Dilip Gaonkar explores the resurgence of populism across the globe in the twenty-first century, starting with a definition and then covering a wide range of political and ideological positions, from progressive to conservative.

On Wednesday, January 25, 2023, Charles Taylor, Dilip Gaonkar and Craig Calhoun participate in a hybrid event discussing their recent book publication: Degenerations of Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2022). The event was cohosted with AUP’s Center for Critical Democracy Studies (CCDS).

Gaonkar’s Academy project charts the trajectory of anti-democratic thought, disguised as crowd theory, within the Western tradition. It also explores the extent to which non-Western intellectuals, including nationalist and postcolonial intellectuals in the global South, have been drawn to this long-held suspicion directed at the demos as crowd.