Sekurytyzacja i noceryzacja jako strategie polityki populistycznej
Securatization and Nocerization as Strategies of Populist Politics

Summary/Abstract: Anxiety and harm to the people are important resources that are eagerly developed politically by populists. Playing on these affects is in fact the essence of populist politics. Populism is driven by various fears and resentments, true and/or imaginary harm. The basic thesis of the article is the claim that there are two basic categories of voters supporting contemporary populists, in a nutshell – they are scared and victims. This is combined with the fact that populism is mainly a politics of emotions, especially negative, affective politics and emotional governance. In the first part of the article, the general importance of emotions in politics was concisely discussed. In the second – a strategy of securitization, i.e. the use of various social fears by populists, with an emphasis on antimodernization anxieties and processing them into threats. In the third – the strategy of nocerization and some types of harm on which populists play. In the last point, the strategy of political retaliation driven by social anger was briefly outlined.

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