. Both “anti-globalist movement” members and Basque militants use European Union as an additional arena for the mobilisation of resources that may then be put in action at the national level. Do they use a “not-violence” strategy or their contentious actions concern violent attitudes like damaging and injuring? To answer these questions the Authors have interviewed the European components of the fourth European Social Forum held in Athens in April 2006, with a particular attention to Basque delegation
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