Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts |
2015
Abstract
This paper explores the origins of the current rise of chauvinistic and nationalistic right-wing populism across Europe. It aims to demonstrate that the current surge of often openly anti-liberal can be interpreted as a backlash against the previous two decades of neoliberal hegemony and at the same time as a direct continuation of this era.
The paper consists of two parts. The first examines neoliberalism as a particular governmental rationality (in Foucauldian sense) to explain its affinity with neoconservatism.
The second part then turns attention to the specific case of the Czech Republic and attempts to explain why neoliberalism became - at least on the ideological level - so well entrenched in this country.