#31 Thea Riofrancos on populism, left and right

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🗓️ 15 December 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Thea Riofrancos joins me to discuss her review in n+1 of Chantal Mouffe's new book, 'For a Left Populism'. As well as discussing Mouffe's work we talked more generally about populism in the United States and Europe, the nature of the Trump project, and the necessity of a left populism. You can read Thea's review of Mouffe's book here: https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/populism-without-the-people/ If you would like to hear the extended version of this episode and other PTO shows, please consider becoming a supporter: www.patreon.com/join/poltheoryother

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0:05.0	The men beat on their drums. Thank you. I'm going to I'm going to
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0:26.6	and Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other.
0:50.9	My name is Alex Doherty and today I'm joined by Theoria Francos to discuss
0:55.5	populism in Europe and the United States, as well as her review of Chantanmouf's new book on the
1:01.3	question of left populism. As usual, you can listen to the podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes and
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1:40.0	Thea Ria Francos is an assistant professor of political science at Providence College.
1:45.2	Her research focuses on resource extraction, radical democracy, social movements and the left in Latin America.
1:52.0	Those themes are explored in her forthcoming book, resource radicals, from petro-nationalism to post-extractivism in Ecuador,
1:59.6	which is forthcoming from Duke University Press,
2:02.2	as well as in essays that have appeared in N-plus-1, dissent, Jacobin, amongst many other venues.
2:08.2	The interview with Thea was prompted by her review of Chantal Moose's new book for a left populism,
2:13.5	and you can find a link to her review in the description of today's episode.
2:18.8	In your recent review in N-plus- Chantal Moof's new book for Left Populism,
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