Mirko Petersen

Mirko Petersen is a doctoral student at the Center for InterAmerican Studies, at Bielefeld University (Germany). He writes articles for the German NGO "Informationsstelle Militarisierung", the website "Amerika21.de" and the Argentinian Website Espacio Iniciativa.

Populism as a thought-defying cliché

To position a new hegemony, heterogeneous social demands have to be yoked together, in order to define what ‘the people’ amounts to. This is why a debate about the rarely-explained term 'populism' is overdue.

By Mirko Petersen

/ 10 Jul 2013

Populism as a thought-defying cliché

By Mirko Petersen

/ 10 Jul 2013