Teaching Fellow in Political Theory
soraya.hamdaoui@warwick.ac.uk

Advice and Feedback Hours:

Mondays 11.30-12-30 (in person or via Teams).

Tuesdays 13.00-14.00 (in person or via Teams).

Room E1. 24

- I have been a Teaching Fellow at PAIS since August 2021. Since the end of my PhD, I have focused my research activities on the opposition to populism, also known in the academic literature as 'anti-populism.'

- My work is both theoretical and empirical as I look at the different ways anti-populism is manifested. Usually, anti-populism is expressed through discourses that delegitimize populists and the 'people' that follow them/vote for them.

- I am interested in the policies seeking to 'repair' politics and society after a populist era. Populism is commonly considered a political and social disease and part of my research highlights the pathologisation of this phenomenon and the 'medecine' that politicians and civil society actors propose to 'heal' from populism. In my new paper co-authored with Rubrick Biegon, I analyse this aspect of anti-populist politics by taking US foreign policy as a case-study. https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/100/5/1857/7750272

- Another aspect of my work is to investigate the actors who adopt a more accommodative position to prevent the rise or further expansion of populism. I already explored this dimension in my paper on anti-populism during the French Gilets jaunes movement available via this link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1369148120974014

- In addition to anti-populism, I have a genuine interest in cultural policy, language and national identity, in particular when applied to the cases of Latin American countries and the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia).