Holliday, Shabnam J.

The legacy of subalternity and Gramsci's national-popular: populist discourse in the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran

fa parte di Third World Quarterly , 37 , 5 , London : Taylor & Francis Ltd. , May 2016 , pp. 917 - 933
Drawing on Laclau's concept of populist discourse and Gramsci's 'national-popular collective will', and using the case of Iran, this article puts forward the idea of the legacy of subalternity in the context of post-revolution governments. The concept of 'national-popular collective will' facilitates an understanding of how the popular subject is constructed and the meanings embedded in that process. It is argued that Islamic Republic elites articulate a populist discourse that constructs the 'self' (the Islamic Republic) as synonymous with 'the people'. Embedded in this discursive construction is a legacy of subalternity that goes back to the 1979 Revolution's populist discourse.
Lingua eng
Nomi [author] Holliday, Shabnam J.
Soggetti
Populismo
Islam
Laclau, Ernest
Iran
Nazionale Popolare
Populism
Islam
Laclau, Ernest
Iran
National-Popular