National Populism and Borders

The Politicisation of Cross-border Mobilisations in Europe

New Horizons in European Politics series

Oscar Mazzoleni, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Research Observatory for Regional Politics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Cecilia Biancalana, Research Fellow, Department of Culture, Politics and Society, University of Turin, Italy, Andrea Pilotti, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Political Studies, University of Lausanne, Laurent Bernhard, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Political Studies, University of Lausanne, and Department of Political Science, University of Zurich, Grégoire Yerly, PhD candidate, Institute of Political Studies, University of Lausanne and Lukas Lauener, Researcher, Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences (FORS), and PhD candidate, Institute of Political Studies, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

尽管最近大量的文字ture on national populism, research has often overlooked one crucial aspect: the border. This innovative book bridges these key concepts, providing a new theoretical conceptualisation of the interplay between populism, nationalism and territorial borders.

‘This book investigates instrumentalisation of borders by national-populist parties from different interdisciplinary perspectives while focusing on a single case study, i.e. Switzerland during the COVID-19 crisis. The theoretical approach which distinguishes between borders as issues, narratives and territorial spaces of mobilisation is innovative and should be applied to other contested regions and crises. A must-read for everybody who would like to understand the intricacies of globalised border- and body politics.’
– Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University, UK